Yarbrough: An opinion on Okefenokee ‘no opinion’

Dear Congressman Buddy Carter,Your appearance a couple of weeks ago before the Water, Wildlife, and Fisheries subcommittee in Washington, of which you are not a member but were allowed to question a witness panel about our Okefenokee, was, shall we say, a bit out of the ordinary.

Yarbrough: Hard to be a sore loser in Georgia

The things you learn on this job. Someone called PromoGuy, who, it turns out, isn’t a guy at all but a company that deals with sports betting, says Georgians feel down for an average of 39 minutes after their favorite sports team suffers a disappointing result.

Yarbrough: More random thoughts on random subjects

Suppose anyone in the governor’s office or Twin Pines LLC read my open letter to Gov. Brian Kemp regarding the oxymoronic Environmental Protection Division’s consideration to allow drilling along the edge of our Okefenokee.

Yarbrough: Homage to an American hero

I am doing something I rarely, if ever, have done: I am going to rerun a previous column verbatim. Hans Trupp, of St. Simons, died last week. I wrote the following about him two years ago and ask your forbearance in allowing me to present it to you again.

Yarbrough: Uncle Coot for president

When the phone rings, you know it is Skeeter Skates. It doesn’t just ring, it jumps up and down. Skeeter can do that to a phone. And to people, too.If you are new to this space, Skeeter Skates owns and operates Skeeter Skates Tree Stump Removal and Plow Repair in Ryo, Georgia.

Yarbrough: Letter to a new great-grandson

Dear Samuel Knox Wansley, Welcome! You are my seventh great-grandchild and the fourth male in my growing family tree.However, I suspect that is of little importance to you now. Having arrived only a couple of weeks ago, you are more interested in sleep and sustenance than in your ranking.

Yarbrough: Twin Pines indifferent to Okefenokee backlash

As of this writing, the opportunity has passed to express your opinion to Georgia’s Environmental Protection Division about its decision to issue draft permits for Alabama-based Twin Pines Minerals to strip-mine the 582 acres of wetlands it owns adjacent to the Okefenokee Swamp.

Yarbrough: Sweet talk about Vidalia onions

Let’s face it. We’re a blessed people. Not only do we have the oldest state-chartered university in the nation with two recent National Football Championships, 27 Rhodes Scholars (but who’s counting?

Yarbrough: Bob Shaw, a man who made us better

My boss and mentor at Southern Bell, Jasper Dorsey, taught me a lot about the business world.He also taught me a lot about the world beyond business. One of his precepts was that we must leave this a better world than we found it. Otherwise, we have just taken up time and space and wasted a life.

Yarbrough: Becoming a Bulldog – forever

A lot is going on at my alma mater, the University of Georgia. Not all the news has been good.