Under the Gold Dome
      Democrats Protect Local Control and Education - The vote finally came last week we had been hearing about since last summer. The tax plan was not a new tax on food, but a laundry list of 175 new taxes. Republicans also tried to take away local control, jeopardize local services, and hurt edu...
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Big money, big dreams
      Apparently, the price tag for becoming a presidential nominee is a whole lot pricier for a Democrat than a Republican. Either that, or Republicans really are more fiscally responsible, or at least can be. As of the end of January, Barack Obama's campaign reported $138.2 million. Hillary Clinton w...
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History really is alive!
      When asked if he could revisit only one of the historical venues we had visited in Washington last week, grandson Allen thought a minute and said, "The White House." Asked why, he said, "I'm afraid I might have missed something.
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New law addresses heavy issue
      Just because they haven't passed a budget yet doesn't mean members of the Georgia General Assembly aren't busy. On the last day of February, the senate made a giant leap toward improving Georgia's educational fortunes by passing a bill that will force teachers to waste time weighing overweight st...
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Watch your back, Glenn
      If Gov. Sonny Perdue had been Speaker of the House last week, he could have easily passed SR 796, a proposed constitutional amendment to remove property taxes from cars, trucks and motorcycles. If the late Tom Murphy had returned to the podium, he could have enacted it.
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