Memorial Day weekend and the official start of summer are here. Pools open, park use explodes, festivals and outdoor concerts and events fill your summer calendars in communities across Georgia.

Cleveland, Ohio is by all estimations on the rebound, however, like many of America's great industrial cities of the Midwest and Northeast, it was crippled by the industrial and jobs migration into the Southeast, from the 1970s to the present day.

In the immediate and tragic aftermath of the Midtown Atlanta shooting of five unrelated women in a doctor's office waiting room on Wednesday, May 3rd, officers from almost every city/county police agency in metro Atlanta, as well as the Georgia State Patrol, SWAT teams and multiple Sheriff offices, converged on the area.

Among the aspects of our republic that our founders got right, is the separation of powers of our three branches of government, Executive, Legislative, and Judicial.

The 'death' of AM radio was first foretold with the advent of television. The number of AM and Low Power AM stations only grew. And again, as the better fidelity and stereo sound of FM eclipsed its older sibling, again the dearth of AM frequencies was forecast...and then the birth of Talk Radio and AM audiences only exploded.

Among the most treasured and recalled rites of spring passage lie just ahead of us.

Though I do not believe the recent New York District Attorney and grand jury criminal indictments will sink the ‘unsinkable’ good ship Trump, I definitely believe that the former President is in for some protracted stormy weather.

As a teenager growing up in Griffin, Georgia, Scott Slade would point out the local radio station in a two-story walk-up just off the town square and say, "Someday, I'm going to be working there."