Entries by Staff Writer

The quarterly meeting for Pineland Community Service Board is scheduled for Thursday April 17, at the Toombs Service Center in Lyons on 503 Reidsville Road. The business meeting will begin at 6:00 p.m.

Many of you know that The News-Banner is a strong advocate for making informed decisions when voters go to the polls and cast votes. People have often questioned, “How do we make informed decisions on national and state candidates?” [Full Story »] 

(Published in The Brunswick News on April 4)

The state of Georgia has a tough job ahead of it. It must find a way, believe it or not, to get the men and women who work for the state’s welfare system to, simply put, do their jobs.

Is this really an issue? If it is, it shouldn’t be, not when there is a simple solution. It’s a solution that involves three small words: You are fired! [Full Story »] 

April is Child Abuse Prevention Month in Georgia, as proclaimed by Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal. Child abuse is a subject I don’t like to think about, let alone write about and you would probably just as soon not hear about. But it is there and we need to acknowledge it and demand some solutions. [Full Story »] 

Last Thursday I was fast-forwarding through the commercials to get to “Criminal Minds,” which we’d recorded the night before. I always stop for commercials with cute animals or children, but rarely for a political ad. However, when a Jack Kingston commercial caught my eye, I backed up and watched it. He was standing in front of an old Lincoln town car, a very old car by today’s standards—maybe the 90s. I can’t quote him exactly, but essentially what he said was that he drives it because it still runs. That tidbit caught my eye and ear because that kind of thinking runs the Ellis household. Many of our friends think that way, too. You’ll notice that we all tend to think that the people who agree with us are the smartest people alive. [Full Story »]