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.

Any antidote for hate?

At some risk of over-simplification, the mass murder of eight massage parlor workers and customers in Cherokee and Fulton counties was in fact an act of hate.

8:56AM ( 3 years ago )

There is no excuse

Having been involved during the 90s and early 2000s in building out some of the infrastructures which became the two-party system in Georgia, I can say with some degree of authority that the Georgia GOP once had a much broader and more diverse base.

12:00AM ( 3 years ago )

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 ( 3 years ago )

Owning our errors

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

10:05AM ( 3 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 ( 3 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 ( 3 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 ( 3 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 ( 3 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 ( 3 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 ( 3 years ago )