Republicans call it the House Oversight Committee. The Democrats label it the House Witch Hunt Committee. For you students of government you know the three branches are supposedly co-equal. The courts have power to review what the other two branches do and the governor and legislature ...
During the late 1960s, the DNR’s Fisheries Division of the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) turned an aquatic wasteland into one of North Americas’ most sensational recreational fisheries. In doing so, the DNR harnessed a disastrous alewife invasion and restored a balanced ecosystem ...
Most times when I'm invited to speak at a conference, someone introduces me by reading the short bio provided. But this past week at the Southeastern Writers' Association Conference, my friend, the Georgia judge and novelist Lori Duff, introduced me. She started off by warning she might ...
There is no valid argument that mothers aren’t the most selfless people on Earth. There’s the endless laundry, the cooking, the organizing. “I try to make your life easier,” my wife likes to say to our girls. There’s also the emotional support, the right words at the right ...
The World Cup is kicking off here in the United States and for the next five weeks, a sport most Americans cannot be bothered to watch will bring the rest of the planet to our doorstep. They are already arriving. Germans, Spaniards, Egyptians, Australians, every continent but Antarctica is ...
Last year Microsoft Research reported on the 10 jobs most threatened by artificial intelligence. Should I, dear reader, be running scared? Historians are No. 2 on the list. The report says 91% of what historians do is pretty much covered by AI queries. Uh-oh. I majored in history in college and went on to get a master's. In the movie "Animal House," Bluto laments throwing "seven years of college down the drain." I guess the good news is maybe I only wasted six. Eventually, I pivoted to writing, with five novels published and another coming next year. And of course, there's this ...
