Yarbrough: Okefenokee drag-mining controversy continues

Since we last discussed efforts to drill in our Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge for titanium dioxide so that mankind will never experience life without toothpaste whitener, nothing has changed – except a lot.What hasn’t changed?Gov. Brian Kemp; state Senate Majority Leader Steve Gooch...

Yarbrough: An opinion on Okefenokee ‘no opinion’

Dear Congressman Buddy Carter,Your appearance a couple of weeks ago before the Water, Wildlife, and Fisheries subcommittee in Washington, of which you are not a member but were allowed to question a witness panel about our Okefenokee, was, shall we say, a bit out of the ordinary.According to news...

Yarbrough: Do politicians even care about the Okefenokee Swamp?

Between the time I write, and you read this, conditions can change.Particularly in politics.But as of this writing, there seems to be little doubt that an Alabama mining company will get permission from Georgia’s Environmental Protection Division (an oxymoron) to begin extraction of minerals from...