Category: Tom Baxter

Why are both Democrats and Republicans so sure the One Big Beautiful Bill will be President Donald Trump’s last big chance to pass legislation?

Titanium dioxide isn’t the rarest mineral, and its uses — making various products look whiter — aren’t the most vital. Yet, this powdery substance has been the subject of a six-year-long legal battle which culminated last week in a $60 million deal for land near the Okefenokee Swamp.

There was some inevitable blowback last week when U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene said she would have voted against the Big Beautiful Bill if she’d known some of the things that are in it. For once, her critics need to cut her a little slack.

Suppose that in answer to a dramatic escalation of the Trump administration’s drive to take over Greenland, Denmark launched a surprise attack on the United States.

Georgia finished in early April, but around the country a number of state legislatures are concluding their sessions about now. They may not know it yet, but these could have been the happiest days this generation of state legislators will ever know.

As the Texas legislature grinds toward a June 2 sine die, T. Boone Pickens must be turning over in his grave.

Push has come to shove in American politics, and that famous location turns out to be somewhere down on the Coweta County line.

Compared to other federal agencies, President Donald Trump’s dealings with the Tennessee Valley Authority haven’t drawn much attention outside the giant utility’s service area, but they have been stormy.

It’s easy to muster sympathy for CDC scientists doing critical research and National Park rangers protecting the environment, but this April, the nation’s tax collectors could use some love as well.

A flurry of pundits, several polls and the president himself have all agreed that the last election came down to the price of eggs and bread. Did it?

It was fitting that after the last arms had been twisted and the deciding votes locked down, the concluding words spoken in opposition to Gov. Brian Kemp’s tort reform bill came not from Democrats, but indirectly from Donald Trump.

Social Security is often called “the third rail of American politics,” a term that harkens back to the old streetcar days when most city folks understood that touching the third rail of a trolley line could kill you.

We should probably be more worried about wildfires and measles than we have been so far.

The wire services have a problem, and maybe also, a golden opportunity.

My dad was quite the joker. Sometimes, driving past a city or state work crew back in the 1950s, he’d roll down the car window and yell “Got it made!”

Last week, a merchant ship bound from the Suez Canal to Romania collided with the nuclear aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman in the Mediterranean.