Ron Taylor

Ron Taylor
Ron Taylor was born and raised in Georgia and worked more than 40 years at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution as a reporter and editor and as an online producer for ajc.com and AccessAtlanta. He served for a time as the newspaper's regional editor, overseeing coverage of the South. He is co-author, with Dr. Leonard Ray Teel, of INTO THE NEWSROOM: AN INTRODUCTION TO JOURNALISM and has conducted workshops in the Middle East on feature writing.
Number of posts: 80
Email address: Ron@LikeTheDew.com

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    News

    Dew Drops: Bad Dog Days for dogs

    by Ron Taylor | 0, Add your Comment | Aug 25 10
    Dew Drops: Bad Dog Days for dogs
    JoJo, a lab mix, was tied to a pickup trailer hitch and dragged.   Katie, a lab, and Petey, a Boston terrier, were stung to death by honey bees.  Grace, an Australian sheperd, was pumped full of pellets from a 12-gauge shotgun.  Fox, a sheriff's department canine officer, died of heat stroke.   An old, ailing Chihuahua was smothered to death by a pillow in Florida. Dog Days are supposed to be when dogs lie around in the shade, waiting for autumn and some relief from the heat.  The time of dreaded July and August heat has been marked as Dog Days since ...
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    News

    South will lead way with plug-in stations for electric cars

    by Ron Taylor | 0, Add your Comment | Aug 25 10
    South will lead way with plug-in stations for electric cars
    Beginning in October, Tennessee and Northwest Georgia will see the first of a new kind of filling station aimed at answering the 220-volt question of the electric car age:  Where do I plug this sucker in?   According to the Chattanooga  Times Free Press, 1,535 public battery charging stations will be scattered across the area at interstate highway rest areas and welcome centers and at malls and big-box stores. Tennessee's effort is part of its tie-in with Nissan, makers of the Leaf electric car, which is opening a lithium-ion battery plant in Smyrna, Tennessee.  Nissan plans an early roll-out of the Leaf ...
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    News

    Coyote lust on the rise

    by Ron Taylor | 1, Add your Comment | Aug 2 10
    Coyote lust on the rise
    Clanton, Alabama, residents spooked by odd-dog sightings, have discovered that at least one of them was a "coydog" -- half coyote, half dog.  Animal Control Officer Bobby Tucker, who trapped the creature, believes it was the offspring of a coyote and a German Shepherd, according to the Clanton Advertiser, and he thinks there are other "coydogs" out there. "There are a lot of elderly people in the area concerned with seeing them," Tucker told the Advertiser. "We don't know a lot about them or what they're capable of."  This particular "coydog" was euthanized after Humane Society officials decided it was ...
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    Voices

    Oil spills into Florida politics

    by Ron Taylor | 0, Add your Comment | Jul 13 10
    Oil spills into Florida politics
    The BP oil spill could decide who wins Florida's U.S. Senate race, and Gov. Charlie Crist, one of the candidates, wants to let Florida voters decide whether to ban offshore drilling forever in a constitutional amendment.  To that end, Crist has called a special session of the legislature beginning July 20 and is pushing his former Republican allies to approve the referendum. "The rightness of this is so clear, especially dealing with what we've experienced in the past 80 days or so in the Gulf of Mexico," Crist said in announcing the special session.  But Senate President Jeff ...
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    Voices

    God’s bodyguards

    by Ron Taylor | 0, Add your Comment | Jul 13 10
    God’s bodyguards
    Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal has signed a bill allowing concealed guns in church, but the folks tucking pistols into their Sunday best won't be just any believer wandering in off the street.  No, Louisiana's packing worshipers will be trained professionals, a "security force" for God, as it were. The new law authorizes people already qualified to carry concealed weapons to bring them to church and other houses of worship  if they have  passed eight hours of "tactical" training and cleared background checks.  The law also requires pastors or other leaders of houses of worship  to announce verbally or in weekly ...
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    News, Voices

    Anderson Cooper becomes N.O. tourist attraction

    by Ron Taylor | 1, Add your Comment | Jul 4 10
    Anderson Cooper becomes N.O. tourist attraction
    Tourists are flocking to Woldenberg Park in New Orleans to watch CNN's Anderson Cooper report his nightly "AC360" take on the BP oil spill.  Referring to Cooper as "the blue-eyed heartthrob of CNN fame," the Times-Picayune reported that about 40 people showed up one recent evening to watch Cooper tape his introduction for the cablecast. Cathy Parnell and her husband, from Peachtree City, Georgia, took time out from their New Orleans vacation to track down Cooper. "I knew he was here because I watch him every night and I recognized the bridge," Cathy Parnell told the Times-Picayune.  Her husband added, ...
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    News, Voices

