When it happened, I was out of town on business, hundreds of miles away. It was a terrible feeling of helplessness.

Has it really have been 24 years since the Atlanta Centennial Olympic Games? 

Community policing, or community-oriented policing, is a strategy of policing that focuses on building ties and working closely with members of the communities. The main idea is to create trust and partnership between police and the public.

As I write this, it has been 113 days since the first COVID-19 case was identified in my home county. Within an hour, the school system announced schools would be closed for two weeks in order to give classrooms a thorough scrubbing. Little did we know.

Watch out, Gwinnett. You don’t need to delay mass transit.

I’m getting a whole-house attic fan installed this week – just like the one my father had installed in my childhood home – and I cannot wait to cool my house using his old-time methods.

I can’t recall the last time I wrote or received a handwritten letter – but it’s time to send such letters again.

America’s Founders regarded a free press as so vital to the new nation that they took care to include that right in the First Amendment to the Constitution.

From time to time I like to play golf. I play golf badly, most of the time. Even though Mark Twain once called golf “a good walk spoiled,” I still like to play. And I ride in a cart. I don’t walk.

What a country, right? As we celebrate America’s 244th birthday this week, let’s pause and list a few reasons to love America.

Pope Francis couldn’t have said it better.

Two years before Mama died and awhile before Tink, she and I were having breakfast for supper one night at a Waffle House.

As the economy starts to reopen, companies face a delicate question: how can they sell — which is essential to their survival — but do it in a way that isn’t perceived as desperate or off-putting?

While doing some research on an upcoming book project, I was looking through some 1930s era newspapers. One theater proudly advertised, Coming Distractions! I don’t know if that was a typo, or if they were indeed offering people distractions from the Great Depression.

President Trump's speech Saturday night in Tulsa, Oklahoma, was a toxic stream of consciousness that ignored a great opportunity to speak words of healing and unity to a divided nation.

Here’s a good starting point: Why don’t we work harder to fully understand each other’s unique experiences and difficulties – so we may finally solve America’s 400-year racial dilemma.

My first-grade teacher, Miss Ruby Jordon, taught me that “history” means “his story,” the story of mankind — and even though this was 1958, she assured the girls that by “mankind” women were included, too.

You weren’t put on this earth to play small. You have a bigger purpose here, we all do.

When I was 13, I begged Mama to let me have a Tupperware party. It took some work but finally she agreed.

Missing the Beach, the Buffet, and the Braves

Here’s a good starting point: Why don’t we work harder to fully understand each other’s unique experiences and difficulties – so we may finally solve America’s 400-year racial dilemma.

There has been a national conversation stirring the hearts of Americans these past few weeks. Recent violent acts upon black citizens have created a national conversation impacting communities across the country.

Here’s a good starting point: Why don’t we work harder to fully understand each other’s unique experiences and difficulties – so we may finally solve America’s 400-year racial dilemma.

These thoughts on the current upheaval in our country come courtesy of an unusual array of sources: The late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy; Larry Savage, a candidate for chairman of the Cobb County Commission; and Hayden, Cayden and Jamaya (more on them later).

I appreciate the fact that Greg McGarity is willing to continue to serve his alma mater, and mine, and get us to the next calm harbor.

It was a night I shall never forget.

Like many of you, I have worked from home for the past three months, and it has given me a chance to familiarize myself with my new surroundings. It turns out that this place I’ve slept and watched ballgames on weekends for 30 years needed a few repairs.

My column last week on a radio commentary by the late Paul Harvey drew a lot of reader response from across the state, all of it positive. As you will recall if you saw the column, some 55 years ago Harvey penned a piece entitled, “If I Were the Devil,’ that was frighteningly prescient.

“Late at night when it’s hard to rest/I hold your picture to my chest/and I feel fine, I feel fine/But it’s a rainy night in Georgia …” – written by Tony Joe White and performed by Brook Benton.

Your words as leader matter to your team. In this environment they matter even more.

Improving cooperation is an increasingly urgent challenge for leaders.

Neil Bonnett was one of the nicest guys the sports world ever knew.

We all have them, tucked away in our memory bank. The songs that make us smile, often many decades after we first heard them. 

Where there’s a need, a solution quickly follows, as the American drive-in theater is reinvented all over again.

So, I guess it’s summer. Hard to know when school has been out, for all practical purposes, since the middle of March.

My children never knew a vacation without frequent stops at historic markers. Other dads were taking their kids to the beach and the mountains and Disney World. I did, too. But we stopped at a lot of cemeteries and memorials along the way.

I have long been an admirer of the words and works of the late Paul Harvey and his radio commentaries known as the “The Rest of the Story.” 

No one comes out of a crisis the same, they either emerge stronger or they emerge weaker.

Neil Bonnett was one of the nicest guys the sports world ever knew.

Where there’s a need, a solution quickly follows, as the American drive-in theater is reinvented all over again.