Yarbrough: Some random thoughts on random subjects

Our intrepid public servants must think we are a bunch of imbeciles (and they may be right, since we’re the ones who elected them).But if the recent episode of senior U.S. officials mistakenly inviting a reporter into a group chat discussing battle plans to strike Houthi targets in Yemen last week...

Crane: Solid Gold - 50 years of healing:Morehouse School of Medicine

In 1975, the modest beginnings of a medical school at the Atlanta University Center spanned only two trailers, sitting in the middle of the Morehouse College campus as the nascent start of a two-year Medical Associate degree program.With an initial state appropriation from Governor George Busbee’s...

Tocher: Missing a dear friend

I endured one of the most disturbing and sad moments of my life upon returning home from work in the wee hours last Monday night/Tuesday morning.Upon opening the front door, I was ready to issue my usual hello to “Kitty Cat Number One, and Kitty Cat Number Two,” better known as Ziggy and Mannix,...

Williams: Week 11 under the Gold Dome

We’re almost down to the final week of the 2025 Legislative Session, and what’s happening at the Capitol right now affects your family, your paycheck, and your way of life.

Rich: The Belgian lace

Merri Grace was one of my best college friends. Together, we went everywhere.She lived on campus, but I was too poor for such grandeur. I lived at home and drove to school. It was much like high school except we could skip class without our mothers being notified.Merri Grace was the boss.

Yarbrough: If we’re not happy, can we just annex Finland?

Perhaps you are not familiar with the World Happiness Report that ranks countries on how happy their citizens are?The release of the 13th edition of the annual report this year coincided with March 20 — United Nations International Day of Happiness — which probably made a lot of people unhappy...

Letter to the Editor: Hoping for change in county-citizen exchanges

Dear Editor,Recently, I attended a Town Hall commission meeting where residents were to be introduced and educated about a planned development project near Harmony Road. This is the first Town Hall meeting that I have seen the commission hold in the five years I’ve lived in Putnam County.

Rich: The old hat

In my hands, I held the battered straw hat, holes torn in a couple of places. For a solid block of time, I studied it, having taken it down from the fireplace mantle.I choked up. It probably cost no more than a quarter, yet Oscar Cannon, no doubt, wore it for half a century or more.

Tocher: Canada is not a state

I’ve told many people before that I’m a true Son of the South; it just happens to be from Southern Ontario, about a hundred miles east of Toronto.

Benjamin-Smith: History and happiness are all around us

I have been wandering, wandering, wandering.The past few weeks have been exciting. Let me slow down and tell you about them. First, in February, we celebrated, celebrated, and celebrated because it was Black History Month. I celebrate each and every month.