It’s all your fault
Tweet Times are tough. I get that. In fact, I’m struggling as much as anyone else right now, so I understand that. Your struggling though? Yeah, that’s all your fault. OK, there are some reading this who genuinely did things right and are still struggling. For most of us? It’s our fault. Please note my [...]
Read More →ArtPark Opens; Four Dead
Tweet This is #NVR once again writing from the forefront of cultural growth in Albany, GA. First, I have to apologize: no deaths will be mentioned in the story below. The ArtPark opened to the great delight of all involved, no one died and great fun was had by all. So let’s just call it… [...]
Read More →40 Days at the Capitol- Installment 10
Tweet To our readers: State Senator Buddy Carter (R- Pooler) will be reporting each week during the Legislative Session. The session began January 14, 2013 and is expected to last until the latter days of March.
Read More →General Assembly 2013: Historically Unremarkable
Tweet The most remarkable thing about this year’s session of the Georgia General Assembly was the unremarkable nature of the event. There were few public battles. Most clashes of personality and ego occurred behind closed doors. Instead of being remembered for what was done during the 40 days that ended last Thursday evening, it’s highly [...]
Read More →We’ve all been wrong
Tweet I’m here to say publicly that we’ve all been very, very wrong. The reality is that the City of Albany really is getting it right. I’m not talking about downtown here either, but the city as a whole. I know, I was shocked too, but over the weekend I learned much about the overall [...]
Read More →Good Friday
Tweet The following is a column written previously for this same day. It’s what I believed then, and it’s what I believe now. May you and yours have a Happy Easter. Today is Good Friday, beginning the three holiest days of the Christian year. For those of us who are Christian, it represents everything significant [...]
Read More →How do they do that?
Tweet Kids are amazing. They are capable of things that we, as supposedly more developed adults, can’t even begin to accomplish. I’d even go so far as to say they’re downright superhuman. They’re tougher, smarter, and all around superior to we alleged grown ups.
Read More →What They’re Saying Is Not What They’re Doing
Tweet In politics, too many are judged on what they say. Too often, there is quite a distance between what politicians tell us they will do, and what is actually done. Sometimes that distance can be measured in days – quite literally. Forty days, to be exact.
Read More →Politics as usual means protection for large corporation
Tweet There’s a trick in politics for getting something to pass through without much hassle. You attach it to something relatively noncontroversial and then just be really, really quiet about it. That’s what happened with something opponents are calling the Monsanto Protection Act. It was hidden deep within the last continuing resolution. President Obama signed [...]
Read More →Georgia Considers Call For Limited Constitutional Convention
Tweet The Constitution is not an easy document to amend. This is by design. It is, after all, the very foundation of our system of government. Foundations are mostly permanent, as they are what give the structural integrity to whatever is built upon them. Changes should be well thought out, and only done when absolutely [...]
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