Former President Jimmy Carter celebrated his 100th birthday earlier this month. It’s a goal few of us will ever reach. Even fewer will get to spend four of our years as the leader of the free world.
There were a couple of ideas for what this piece should have been last week or this week. Jimmy Carter has made it to 100. This column is generally about politics with a Georgia perspective, and no Georgian has made it farther or longer in that space.
We’re less than six weeks from the presidential election, and to be honest I’m already losing interest.
The next few weeks are about Pennsylvania. Sure, Georgia is a swing state. Pennsylvania is THE swing state.
Campaigns have become quite frustrating for policy wonks, as campaign consultants generally advise candidates from staking out firm policy positions these days.
As I write this column from Savannah, there’s a lot of uncertainty in our world – locally, nationally and internationally.
I don’t have an opinion on the Olympics opening ceremony. I didn’t watch it, but it seems a lot of you did. Based on my social media feeds across various platforms, many of you have opinions on it.
The American political world right now is probably best described as “in turmoil.” In a span of eight days we had one nominee for President nearly assassinated, with the federal agency tasked with protecting him refusing to answer basic questions.
We’re now well into our second week of post-presidential debate aftermath, without any clear change to the status quo in sight.
We’ve barely marked the official start of summer – not the wear white after Memorial Day part, but the equinox part on the calendar. And yet, the first signs of fall are already upon us. My friends are already over other sports and talking smack again about college football.
