Has George Will Acquired a Ghost Writer?
I read one of George Will's columns in my local paper this morning. Don't ask why. Perhaps it was the headline that was irresistible to someone who's always nattering about the law.Now it turns out the...
View ArticleGA: Kudos to Ralph Hudgens
Identifying himself as Insurance Commissioner, Ralph is doing robo calls at supper time to land lines, reminding people that early voting has begun.Sounds like somebody's getting desperate, as well...
View ArticleWhat's the Matter with Cannon's Point Preserve?
OK. I'll be blunt and up front. I'm prejudiced. I am not open-minded about taxes. Now that I've discovered/decided that the main purpose of taxes is to keep the currency moving at a goodly rate, back...
View ArticleNH: News from Jefferson/Jackson Dinner
This is going to be short. No links because it is a first-hand report from an attendee at the annual Jefferson/Jackson Dinner held last evening in Manchester, New Hampshire.Much speechifying at the JJ...
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And Now for Something Entirely Different: Oiltanking
I was looking for some information on reversible multi-purpose pipelines. Well, first off, I was looking to see if there are such creatures or it was just my imagination that they exist. Didn't...
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The Early Bird Catches the Yellow-bellied Press
What happens to copy right when an editor throws a story in the trash? Of course, there'd be no point in providing a link to The Brunswick News anyway, because one has to subscribe to read anything...
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The Road to **** is Paved with Good Intentions.
How does that happen? Mostly, it's the result of a mixture of hubris and inadvertence. Humans, stuck on themselves, think they know it all. Others are convinced "all it takes is the idea" (the...
View ArticleDo Republicans Even Know What "Conflict of Interest" Means?
Below are the seventeen white men and two white women serving as the Board of Directors for the Georgia Department of Natural Resources. Presumably, they are exemplars of what it means to "run...
View ArticleEthical Recreation
The other day I published a post on Hannah Blog, which I thought too quirky to publish elsewhere, but the editor of LiketheDew disagreed, so, in the interest of promoting that site, here's the link to...
View ArticleGovernment by Developer--Vested Interests
In Glynn County, Georgia, I recently discovered, the county planning staff has been passing off amendments to the master plan, drawn up by developers, as their own. At least, we still have an elected...
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Have We Turned a Corner?
For the first time since 2009, the rate at which the dollar moves through the economy on its way to becoming part of the Gross National Product has increased. The Federal Reserve data collectors had to...
View ArticleFake IDs and Straw Buyers
It has to be true that what we don't do, we don't know. At any rate, having never had reason to have, much less use, a fake ID (I've only ever been stopped and asked for my driver's license once in my...
View Article21st Century Segmentation
There's a new wave of segmentation starting up in Georgia and likely moving to other southern states where counties providing services to large unincorporated areas are still the order of the day.In...
View Article"The Reserve at Demere," redux
Previous installments of this coastal Georgia saga appeared here and here.Last week James Holland went along on an official inspection with the County Engineer. Not surprisingly, he had some concerns...
View ArticleWalmart, the Waystation
In the beginning, Walmart was a merchandizing enterprise which took advantage of the fact that the mark-up on products was typically 100% of the wholesale price. Moreover, other large merchandizers,...
View ArticleOf Corporate Shells and Shills
Brunswick, Ga-- Yesterday's meeting of the Coastal Marshland Protection Committee was held in the Susan Shipman Learning Center, an adjunct of the Department of Natural Resources District facilities...
View ArticleGeorgia: Our Vanishing Barrier Island Spit
The Coast of Georgia is protected by a string of sea islands, one of which is actually called Sea island and has an eroding Spit at its southern end. Other Sea Island claims to fame revolve around...
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Marshes of Glynn under Siege
Oh, those golden isles. The storied marshes of Glynn, popularized in a poem by Sydney Lanier, are under siege from city, county and state forces. Aptly named, the Golden Isles, are being nibbled to...
View ArticleLCP White-Wash
It has been known for several decades that various industrial enterprises on the coast of Georgia had left a residue of contaminated soils and wetlands. But that the residues continue to be absorbed by...
View Article"Killing Beavers is not Management"
That was the subject line of one of my missives in response to the Glynn County Director of Public Works entering into a contract with a trapper to deal with beavers that might presume to clog his...
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