2018 Columns

Dear Hadley Ann Yarbrough and Harper Grace Yarbrough: Welcome to the world!  We were not expecting you so soon.  I was told your arrival was set for late May or early June but, of course, I am always the last to know anything in this family as you will soon find out.  Obviously, no one checked with you because you decided to come eleven weeks early.  Just … [Read more...] about March 26, 2018: To Hadley Ann And Harper Grace: Welcome To The World

Let me say upfront that Sen. David Shafer, R-Gwinnett County, who is running for lieutenant governor, and I haven’t been the closest of buddies. I didn’t like the way he and his cohort, Sen. William Ligon, R-Glynn County, gutted an otherwise much-needed adoption bill last year with some end-of-the-session shenanigans, holding the bill hostage in a clumsy political effort to … [Read more...] about March 19, 2018: Sen. David Shafer Needs To Quickly Resolve Charges Against Him

For a number of years, I supervised a staff in Washington – first with BellSouth Corporation and then with Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games – and following that had an office in New York as member of the board of a large public relations firm. That meant almost weekly trips on Delta Air Lines, many times going up on the early morning redeye flight and back late the same … [Read more...] about March 12, 2018: Delta Execs Can’t Seem to Navigate Turbulence of External Environment

I try to live my life guided by two simple rules:  One, never eat soup with a fork and, two, try not to disagree with the county sheriff.  The first one will stain your tie something awful.  The latter will likely get you in a heap of trouble if you roll through their county acting like you own the place. So far, I am doing okay with the soup thing but it looks … [Read more...] about March 5, 2018: Three Young People Show the Positive Side Of Criminal Justice Reform

I am told there are some of you out there under the impression that my columns are actually written by an orangutan.  Not true.  There are some things even an orangutan won’t do.  Actually, I spend hours each week analyzing voluminous files of information, trying to glean a few nuggets of heretofore unknown facts and figures that you can share with your knitting … [Read more...] about February 26, 2018: It’s No Sin to Say That We Have It All In Georgia