From DeKalb County Schools…Some Good News
Tweet Often the best lessons are found when on a journey to an unrelated event. Such was the case last Friday evening when I visited WXIA in Atlanta to discuss Sequestration on their 11pm Newscast. The format is now somewhat familiar. I was to be asked a couple of questions from anchor Melissa Long as [...]
Read More →Pro Life Movement Is Moving Off Track
Tweet There was a time, not so long ago in this state, when declaring you were “pro-life” was generally understood and accepted both within the pro-life movement and those who oppose it. There were, inevitably, uncomfortable situations where those who were pro-life were willing to accept that parents, would-be parents, and higher powers would take [...]
Read More →Human Costs Involved In Budget Cuts
Tweet I “grew up” working in a hardware store in Fayetteville Georgia, a store our family bought just after I turned 13. Before that time, my father was a federal government employee. He spent the first 22 years of his professional life as an internal auditor, investigating and preparing fraud cases against those who chose [...]
Read More →Replace Section V of the Voting Rights Act with A Better Redistricting Process
Tweet Section V of the 1965 Voting Rights Act was argued before the US Supreme Court this week, the sticking point in an Alabama case that will likely see the portion of the law altered or struck down. Section V only applies to “state and local governments with a history of voter disenfranchisement”. As such, [...]
Read More →Civic Involvement Leads To Win For Chickens
Tweet Many of us no longer live in a part of the state that we can call rural. More than half of the state’s population now lives in the extended metro Atlanta area. Add in those that live in Georgia’s other cities and those that live on Georgia’s farms and forests are now a distinct [...]
Read More →Sequestration More Bark Than Bite
Tweet This week’s news out of Washington will be filled with talk of “Sequestration”. It is the latest manufactured crisis du jour to ensure Americans who pay little attention to politics and national finances have a headline term to add to their vocabulary to affirm to themselves that they follow politics.
Read More →Ethics Reform Must Include Official’s Accountability
Tweet As the 2013 General Assembly begins the heavy lifting portion of the session, we will begin to see bills that have been debated in public (and many that have only been concepts behind the scenes) begin to take their final form. One that has dominated much of the headlines, but has still yet to [...]
Read More →Who, and What, Is Conservative?
Tweet National Journal has released its rankings of the most conservative members of the U.S. House of Representatives, and Georgia’s Austin Scott was ranked 2nd on this list for 2012. Given that their number one choice, Todd Akin, is no longer serving due to his failed attempt to become a Senator, Scott can be said [...]
Read More →Blueberries and Venture Capital
Tweet Sometimes, quite by accident, two columns written about two completely different topics have the ability to tie concepts together that begin to show a pattern of problems and/or opportunities within our political framework. The commentary that follows these writings on our blog over at PeachPundit.com often helps to further develop issues, but also can [...]
Read More →State Must Make Long Term Commitment to Troubled School Systems
Tweet On Thursday morning, the State board of Education is scheduled to meet to discuss the fate of the current DeKalb County school board. The state board will consider whether the local board, governing a school system that seems likely to lose its accreditation from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, should be removed [...]
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