Proposed Wastewater Permit
Tweet Last week, the Environmental Protection Division (EPD) held a public hearing to solicit comments on the draft wastewater permit for King American Finishing (KAF) located in Screven County. The hearing was held at the Effingham County High School in Springfield and, although I was not there, I understand it was well attended. I also [...]
Read More →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 →Karen Handel Set For Pro-Life Candidacy
Tweet As Georgia media outlets were breaking the news that Jack Kingston was moving his “unofficial” candidacy for the US Senate into a formal and official campaign last week, Karen Handel was sending out an email reminding Georgia voters that she too is officially an unofficial candidate. In the note, she said the following:
Read More →VA Benefits
Tweet It was recently announced that the U. S. Department of Veterans Affairs will be implementing an initiative to expedite benefit compensations claims decisions for veterans who have waited one year or longer for things like medical, educational reimbursement, help with alcohol or substance abuse, even burial benefits.
Read More →GOAL Winner
Tweet Albany Tech student Aamir Greene will be the state spokesman for technical education after winning the prestigious GOAL award. What a great choice!
Read More →Redfish can’t jump
Tweet Some of my fondest memories of growing up in coastal Georgia are of going fishing with my dad. While I enjoyed fresh water fishing, my favorite was salt water. I remember studying the tide charts in the paper and hoping that the right tide would coincide with his days off.
Read More →So You Say You’re Angry? So What.
Tweet It was not so long ago when anger was a pejorative in politics. Those trying to marginalize the Tea Party as it originally organized referred to them as an “Angry Mob”. Without much sense of irony, this angered many that were part of the protests. But the anger wasn’t the kind of blinding anger [...]
Read More →Boston
Tweet In the aftermath of 9/11, we hoped and prayed Americans would never have to endure another terrorist attack on our soil.
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 →It feels like 2001
Tweet A terrorist attack, a young baby in the house, and now a deadly toxin sent to a member of Congress. Am I talking about this week, or am I talking about 2001? Maybe a bit of both.
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