    Bingo chaos returns to Alabama

    by Ron Taylor | 1, Add your Comment | Jul 2 10
    (Photo by Joe Songer/The Birmingham News)
    The renewed fight over electronic bingo divided judges and candidates for governor in Alabama and put 16 protesters, including two Greene County commissioners and a state senator, in jail.  The state Supreme Court cleared the way Thursday afternoon for troopers and police to begin removing 825 bingo machines from Greenetrack casino. Greene County Circuit Judge Eddie Hardaway Jr. had issued an injunction Tuesday against a move by Republican Gov. Bob Riley's anti-gambling task force to raid Greenetrack.  The Supreme Court lifted the injunction on Thursday and removed Hardaway from any further jurisdiction over the case. The Democratic nominee for governor, state Commissioner ...
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    News, Talk, Voices

    Gregg Allman gets new liver, Al Gore gets hot

    by Ron Taylor | 1, Add your Comment | Jun 25 10
    Gregg Allman gets new liver, Al Gore gets hot
    You know you're old when ... Gregg Allman returned to Jacksonville, Florida, this week not to play music in the town where the Allman Brothers Band got its start but to get a liver transplant.  Meanwhile, KnoxNews.com dubbed Al Gore the "hottest bod" on the political scene after he made the National Enquirer over rumors he had tried to seduce a Portland, Oregon, masseuse. Jacksonville.com reported that Allman was recovering nicely at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville after three and a half hours of surgery to replace his liver damaged by Hepatitis C.  The hospital released a statement quoting the hard-living ...
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    News, Politics, Voices

    Nikki Haley crushes runoff opponent like a palmetto bug

    by Ron Taylor | 1, Add your Comment | Jun 23 10
    (Photo by Tracy Glantz/The State)
    Unless Democrat Vincent Sheheen can prove he had sex with her, Republican Nikki Haley likely will become South Carolina's first woman governor.  Haley survived claims by two men that they had "inappropriate physical" relationships with the married, family-values state representative to slam her runoff opponent, U.S. Rep. Gresham Barrett, nearly 2-1.  With all but one county reporting Tuesday night, she led 65 percent to 35 percent. A poll just before the runoff election showed Haley with a 55-34 percent advantage over the Democrat's nominee for governor, State Sen. Vincent Sheheen, a Camden, South Carolina, attorney and environmentalist who worked to create ...
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    News, Voices

    More ragged comments from South Carolina politicos

    by Ron Taylor | 16, Add your Comment | Jun 17 10
    More ragged comments from South Carolina politicos
    South Carolina State Sen. Jake Knotts of "raghead" fame has declared himself a proud "redneck" and called his Republican colleagues "hypocrites" for not admitting they wouldn't be pushing for him to resign if he had called only President Barack Obama "raghead."  “They make much worse racial and religious statements in private company, some that would even make me or you blush," Knotts said in a speech from the well of the Senate. The Lexington County Republican Party voted last week to censure Knotts and asked for his resignation after Knotts referred to both President Obama and State Rep. Nikki ...
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    News, Talk

    When something crazy happens, blame the voting machines

    by Ron Taylor | 4, Add your Comment | Jun 14 10
    When something crazy happens, blame the voting machines
    Vic Rawl, the former judge and legislator from Charleston who lost by nearly 20 percentage points to Alvin Greene, the unemployed military veteran who didn't campaign, wants a recount in South Carolina's Democratic primary for U.S. Senate.  The Post and Courier reports that state Sen. Phil Leventis sent a letter to the state election commission asking that the voting machines used for the election be impounded and an audit conducted. Rawl claimed at a news conference that voters and poll workers reported "extremely unusual" incidents during the primary -- not the least, of course, was Greene winning.  Rawl contends ...
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    News, Voices

    At Florida school, the future is now

    by Ron Taylor | 0, Add your Comment | Jun 9 10
    (Photo by Douglas R. Clifford / St. Petersburg Times)
    Clearwater High School in Clearwater, Florida, is switching from traditional texbooks to e-readers and is negotiating with Amazon.com to supply all 2,100 students with Kindles by next school year.  Principal Keith Mastorides told the St. Petersburg Times he was inspired to make the switch after campus surveys revealed a desire to integrate more technology with classroom instruction. John Just, assistant superintendent for the district's management information systems, told the Times that Kindle officials said that no other high school had embarked on such an effort. Schools elsewhere have used e-readers, but mostly on a per class basis.  ...
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    News, Politics

    Haley whips guys in erotic S.C. governor’s race

    by Ron Taylor | 3, Add your Comment | Jun 9 10
    (Photo by Rich Glickstein / The State)
    Despite claims the married, family-values Republican had affairs with two political aides, state Rep. Nikki Haley screwed three men out of any likelihood of becoming governor but fell just a hair short of winning the GOP nomination without a runoff in Tuesday's South Carolina primary. However, the heat is likely to last through the June 22 runoff and probably into November, if Haley wins and goes on to the general election.  One of the men claiming an "inappropriate physical relationship" with  Haley, political blogger and consultant Will Folks, continued to sound like a spurned lover. "In fact, she could have admitted to kissing ...
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