Clayton News Daily

What do you Geek? — SHERRY TURNER

On the scavenger hunt for antiques

Most individuals have antiques of one kind or another in their immediate surroundings.

The nickel and dime airlines shuffle — CURT YEOMANS

Can we just get a break from all of the fees charged on flights nowadays?

No place for campaigning at city, county meetings

It is not uncommon for city, county and school board officials to put a limit on how much citizens can speak at local government meetings. However, the elected officials themselves can drone on and on and on, about nothing that really pertains to the deliberative process.

Maybe government should spread the wealth — CURT YEOMANS

There are nine government bodies in Clayton County that meet 19 times a month.

Should crepe myrtles follow the rose’s lead? — CURT YEOMANS

Let’s try something a little different this week and recognize one Georgia city that went all out for its annual spring festival.

VOICE OF PEOPLE: Citizen wants cars off his street

Don’t you just hate it when someone parks their car on the street in front of your home?

Libraries want to know ‘What’s Your Geek?’ — SHERRY TURNER

What do you geek?

VOICE OF THE PEOPLE: Staggered transfer of code enforcement needed

Dr. Henry Anderson has been no stranger to county commissioners in recent weeks as he has repeatedly called on them to give additional support to police and to clean up unsightly properties.

Boston — the home away from home — CURT YEOMANS

Boston ranks as one of my Top 6 all-time favorite cities.

Our nation mourns - Jim Zachary

Once again the nation mourns.

When a deal isn’t a deal — CURT YEOMANS

Have you ever noticed that the so-called deals on airplane tickets always include an asterisk?

Open government: See it can be done

City meetings in Lake City are, in many ways, an exercise in local government transparency.

Last train across Europe — Curt Yeomans

You’d think it’d be easy to get from one major city in southern Europe to another but noooo, life can’t always be that convenient.

EDITORIAL: They should at least know ‘all politics is local’

Even if they can only look at how their legislative decisions will impact the election, rather than how it impacts people’s lives on a daily basis, elected officials would be wise to understand the words of former U.S. Speaker of the House Tip O’Neill who observed, “All politics is local.”

More cowbell needed in Jonesboro — CURT YEOMANS

Christopher Walken once said, “I’ve got a fever and the only cure is more cowbell” while playing a music producer in a famous Saturday Night Live sketch.