The history of Georgia agriculture is reflected in the history of our family farm near Cedartown. We now do a reverse of the old sharecropper system.

This year’s LINK trip participants found out that Denver has much to teach Atlanta and Georgia about transportation, hospitals and water resource management.

Tax Allocation Districts are a great deal for everyone, because a developer might not normally risk building in a run-down part of town. Local governments and schools win, because they aren’t getting any tax revenues from the blighted area anyway.

The crisis of leadership in the General Assembly is a result of no one’s wanting to deal with House Speaker Glenn Richardson and his abrasive management style. When things don’t go his way, his temper flares.

Thanks to the state’s busy ports, the coast of Georgia is on a roll. A recent study showed 15 new private industrial parks in Savannah, with 20 million square feet of space.

We only have to look at our struggles in Iraq and the governments in Venezuela and Zimbabwe to see that many parts of the world do not embrace Western principles of freedom.

Two prominent economists, Robert Sumichrast and Albert Niemi, predict, with some caveats, that Georgia’s above-average population growth and other factors will help shield us from a major downturn.

Gov. Sonny Perdue is the only person in a position to stop the GREAT plan. The power of the governor’s office can be used to stop legislation that will do harm to the citizens of Georgia.

Some favorite quips covering taxes, friendship, marriage, money, meetings, committees, small dogs and trophy wives.

A visit to Arlington National Cemetery provides a different view of the Confederate general who celebrated the end of slavery, saying he was “rejoiced” that it is abolished.