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Think low-tech when battling the mosquito this summer

All the rain that has poured down on us in the Atlanta area this year may produce something besides greenery. We may see one of the worst mosquito seasons in years. Now before you jump in your car to get more high-powered spray, or buy a bug zapper, hold on. There might be another way to combat t

All Republican Patriots Must Choose Party or Principle

“Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party.” – Winston Churchill No one who feels allegiance to a political party wants to have to choose between party and principle. But sometimes history compels people to make that ch

Don’t look now, but the future has arrived!

First of all, you need to understand I’m a low-tech sort of guy. Back when I first started earning money playing with words, I did my work on a typewriter. That’s right, one of those little contraptions that had keys you pounded and a paper carriage that you tossed back into position after typin

A Night at the NC Legislature

Talk about fun entertainment on a beautiful summer evening with mild temperatures and you probably wouldn’t suggest sitting in the visitors gallery of the North Carolina House of Representatives. Well, reconsider. June 14, was a night of drama, protest, and shouting epithets which brought home

The Duty to Hate Hillary

A letter in the most recent AARP Magazine got me thinking. The previous issue of the magazine had a piece titled "Leading Ladies," featuring several older actresses - Sharon Stone, Jane Fonda, and Alfre Woodard - who have done well despite Hollywood's long-standing ageism. The letter-write

Downtown ... no finer place, for sure

If you’ve had a notion in recent years that Atlanta is getting crowded “inside the Perimeter,” you’re right. Some new research shows that the core cities in America’s largest metropolitan areas have been growing faster than the suburbs outside those cities, which the experts regard as a si

Why Georgia doesn’t need Karen Handel

[caption id="attachment_10544" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Republican gubernatorial candidates: former U.S. Rep. Nathan Deal (left), and, former Georgia Secretary of State Karen Handel (right). Photo: John Carrington, Savannah Morning News"][/caption] The highest public office in Geor

Who do you think you are?

A revolution in publishing has made self-published books affordable and easy to produce. Many writers interested to record their memoirs may wonder where to begin with this technology. I used the self-publishing arm of Amazon, www.createspace.com. Here are some issues to address in the process:

Bingo, it's a labor issue

Reverend Al Sharpton planned to join a march in Montgomery, Alabama, on Saturday in support of electronic bingo. Reverend Jesse Jackson announced Wednesday that he also will be there. Civil rights pioneer and former Tuskegee Mayor Johnny Ford said the march will be to show support for workers laid

When a picture leaves you seeing red

Most of you know the feeling. You could lose a few pounds and you wish your clothes fit better, but you feel pretty good – still young, still vibrant. And then you see a recent photo. It’s like that. For a native son and life-long southerner (excepting two years in Cleveland, OH), the Distres

Hosea Williams, a fun-guy icon

[caption id="attachment_18007" align="alignright" width="233" caption="Hosea Williams in Foryth County."][/caption] A gravel-voiced civil rights icon gone 11 years is drawing new attention nowadays, which got me to remembering my experiences with him during my time as an AJC reporter. When I

Ode to a Confederate Guy You Never Heard Of

My friend Keith Graham seems to have stepped on little anthill of online commentary with his observations about the odd tenacity of the Confederate battle flag to decorate certain drowsy precincts of Georgia. Who knew that our presidents from Wilson to Obama were sending wreaths to the Confederate M

Clark Rockefeller Unmasked

When I moved to Boston’s Beacon Hill during my sabbatical year 2007-08, I knew the Cheers jingle “where everyone knows your name,” but I never imagined that by the end of the year, my jingle would be “where everyone knows your name, but it might not be the real one. “ Clark Rockefeller

Historic win for voting rights in Virginia

Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell (R) unveiled a plan this week to automatically restore voting rights to people convicted of nonviolent felonies. The move won praise from civil rights advocates who have long called for reform in the state, one of several with unusually harsh felon disenfranchisement l

Is It 1950 or what?

During the slavery era in the U.S. the affluent white population was naturally of two minds about the black population, being as how a large one brought high profits but also a certain vulnerability. The dictum, We are many, they are few applied no less then than now, and then, as now, the 1% gets u

Delicate Matters

When my boys were growing up they learned rude words from their classmates (school is an education) and naturally I tried to filter out the most offensive. When a four letter word slipped out of their mouths I would always say “Please don’t say that.” After I explained that their meaning was

Valhalla

Without fanfare the bass player, Bob Keller, stepped to a microphone and introduced the first song. Here’s something by Bob Dylan.” The wall of sound unleashed from those speakers was unlike anything we’d ever heard. Maybe like a two by four upside the head. I swear the wind from the

The Other Side of the Tracks

Our house was only 10 yards from the railroad tracks and 50 yards from the end of the train station. It was a small rented cottage, one of five allocated to families of track workers. We had waited several years before the two bedroom cottage became available. The bedrooms were small and I was alloc

I Wish "We're the Greatest!" Weren't Such Good Politics

Let me first try to make sure I'm not misunderstood. I am not saying that I wish the Democrats had done anything different at the convention. As many observed, the Democrats were smart to occupy the upbeat, patriotic, American-exceptionalist, morning-in-America space that Trump's GOP abandone

One Hot Summer

Eighty-five years ago this month, during another long, hot summer, Clarence Darrow and Dudley Field Malone, two of America’s foremost civil-libertarian lawyers, defended John Scopes, the high school football coach tried in Dayton, Tennessee, for teaching evolution, in violation of the Butler Act.

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