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I couldn’t come up with much of an idea for a column this week, so I decided to dust off one of my old columns and offer it here as a reprint. The column was written in April, 1994, so it’s kinda old but, nonetheless, the idea behind it continues today. So, here it is:…

There seems to be an elevated amount of gnashing of the teeth around these parts lately about the new, elevated property tax assessments and, thus, the higher taxes property owners will face in the near future. I, too, am dismayed about the matter but not to the point of having to pay higher dental costs.…

“Consanguinity.” Now there’s a word not generally used in normal, run-of-the-mill conversation. Fact is, I can’t remember the last time I heard or read the word, nor can I remember a time I used the word in writing or conversation. I know its definition and how it might be used, but I don’t use it.…

Barnie O’Quinn mentioned in his column this week how the 55 mph speed limit through Jeff Davis and Telfair counties along the Golden Isles Highway (US 341) was a hindrance to progress for the two counties. Not so much for the speed, perhaps, but rather because speed enforcement cars sit along the side of the…

I was looking back at some old issues of the Ledger when I ran across a column I wrote some 25 years ago. I said up front in that column that it would be about trash. It was. On that particular day, I was short on ideas for a column which today, 25 years later,…

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about my childhood friend Danny. Danny was a year older than I was. Maybe two years older. He was one year ahead of me in school but, since Danny didn’t appear to me to be all that interested in school, or grades, or learning — at least not learning…

I’ve often said that I consider Burke County, the place where I grew up from the age of 12 to adulthood, is the Gnat Capital of the World. The county’s claim to fame is actually The Bird Dog Capital of the World due to the fact that, for many years, Burke County’s Berol Plantation has…