Author Archives: Tom Baxter

To hear him tell it, Charlie Kirk was all for freedom of speech. There is no telling what he would have thought of the turmoil over free speech which has followed his death.

The World Cup has afforded us with a timely lesson which applies to much more than sports. On the world stage, winning and losing has everything to do with how you keep score.

he month before the special session began here in Georgia, South Carolina’s legislature convened with the same mission: to redraw the state’s congressional map in line with the U.S. Supreme Court barring the consideration of race. What happened there was an accurate indicator of what would happen here.

t goes without saying that President Donald Trump is tangled up every which way in this year’s elections in Georgia. The question is what difference that’s going to make.

efore there’s much else to say about the results of Tuesday’s election, we can say that, perhaps to a surprising degree, people have been paying attention. We can draw that conclusion from the record early voting numbers, which topped a million for the first time.

Whenever there’s a hard bump in the market or a bad economic report, you’ll hear commentators speak in worried tones about what this means for people’s 401(k)s. You would think, then, that any big changes in this retirement savings program would draw a lot of attention.

With all the confusion over how we’re going to vote, the only thing that could make this year’s Georgia elections a bigger mess would have been to start tinkering with the state’s congressional and legislative maps.

This would be a good year to check a sample ballot before you go to vote in either party’s primary. With a lot of open-seat races and pent-up ambitions, the ballots for both parties are long and filled with unfamiliar names.

“It’s just a simple redrawing. We pick up five seats.” This week’s special election in Virginia is the latest in a long path of unintended consequences which have followed those words.

On the day when the Artemis II crew reached the greatest distance any humans have traveled from earth, the headline story was President Donald Trump’s announcement of the dramatic rescue of a downed U.S. airman in Iran.

f there were no other way to tell this was an election-year session, you could have guessed from a Senate amendment which made its way on to a House bill as the General Assembly neared Sine Die last week.

People who care about sports worry about the ways micro-betting and live betting are creating new ways for corruption to seep in to games. But there is more to worry about than sports.

When Democrats defeated two Republican incumbents to win seats on the Public Service Commission last November, it was considered pretty big news here in Georgia. After all, it was the first time since 2006 that a Democrat had won a statewide race.

here was a story in the Columbus Ledger last week which puts much of the news from the Golden Dome in sharp perspective.

You can’t exactly say that having the way cleared so that he could get an endorsement from the Republican National Committee is the worst thing to happen to Lt. Gov. Burt Jones this year.

Last week marked the end of an 88-year-old record, as the Gallup Organization announced it will no longer publish favorability ratings of public figures, including the president.

he Democratic strategist James Carville used to say that “business” candidates were like bananas: the longer they stayed on the shelf, the worse they looked.

’m one of the most counted people in the United States, and maybe you are too. I’m a registered voter in Fulton County.