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EDITORIAL: Lanier County Officials Use Deflections to Block Public Fire Records, Violating Georgia Open Records Law
LAKELAND, Lanier County, Georgia — A recent push to obtain fire and rescue call records and financial documents from the Lanier County Fire Department has sparked public outcry, as officials continue to deflect open records requests—despite clear mandates under Georgia law. The Lanier County News and citizens have faced silence and excuses instead of transparency.…
Read MoreBig Beautiful Bill, Part II – Historically Speaking By James Finck, Ph. D.
July 5, 2025 From Southwest Ledger After spending the morning at the Ansel Adams exhibit in the morning, I decided I had had too much fun and so spent a couple more hours looking over the Bill. One thing to remember, please, is that I am a…
Read MoreIsaiah’s Messiah: Is God Dead? by Ty B. Kerley,DMin
Last week, we began to investigate the Jewish claim of a coming Messiah throughout history. In fact, we listed some seventeen ancient prophetic historians who recorded prophecies of this King and Messiah. Bible scholar John MacArthur notes that these prophecies begin in Genesis, in the Garden, with God cursing Eve.…
Read MoreHappy 4th of July – Historically Speaking By James Finck, Ph. D.
July 4, 2025 From Southwest Ledger Happy 4th of July everyone. I assume you all have spent the day like me, dividing your time between watching 1776 and reading Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill. I did not intend to spend the holiday reading this, but I have not been…
Read More“The Story of Everything” Is God Dead? by Ty B. Kerley,DMin
Last week, we began to scratch the surface of a story that goes back to the very basement of time: the story of the Jewish people. Since the idea of “history” is defined by Oxford as “the whole series of past events connected with someone or something,” then the Jewish story is not merely a…
Read MoreBook Review: Skousen’s “The Big Three in Economics” – Historically Speaking By James Finck, Ph. D.
June 11, 2025 From Southwest Ledger To better understand economic thought, I decided to tackle Mark Skousen’s 2007 book “The Big Three in Economics: Adam Smith, Karl Marx and John Maynard Keynes.” Not written as an economics textbook but more of a biographical look into the lives…
Read MoreExpectancy: Is God Dead? by Ty B. Kerley,DMin
From the moral argument presented over the last few weeks, we determined that since the Great Designer and Creator is necessary for moral values to exist in created humans, He must be a Moral Being Himself who has imparted moral values to human beings —via the imago Dei—with the expectation that they are obligated to…
Read MoreGeorgians for Affordable Energy Claim Rate Freeze Good for Georgia Power Only
Dear Editor Thursday the Public Service Commission held a one-day hearing for the three-year Georgia Power rate freeze proposal that was announced on May 19th. You may recall that announcement included a celebratory press conference at the state capitol with Governor Brian Kemp and two commissioners. PSC Chair Jason Shaw raved about how great Georgia…
Read MoreEvolution’s Morality Is God Dead? by Ty B. Kerley,DMin
On more than one occasion, I have made the passing comment that “the Darwinist has no answer to . . .” this or that phenomenon. For instance, we have said that the Darwinist has no answer for the irreducible complexity of particular biological systems in nature. Recall that an irreducibly complex system could not have…
Read MoreGeorgia Conservation Voters: BIg Tech’s AI-driven data center boom
Big Tech’s AI-driven data center boom is putting our climate, communities, and public resources at risk. A new federal budget proposal would: – Slash taxes for billionaires and multinational corporations – Pull funding from essential public services – Block states from regulating data centers and artificial intelligence for the next 10 years The AI Moratorium…
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