Common Core Is Now A Common Enemy of Conservatives
Tweet It is no longer polite to talk about the Common Core curriculum in many conservative circles. Just as any proposal for immigration reform is immediately labeled “amnesty”, any talk of setting a national standard so that K-12 education can be portable as students move around the country or attend colleges out of state is [...]
Read More →Remembering the Mothers and All Women
Tweet Today is Mother’s Day. To those of you who are mothers I say, “Happy Mother’s Day.” I know that I wish I was with my mother today, but I also know that my three siblings are taking care of her back home. It will be a happy day for her. However, perhaps because I [...]
Read More →The Bard’s in the ‘Burg!
Tweet Special to the Journal LEESBURG, Ga – Lee County High School’s award-winning theatre arts program will present its 3rd annual Bard-in-the-‘Burg production this week. This year’s show is Shakespeare’s purest comic romp Twelfth Night. Shows are set for Friday through Sunday, May 3-5.
Read More →The Movie Guy: The top 10 best superhero movies ever made…
Tweet Last week in preparation for the glut of superhero movies heading our way, I brought you the top 10 worst and this week I’m bringing you the top 10 best superhero movies ever made. So bear in mind that these 10 are the best ever made, in my humble opinion, and are in no [...]
Read More →Chambliss, Isakson, Kingston Urge Obama to Fund Savannah Harbor Send letter calling on president to fulfill promises
Tweet Special to the Journal WASHINGTON –U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-GA), U.S. Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-GA), and U.S. Rep. Jack Kingston (GA-1) strongly urged President Obama in a letter today to fulfill his “We Can’t Wait” promise and include legislative language for the Savannah Harbor Expansion Project (SHEP) authorization increase in his budget amendment to [...]
Read More →Annual Giant Community Yard Sale Set for Saturday
Tweet Special to the Journal Leesburg, Ga -It’s time once again to clean out the closets and make some fast cash or to pick up some remarkable bargains. Leesburg’s Annual Giant Community Yard Sale is Saturday, May 4, from 7 a.m. to noon at Lee County High School. Individuals, families, and groups are invited to [...]
Read More →Isakson, Chambliss Send Letter Criticizing FAA’s Imprudent Decision to Furlough Air Traffic Controllers, Create Delays for Passengers
Tweet Special to the Journal WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., and Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., on Friday strongly urged Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Administrator Michael Huerta to reconsider his plan to furlough air traffic controllers and reduce staffing in towers to cut costs as a result of the Budget Control Act of 2011. Such [...]
Read More →Next Week is the Anniversary of Georgia’s Spring Tornadoes: Are You Ready for the Next Big Disaster?
Tweet Special to the Journal When a series of tornadoes raked across Georgia in April 2011, Nanette Chastine found out quickly how crucial emergency preparedness can be. On the night of April 27, severe weather sent the Griffin resident scrambling into the spare bathroom with her daughter, kitten and dog – armed with blankets and [...]
Read More →A Week We Would Like To Forget
Tweet Last week was one that many will want to forget, but few will. It began Monday with a terrorist attack on the Boston Marathon. As this column is being written Friday morning, it is ending with a Policeman at MIT and one suspect dead and a Boston suburb shut down searching for a suspect [...]
Read More →Master Gardeners, Key Club, Kiwanis improve Arts Council grounds
Tweet Written by David Shivers Some two-and-a-half hours of intense labor by dedicated volunteers transformed a grass-strewn corridor on the exterior of the Albany Arts Council building on North Jackson Street into a landscaped, mulched butterfly garden spot on Saturday morning, April 20.
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