Stone: Make America Goofy Again

Back in Chicago, we don’t make bicycles anymore. It’s all human relations now. The eggheads sit around trying to figure out new ways for everybody to be happy.

Rich: Courtesy and kindness are ageless

It was the summer before THAT summer, when life as we had known and worn it like a comfortable cloak around our shoulders, hit a brick wall at 100 mph.Fear of catching the potent virus, people stopped going to work or church.

Yarbrough: Random thoughts on random subjects

For want of a nail, the shoe was lost. For want of a shoe, the horse was lost.And you know the rest.That familiar proverb is my way of saying that a critical fact got botched, for lack of a better word.

Letter to the Editor: Why didn’t Trump deliver during first term?

Dear Editor,Considering the prospect of a second Trump presidency, it is important to reflect on his first term. While he now criticizes the Harris-Walz ticket and makes grand promises, we should ask why he didn’t deliver the first time.Trump chanted, “Build the wall!

Letter to the Editor: Emperor Nero 2.0

Dear Editor,Popular legend has it that in A.D. 64, while a great fire was effectively destroying the city of Rome, Emperor Nero played his fiddle and demonstrated a total lack of concern for his people and the Empire.

Letter to the Editor: Last-minute meeting to beat SPLOST deadline

Dear Editor,It seems the county kind of got behind the power curve on the steps needed to place the Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax (SPLOST) before the voters in November for approval to continue to collect this one-cent sales tax for another six years.

Dudley: A yen for international stock market management

This isn’t as important as the Olympics, but some pals have been asking me, “What is the yen carry trade?” and " Why did it affect world equity and currency markets so dramatically last week?

Rich: A childhood without books

Please forgive me if you’ve heard this story on the page or in person. I tend to tell it two or three times a year.Because I cannot get my head around such nonsense.People often approach me, wanting to write a book. Only twice in 20 years has anyone ever inquired about writing a newspaper column.

Letter to the Editor: Kemp unfairly attacked by Trump

Dear Editor,This is an open letter to Governor Brian Kemp following former President Trump’s August 3rd rally in Atlanta.Governor Kemp, You’ve been a good governor of Georgia.

Letter to the Editor: Support for existing courthouse

Dear Editor, I have no idea what the BOC was thinking when they wasted $1.1 million on plans to build a horse barn judicial system 1.7 miles away. Away from the heartbeat of Greensboro, where you want people to come and have fun spending money in the county. The decision should have been easy.1.