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.

Addition versus subtraction, along with compromise

For centuries it was a sacred Indian burial ground. Later the site of one of the most commercially viable granite quarries in the nation, with its granite now forming the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court, one side of the U.S. Capitol building, and the walls of Fort Knox. And since 1958, the world's largest granite out-cropping has been a Georgia State Park and Confederate Memorial.

9:27AM ( 3 years ago )

So you have a case of vaccine hesitancy?

If you are among those who have already received your first COVID19 vaccine, the J&J one-shot, or awaiting only your second vaccine dose, then thank you for doing your part.

9:31AM ( 3 years ago )

Out of their league

I certainly give Major League Baseball (MLB) and Jackie Robinson credit for breaking the color barrier and slowly ending segregation within the sport.

10:52AM ( 4 years ago )

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 ( 4 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 ( 4 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 ( 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 )