Unless he turns out to be the Brett Favre of local elected officials, Mayor Jim Wetherington’s announcement left no room for ambiguity: It will be one term and out. Unlike the perennially retiring and unretiring NFL quarterback, Wetherington seems to have made up his mind.
Lots of high-level things involving prominent and important people are going on with regard to the Chattahoochee River. Governors and members of Congress are arguing and negotiating and maneuvering, and courts are ruling. Millions of dollars are being spent.
Back in the 1950s and ‘60s, a young Atlanta Constitution sports writer would sometimes bypass the special press entrances to sports arenas, choosing instead to climb to the press box through the crowd, portable typewriter in hand. He was often hailed and as often heckled, but his face and byline were so familiar, especially in the coliseums of SEC football, that he seldom went unrecognized.
@CO 44Editorial Drop Cap:If this approach doesn’t work, maybe the next one will involve pointing out that the judge didn’t say “Simon says.”
If this approach doesn’t work, maybe the next one will involve pointing out that the judge didn’t say “Simon says.”
@CO 44Editorial Drop Cap:Barack Obama might one day prove himself a worthy recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. He also might leave a legacy of failure and ineptitude that spotlights Friday’s decision to extend him that honor as the most grievous and embarrassing misjudgment in the history of the world’s most distinguished humanitarian award.
My native state has a gift, unparalleled in either contemporary America or remembered history, for making a public and collective fool of itself in headlines, Web hits and comedians’ monologues.
You can be a tell-it-like-it-is newspaperman or you can live a fruitful life in a small town.
The late Adlai Stevenson of Illinois, a political leader of surpassing eloquence, once introduced John F. Kennedy, the man who defeated him for the 1960 Democratic presidential nomination, this way: "Do you remember that in classical times when Cicero had finished speaking, the people said, 'How well he spoke,' but when Demosthenes had finished speaking, they said, 'Let us march'?"
Baseball's a great way to see the heartland of America. How else would a traveler learn the history of the Precious Moments Chapel, which artist Samuel Butcher built under divine inspiration in Carthage, Mo., a decade after finding a market for his greeting cards and figurines of impossibly cute tots with poolsized eyes?
With Congress' annual August recess looming, neither the Senate nor the House will be meeting President Barack Obama's deadline for votes on health-care reform before they leave town. And that's just as well.
The clock is ticking on President Obama's health care reform plan, and not necessarily in his favor. The political inertia in this session of Congress regarding any health care reform bill is evident and bipartisan.
As President Obama struggles to sell his massive reorganization the health care industry, it's important to understand what is driving him. This is a classic liberal vs. conservative battle, pitting government money for the poor against rugged individual competition which the winners get more security than the losers.
All Democrats with an IQ above room temperature understand the gigantic stakes involved in the success - or failure - of President Barack Obama's commitment to overhaul the nation's health care system. Those stakes include nothing less than the political fate, fortune and future of this still-new Democratic administration and, quite possibly, the continued survival of Democratic majorities in the Congress.
Does your family have a spare $1,600 to throw away? Most families in Georgia would answer that question with a resounding “no,” but $1,600 is the projected cost per family that will result if the energy and climate change bill passed by the House of Representatives makes it way through the U.S. Senate and becomes law.
Several Christian conservative leaders are doing some serious fretting about a pending hate crimes bill. Congressional Democrats have proposed adding sexual orientation and gender identity to the list of federally prosecuted hate crimes. The bill carries the name of Matthew Shepard, the 21-year-old Wyoming college student who was murdered 10 years ago because he was gay.
The stunning collapse in public opinion for President Obama’s health care plan demonstrates a weakness in the president’s overall vision. According to a new Gallup Poll, 55 percent of Americans now believe Obama is doing a poor job on health care reform, his signature issue. The main reason for this is that few understand what the deuce is going on. I analyze the news for a living, and I can’t explain what the House bill would do. It’s more than a thousand pages long, for crying out loud, and reading it could cause your head to explode.
Thursday morning two noteworthy events, both involving military men, took place here in Columbus.
For generations we did without cellular telephones. The earth continued to rotate on its axis, and human society somehow survived.
I am a great fan of presidents and presidencies, and have been since I took a class called “The American President” as an undergraduate at the University of Missouri in the early 1980s.
