Columns
YARBROUGH COLUMN: Some words of advice to a great grandson
Well, it’s that time of year again when your great-grandfather dispenses a little advice to you that he wishes he had gotten when he was ...
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Columns
YARBROUGH COLUMN: Sharing some advice for the new year
KNOCK! KNOCK! KNOCK! “Who’s there?” “It’s 2023. May I come in? It’s a bit cold out here. All I’m wearing is a sash and some Huggies!” “Please do. ...
by Dick Yarbrough, Thursday, January 5, 2023 10:30 am
Editorials
YARBROUGH COLUMN: Junior E. Lee takes a look at Y2KXXIII
The New Year is upon us. 2023. It seems like only yesterday that we were up at midnight on New Year’s Eve, 1999, wringing our ...
by Dick Yarbrough, Wednesday, December 28, 2022 9:30 am
Columns
YARBROUGH COLUMN: Herschel Walker and advisors fumbled senate campaign
One of the givens in occupying this space weekly is that when I talk about politics, which I do on occasion, anything I opine will ...
by Dick Yarbrough, Tuesday, December 13, 2022 10:30 am
Columns
YARBROUGH COLUMN: Making an exception
As a matter of policy, I don’t do book reviews in this space. If you do one, you are pretty much committed to do them ...
by Dick Yarbrough, Tuesday, December 6, 2022 11:30 am
Columns
YARBROUGH COLUMN: Can our Democracy outlast us?
This is kind of a bummer way to start your day but it is worth reflection: “Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts ...
by Dick Yarbrough, Tuesday, November 29, 2022 11:30 am
Columns
YARBROUGH COLUMN: Remembering the extraordinary kindness of Vince Dooley
There is no need for a recitation here of Vince Dooley’s myriad and well-deserved accomplishments on and off the football field. You have seen and ...
by Dick Yarbrough, Monday, November 7, 2022 12:02 pm
Columns
YARBROUGH COLUMN: Some random thoughts on random subjects
If you had the opportunity to speak with a typical Russian family about how the current war with Ukraine has impacted their lives, what would ...
by Dick Yarbrough, Tuesday, October 25, 2022 10:30 am
Columns
YARBROUGH COLUMN: No Nobel Prize for Literature again this year a bummer
I just learned that I have been passed over for the Nobel Prize for Literature once again. Bummer. And that crowd over in Stockholm didn’t even ...
by Dick Yarbrough, Tuesday, October 11, 2022 10:30 am
Columns
YARBROUGH COLUMN: Remembering a group of heroes in Iraq
It seems like a lifetime ago and in some ways it was. It has been 17 years this week since I was in Iraq with ...