Squawkbox – April 4, 2026

We will miss Freddie Powell Sims as our state Senator. But I’m so impressed with Ed Brown, a renowned professional economist who has moved back home to Albany and is running in the Democratic Primary. He is the real deal and can give us strength in Atlanta.

The two presidencies, Biden and Trump: Ultimate incompetency vs. unbridled narcissism with the prevailing impotent Congress, have brought the U.S. and world into the beginning of WW III and global financial collapse. While missiles destroy the fields of grain, the rich play fiddles on palatial Roman hills, as if the despair of humanity were but a stage.

These opposite and contradictory things that Trump says everyday are not reality or a strategy that he has thought out. It’s what his staff tells him because that’s what he wants to hear and also what he believes in that short moment.

As long as the city pays somebody else to come and clean up around my property, I’m going to let them. I have more important things to do than worry about a little trash.

Ludwig’s long and boring article on Steve Spurrier does not fit well in The Albany Herald. Albany, and almost all of the Herald’s readers, area are Georgia Bulldogs, Auburn Tigers and FSU Seminoles. I bet you could not fill up Jimmie’s Hot Dogs with Florida Gator fans; well, except when the Dawgs go down to the Gator Bowl to kick Florida’s butt every year.

The city has all but killed the Tift Park Market that started out as such a wonderful program. Now, it’s a handful of people selling the same stuff week after week. The city should have gotten behind this program from the start, but I guess unless you’re among the city and county government BFFs with their hands constantly out, you get no support.

The operative verb in King’s $190 million project is “will” (it will), i.e. it “DON’T” now but maybe, interpreted by wiser people as never will and paid for by the foolish under the assumption that the “world will see what we have” (don’t have). And for the taxpayer, neither money nor video we aint got. Thirty minutes on Grok gets the same thing for free.

Excellent story on local restaurants in Thursday’s Herald. The primary reasons these businesses close is that the owners don’t have the funds to operate a business, but they get loans from the city that allow them to open up but not stay in business. When bills come due, they close.

The fire engine sitting idle in Dawson is a perfect example of the ineptitude of the Trump administration. The machine is paid for, but the DFD can’t use it because of some bureaucratic bull. We’ll never survive these four years.

Congratulations to Jones Welding. Fifty years in business is quite an accomplishment. These folks have done it with outstanding customer service.

That King is getting $190,000 of Dougherty County taxpayers’ money is a prime example of how ignorant this group of county commissioners is. They’re using our money to pay off one of their friends (with kickbacks, no doubt) for something that was outdated the moment it was brought up. And the two commissioners who said this charade would bring people here (for something they see online) shows how out of touch they are.