Georgia is in an enviable position today, but we can't rest on our laurels.

[Georgia Gov. Roy Barnes, who ordered state and U.S. flags in Georgia flown at half-staff, called Coverdell] a quiet worker but a very productive one and a great one for the state of Georgia. ... reached out to both sides of the aisle.

By creating a Metropolitan North Georgia Water Planning District, we will give local governments a framework for working together on an issue that affects our whole state.

can't just sit back and rest on our laurels.

Neither political party is clean when it comes to tactics that divide our people.

Mostly, I'm in the very enviable position that no one dictates what I do.