Category: Tom Baxter

One night in 1898, a fire broke out on the USS Maine, which was anchored in Havana Harbor, igniting the warship’s ammunition and sinking it with the loss of 266 sailors.

When the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported last week that the hospital which Lt. Gov. Burt Jones’ father is proposing to build in Butts County is to be surrounded by data centers, a spokeswoman for Jones called it a non-story.Even if you don’t agree, you can see her point.

It’s just a guy in a suit standing next to an empty podium. But keep that image in mind, and if at any time over the next few years you’re upset about your power bill or outraged about the data center they’re building near you, remember it.

It’s been widely noted by historians of the Second World War that the victors in that conflict — the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union —mobilized women far more quickly than the losers: Germany, Japan and Italy. In light of last week’s speeches to the brass at Quantico, this might be worth some review.

When state Rep. Ruwa Romman entered the 2026 Democratic primary field Monday, she became her party’s seventh announced candidate for governor. That says something about the Democrats’ enthusiasm for next year, if not their chances.

How will we know? If things take a serious turn for the worse, how will we find out in time to do anything about it?

When crypto mining opponents in other states get discouraged, Cyndie Roberson often sends them a video clip of the Georgia House Banks and Banking Committee’s hearing last year on the Blockchain Basics Act.

Over in Montgomery, where some 4,000 people work at Hyundai’s first U.S. assembly plant, the Montgomery Biscuits minor league team hosts a Kimchi Night every summer.

On Labor Day we tend to think of the American workforce — to the extent we think of it at all — in terms of hard hats and assembly lines, not stethoscopes and nurses’ crocs.

With great fanfare earlier this month, the pioneering artificial intelligence company OpenAI unveiled its latest model, GPT-5, an AI system so advanced that using it was said to be like conversing with a Ph.d. It landed with a unsettling thud.

Big political races can sit off on the horizon, unmoving, and then take shape as suddenly as a summer shower. Something like that happened over the past week or so in Georgia.

Iowa and Georgia are two states which have taken decisive steps to secure their place in the 21st Century economy. Now both have a similar problem.

e may not be used to thinking of it this way, but the collapse of First Liberty Building and Loan and the resulting political fallout is a national story of some importance.

For more than five decades, the Almanac of American Politics has set the standard for political reference books. In September, the Almanac will be publishing its 2026 edition, with more than 2,000 pages offering fully updated chapters on all 435 House members and their districts, all 100 senators, all 50 states and governors, and much […]

Alligator Alcatraz, the hastily built Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center in the middle of the Florida Everglades, has been used for a lot of photo ops. But a few miles east of the Okefenokee Swamp, in the South Georgia town of Folkston, plans are moving forward for what will be the largest detention center in the country.

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.