April 21, 2025 -Bill Crane While recently celebrating my friend and mentor, Professor Dodie Cantrell Bickley, following a retirement celebration (effective at the end of May 2025), at the Grady College of Journalism at the University of Georgia, I witnessed Professor Cantrell, also selected more than once during her tenure as the best teacher and faculty…… Continue Reading
Monday, April 14, 2025 -Bill Crane The American people have long demonstrated antipathy towards tariffs and duty fees. In Boston on December 16, 1773, in response to increasing tariffs on tea under the monopoly control of Great Britain, American colonists, disguised as native Americans boarded the Dartmouth, a British ship owned by the East India…… Continue Reading
Monday, April 7, 2025 -Bill Crane Like millions of other Americans, since my late 30’s, I have dealt with a chronic medical condition, in my case Ulcerative Colitis. Treatable, and manageable, though without a cure and that pre-existing medical condition made securing medical insurance a real joy, until the advent and passage of the Affordable…… Continue Reading
February 3, 2025 -Bill Crane Noted Black scholar and historian Carter G. Woodson, known as the Father of Black History, was born in 1875 to former slaves. He worked on the family farm in West Virginia as well as in the coal mines nearby. He was largely self-taught in most school subjects, and entered high school at…… Continue Reading
Monday, January 27, 2025 -Bill Crane I will have to look to others to be the judge of my reality here, but I try to be a well-mannered, southern gentleman, admittedly more than a bit old school in my day to day life and dealings with others. There is still a good bit of sarcasm…… Continue Reading
Monday, January 13, 2025 -Bill Crane In January of 2018, I followed our Georgia Bulldogs to the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, CA. The game was incredible, the Dawgs won, and I would not return to California until the post-pandemic win of the National Championship game in January of 2023 at the new SoFi Stadium complex near LAX. In 2018,…… Continue Reading
January 6, 2025 – Bill Crane Many believe the ultimate accomplishment for any American citizen is to be elected President of the United States. Though in our nearing 250 year history, only 46 have reached that objective, I would submit that its 39th occupant left many more lasting legacies during his years prior to and…… Continue Reading
Monday, December 30, 2024, -Bill Crane Having entered the September of my years as Frank Sinatra sings, or the 4th quarter of life as some others have less charitably put it, reminds one of the importance of taking inventory and adjusting at the close of each year. It is not about how many more years of life…… Continue Reading
Tuesday, December 17, 2024 -Bill Crane Like most folks, I have a wide spectrum of friends. Some, who tend to lean in a more Progressive direction, seem to think more government and government spending is the answer to most every societal ill, challenge or problem. Those on the Conservative or even Libertarian side of the…… Continue Reading
Monday, December 9, 2024 -Bill Crane As fall temperatures dip, and this endemic, former COVID19 pandemic and flu season again make their presence known, I am reminded of two life maxims for this time of pumpkin spice and the holidays. Get your shots, and for even better year-round counsel, be wise, exercise. The pandemic perhaps made…… Continue Reading