Kemp finishing second term while eyeing future elected office

Teachers hear the morning bell ringing on the first day of school. Baseball players hear the thump of the first pitch hitting the catcher’s mitt on opening day. Public-policy folk hear the crack of the gavel slamming down to launch a new session.

Are we swapping one problem for another in Okefenokee mining controversy?

While some things may change, others seem not to change at all. I am talking about the efforts to drag-mine our Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge for titanium dioxide in order that mankind will never run short of toothpaste whitener.

It’s The Law: A resolution to keep

As we welcome 2025, many of us are making resolutions about health, finances, and personal growth. Yet there’s one resolution that often gets overlooked — getting our estate planning in order. It’s a task that nearly half of Americans continue to postpone, thinking we’ll “get to it soon enough.

‘Thank you’ for Stekoa Creek Park Cleanup

Rabun County is known for its beautiful mountain views, National Forest land, hiking trails and its many rivers, lakes and streams. Visitors and locals alike flock to our area for outdoor adventures.

There is no clowning around with Skeeter Skates

My objective has always been to provide you with information not readily available to the general public so that you can shine at your next church social or cocktail party by dropping a factoid on the group that will make them look at you in wonderment and awe.

Getting K-12 education right one of most important General Assembly tasks

After years of debate, the General Assembly in 2024 finally voted to create a new private-choice program for K-12 students, the Promise Scholarship.

Start considering your ‘Best’

2025 has arrived. Many – probably some of you reading this right now – did not have much faith in us making it, but it’s here.

Bugging Junior E. Lee about current events

You deserve the best and the best I can offer you today is Junior E. Lee. As longtime readers know and those who are recent to this column will soon learn, Junior is one of a kind.

Daddy wanted country music to actually sound country

My daddy wouldn’t like today’s country music. Well, he’d like some of it, mainly the songs that sound country and with words a man could understand. I recorded the Country Music Awards program on TV several weeks ago, but Daddy wouldn’t have cared for much of it.

Crisis pits Georgia with home-affordability problem

With 2024’s close, a quarter of the years beginning with “20” are now complete. For those of us who remember the flip from the 1900s to the 2000s, it’s hard to believe so much time has passed.