Sabrina’s Joyful Dinner
Tweet If you belong to a Sunday school class, I hope it’s like mine. I can comfortably say it’s an imperfect but sincere group of men and women; very real. What’s makes it work is that we take that as a given, and move on from there. I’m a member of the ‘Journey’ [...]
Read More →Wings and things
Tweet Don’t you just love creative business promotions? I remember the opening of a new strip mall when I was a boy and a helicopter dropped ping pong balls with numbers on them. The numbers were prize codes that were awarded by the merchants in the mall. Some businesses just hand out free [...]
Read More →Georgia receives failing ethics grade in report from the Center for Public Integrity
Tweet Written by Liz Coyle In a study released today, Georgia ranks last in the nation on laws that ensure open government and protect citizens from public corruption. Conducted by the non-profit Center for Public Integrity (CPI) along with Global Integrity and Public Radio International, the report gives Georgia a grade of 49 [...]
Read More →Sometimes, you’ve just got to pick a fight
Tweet I was speaking with someone by phone who wants to try and make a positive change here in Albany. She said to me that she didn’t want to stir up anything and that she thought she could make the local officials change their minds about something through positive discussion. I applaud [...]
Read More →Gordy Gruhl 1,000 Wins Tribute
Tweet Any time a coach reaches a win total that ends with two zeroes is a significant accomplishment. However, there are not many coaches who have three zeroes in the last three digits of their career win total. Deerfield-Windsor basketball coach Gordy Gruhl become one of the few high school coaches in Georgia history [...]
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A Parenting Rhapsody
Tweet It was a rare attempt at subterfuge and it failed miserably … it’s impossible to sneak anything past a 4-year-old, but you can’t blame a Daddy for trying. I wanted to listen to MY music for a change. It was just a 10-minute drive to Wal-Mart, and I figured we’d be in [...]
Read More →WhatCha-Say?
Tweet What’s entertaining is the number of real estate signs the city overlooks every day. The cities passing the sign ordinances can’t even clean up their own property….yet they want to manage yours. HOW DO YOU ALL feel about the new proposed airport terminal? I really don’t know myself. I still hate [...]
Read More →Vintage Albany: Turner Field WWII POW Camp
Tweet The United States had control of around five million POW’s by the end of WWII. Of that number about 400,000 German POW’s were housed within the US. Most of the prisoners were spread out across the south. It was easier to house them in the south because of the milder weather; also America [...]
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