Charles E. Richardson
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About Charles E. Richardson
Charles E. Richardson is a Knight Fellow at Duke University and the University of Maryland. He's taken courses in journalism and not-for-profit governance at Harvard. He has served on several civic boards and is the past state chairman for Kids Voting - Georgia and former chairman of the board for the Professional Association of Georgia Educators Foundation.
RICHARDSON: Something’s just not right
Last Tuesday, my newspaper sat up from my lap and screamed at me. Yes, screamed. At the top of Page 1A was a story of the capture of two men and a woman, none over the age of 19, accused of killing Russell Jacobs and James Wood. Another 17-year-old thought to be involved in the murder was still...
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CHARLES E. RICHARDSON
RICHARDSON: Relay for Life is the essence of Macon
Last week, I participated in the American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life. I wasn’t alone. I was accompanied by the real folks of Macon and Middle Georgia. There are a lot of us.
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RICHARDSON: Our rocks are crumbling
There are clear signs that point to a society that’s going to Hell in a handbasket. Stay with me now, this might take a while.
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RICHARDSON: ‘He was a good kid’
“He was a good kid.” Words spoken by John Johnson Jr., the father of 18-year-old John Johnson III, after his son was shot and killed last weekend at a party. Police say the murder was gang related.
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RICHARDSON; Any solution to gun debate?
“Just how stupid can this person be? He wants to take out a lot of people ... so he uses a knife? Wow ... what a loser! All he had to do was walk down the street, buy an assault rifle, then return to campus. What poor decision making! Bet that guy is a liberal and never fired a gun in his...
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Richardson: What’s our excuse?
There has rightly been a lot of ballyhoo over the release of “42” -- a biopic about the life of Jackie Robinson. It was filmed mainly in Macon, starring Harrison Ford as Branch Rickey, the president and general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, and Chadwick Boseman as Jackie Robinson.
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RICHARDSON: Time to renovate?
There are ghosts all around us. Some good, some bad. These ghosts can make us excel to the highest heights in our quests to do them one better, or they can shackle us, making our progress a long, slow slog or halt it altogether.
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RICHARDSON: Seeking grace and mercy
As one of the most holy days on the Christian calendar arrives, some of us, and I would venture to guess, many of us, are more concerned with how much damage last night’s basketball games did to our NCAA brackets than the resurrection of our Christ.
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RICHARDSON: Flipping the switch
Let me apologize up front. Please do not think less of me (some readers that will find that hard to do) when I make the following admission: I sometimes, but not regularly, watch “American Idol.” Along with 12.7 million other viewers Thursday, I watched the Top Nine contenders take...
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RICHARDSON: Being left behind by technology
“You’re feeling like you are being left behind because you are being left behind.”
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RICHARDSON: Three dynamic artist pass within days of each other
With the passing of Damon Harris, 62, Richard Street, 70 and Bobby Rogers, 73, all within a couple of weeks of each other, another marker in time has hit me across the noggin.
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