Welcome to the Official Site of Legendary Columnist Dick Yarbrough
For the past 22 years, Dick Yarbrough has gained a large following with his syndicated newspaper column which reaches some 600,000 households and more than 1.3 million readers each week throughout Georgia, making him the most widely-syndicated local columnist in the state. The Georgia Press Association has named his column “Most Humorous” four times in nine years. Evidently he is only funny every other year. Politicians don’t think he is very funny at all.
He regularly skewers a number of targets, including self-important politicians of both parties, the lizard-loafered lobbyists that feed them, the national news media, people who criticize Georgia but move here anyway because we don’t have snow ten months a year and anybody that talks on a cell phone in the checkout lane. And he says he has just scratched the surface.
Yarbrough is known as a strong advocate for improving public education. He also continues to push for stronger ethics legislation in the state. In 2012, he received the Democracy Award from Common Cause Georgia. “Dick Yarbrough has been a staunch supporter and advocate of meaningful ethics reform for our state and has humorously and effectively kept the issue alive in the hearts and minds of Georgia citizens,” said William Perry, Executive Director of Common Cause Georgia.
Writing a column is just one of Yarbrough’s talents. The Georgia native is an author of two books, a sought-after speaker and an artist, with one of his paintings hanging in the State Capitol.
Dick’s Artwork
Dick's talents cover more than just the written word -- he is also a talented artist. His first art exhibition was July 1, 2011 at the Earl Smith Strand Theatre in Marietta, Georgia. Please enjoy these samples of his artwork [Click here to see more!]:
.Most Recent Columns
January 1, 2023: Sharing Some Advice For The New Year
KNOCK! KNOCK! KNOCK! “Who’s there?” “It’s 2023. May I come in? It’s a bit cold out here. All I’m wearing is a sash and some Huggies!” “Please do. I’m glad to see you but aren’t you supposed to be getting ready for, well, uh, the new year?” “That is what I wanted to talk to you about. Before he left, 2022 told me that one of the first … [...read more]
December 25, 2022: Junior E. Lee Takes A Look at Y2KXXIII
The New Year is upon us. 2023. It seems like only yesterday that we were up at midnight on New Year’s Eve, 1999, wringing our hands at what catastrophes might await us at the beginning of Y2K – the year 2000. It was thought there was a problem in the coding of computerized systems that would create chaos in computers and computer networks … [...read more]
December 18, 2022: A Tribute to The Beloved Woman Who Shared My Name
Two years this week, I told you a final goodbye. In some respects, you were not the woman I knew and loved that left me. The highly organized mind contained within an extremely kind and giving person had been drained of its memory and there were debilitating health issues those last couple of years. But they cannot erase the good memories. I … [...read more]