Yarbrough: Georgians should get an Official Dirt Act
Let's cut our state legislators a little slack before they begin their deliberations in earnest in the current session of the General Assembly. They need some time to get adjusted. You don't just go to Atlanta and start passing laws. The first thing you do is find out if anybody moved the bathrooms while you were gone, because you just might find yourself in some bureaucrat's new digs for all the wrong reasons.

Thompson: Georgians need popular initiative option
If there's one thing the recently concluded state legislative session proved, it's that it's time for some initiative in Georgia. As in "popular initiative," that is, the process by which citizens can do for themselves what their legislators are unwilling, unable or uninterested in doing for them.

Mortgage aids favor Georgians
Georgians could benefit more than people in many other states from new taxpayer-subsidized programs designed to help homeowners at risk of losing their homes.