Bill Crane

Columnist

Bill Crane has been a political analyst and commentator for 20 years. A former communications staffer for two U.S. Senators and one Governor in both major political parties, Crane 'grew up' in Georgia politics in a newspaper family. Crane owns his own corporate communications firm in Decatur, CSI Crane, LLC. He is a regular guest on WDUN's "Morning Talk with Martha Zoller," His weekly syndicated column is entitled "One Man's Opinion," and draws on his experience, good humor and life as a son of the south.

Water wars, reservoirs and quarries

More than 60 percent of our human bodies are basically saltwater. Oceans comprise more than 70 percent of the world's surface, and as the polar ice caps thaw and melt, that area is growing.

10:19AM ( 4 years ago )

Owning our errors

As humans, we make errors and mistakes. I've made plenty.

10:05AM ( 4 years ago )

Don't do it

There is of course a tendency, for an individual or political party is in a position of power, to want to try and hang on to that power.

10:05AM ( 4 years ago )

The Bubba Factor

As I'm writing you now, books are being written about the magical political calculus which 'turned the Red State of Georgia...Blue."

12:00AM ( 4 years ago )

Censure? Yes. Censor? No

Hard to believe that by the afternoon after the historic win of not one, but two U.S. Senate seats, shifting the Senate majority from Republican to a tie with the Democratic Party, and moving a historically GOP state (of nearly 20 years), clearly into battleground territory had already moved to the nation's B-sections.

9:35AM ( 4 years ago )

Concessions and confessions from this COVID Christmas

Though many researchers and scientists believe our Christmas gift from Wuhan, China arrived stateside late last year,

10:02AM ( 4 years ago )

How low can you go, sir?

Like many, I was surprised, but not shocked, when Donald Trump posted a respectable win over Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the Electoral College in 2016.

12:00AM ( 4 years ago )

That's enough, Mr. President

At noontime on Monday, December 14, 2020, across our nation in every State Capitol, 50 different slates of Electors, chosen on Tuesday, November 3, 2020, by the popular vote results of each state will meet, in a traditional legislative chamber or hearing room, or their office of Secretary of State, for each of 538 electors to be ballote

12:00AM ( 4 years ago )

Wither America's mayor?

As U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York during the 1980s, Rudolph Giuliani took on mob kingpins and crime bosses, and in most cases...Rudy won.

12:00AM ( 4 years ago )

Recounts, runoffs and election fraud

Political king-maker, Joseph Kennedy, father of then U.S. Senator John Fitzgerald Kennedy bragged to many in the almost immediate aftermath of the 1960 contest of the resources involved in vote-buying and tabulation 'assistance' in Illinois and Massachusetts, as well as the able support of these efforts in Texas by supporters of U.S. Senator Lyndon Baines Johnson.

12:00AM ( 4 years ago )