Blog Posts in 2021
Posted on Dec 29, 2021 By David Thomas
THE 110-YEAR PRISON SENTENCE In the news recently was the story of what seemed to be a wildly disproportionate sentence for an accident involving a truck. On April 25, 2019, in Colorado, Rogel ...
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Posted on Dec 22, 2021 By David Thomas
HOLIDAY TRAVEL RISKS The National Safety Council (NSC) estimates that 371 people may die on U.S. roads this Christmas Day holiday period. Holidays traditionally are a time of travel for families ...
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Posted on Dec 11, 2021 By David Thomas
WHAT IS REASONABLE? In our November 17 blog, we discussed the prediction by the Farmers’ Almanac for a wetter than usual winter for Georgia. Extra precipitation—either in the form of ...
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Posted on Dec 3, 2021 By David Thomas
TRAGEDY IN MICHIGAN On Tuesday, November 30, 2021, yet another school shooting occurred, this time at a high school in Oxford, Michigan. This almost uniquely American phenomenon is tragically, ...
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Posted on Nov 26, 2021 By David Thomas
THE FORGOTTEN EPIDEMIC The revised and finalized numbers are staggering: for the 12-month period beginning March 2020 and ending March 2021, more than 100,000 people died from a drug overdose. With ...
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Posted on Nov 17, 2021 By David Thomas
“SEASON OF SHIVERS” The first edition of the Farmer’s Almanac was published in 1818, and it has been published continuously ever since. The Farmer’s Almanac provides long-range ...
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Posted on Nov 10, 2021 By David Thomas
DARK DAYS AHEAD We are in the dark days. No, not another Covid-19 surge (we hope). The end of Daylight Saving Time. We “fall back,” setting our clocks back an hour, ending the six months ...
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Posted on Nov 3, 2021 By David Thomas
THE IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON GEORGIA As world leaders gather at the 26th United Nations Climate Change conference in Glasgow, Scotland known as COP26 (the 26th “Conference of the ...
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