Local matters, now more than ever

Our community is under attack. Frankly, all communities are under attack. And it is up to each individual community to protect itself or become a memory of the past. Technology has done a lot of great things for our world with healthcare being at the top of the list.

There’s no accountability

To the editor: The definition of accountability is when an individual or department experiences consequences for their performance or actions. Accountability is essential for an organization and for a society.

Eight is not enough

We have seen many public meetings in recent months where large numbers of citizens are attending. Most of them have two topics on their minds – how their taxes are being spent, and stopping some sort of large development from coming here.

Focusing on the good times this Father’s Day

It’s Father’s Day week, and no doubt about it, I am going to have a rough time. It’s been a little more than a month since my Pops passed away, and the quiet has been deafening. Nobody called my cell phone more than Pops, and now, having unlimited minutes hardly seems like a necessity.

There is help out there for those in crisis

What should you do when a relative or friend is in serious psychological distress?       Northeast Georgia residents may have thought about it once or twice, particularly at those moments when violence erupts at the hands of a mentally ill person, as occurred in Atlanta on May 3.

Peaks and valleys of summer

When faced with an inconvenience, people tend to exaggerate their circumstances. They take a normal, everyday life experience and contort it into some big bad bugaboo. A minor infraction quickly escalates into an irrational reaction. I, at times, am as guilty as they come.