Opinion

A medical situation several years ago, resulting with me making an unexpected late-night dash to one of the local hospital emergency rooms, prompted inquiry as to what actual administrative duties are exercised by the FDA (Federal Food and Drug Administration). In short, that particular experience had entailed medications being administered with no indication of the…

With a rising high school junior in the house, my family is increasingly awash in the trappings of a college selection. Some university or other hits him up via snail mail a few times a week, and still another college seems to find its way to his email inbox daily. This past week, I attended…

A little more than a week ago, I received a daunting phone call on a Thursday evening that shook me for a moment. Our youngest child, who lives in Indiana, called to inform she’d been involved in an auto accident. The fact that it was her contacting me did help to some degree so my…

Two groups got answers they’d awaited this past week, signaling what was to come for their future. Catholics got their new pope. But Georgia Republicans are still waiting for their candidate. No plume of smoke arose from the Governor’s Mansion when Brian Kemp announced he would not seek one of Georgia’s U.S. Senate seats next…

In contemplating our current state of affairs, and the fact that we have come to the end of our tax season it has made me wonder as a nongovernmental, self-employed taxpayer am I being served by the public sector or am I serving the public sector? April 9 is Tax Freedom Day. That is the…