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Remembering two girls’ grandfather at Christmas

By ⋅ December 20, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

DEC. 20, 2010 – Telling two little girls that their granddaddy passed on wasn’t the easiest thing to do. Owen Neff, my wife’s father, died Friday after a brief illness. We last saw him in Asheville at Thanksgiving. None of us expected him to pass away so soon. But then again, perhaps it’s never the right time.

Nasty editorial

By ⋅ October 19, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

NASTY EDITORIAL: The folks at the Mobile (Ala.) Press-Register feasted on some Andy Brack on Sunday with a nasty attack editorial that went so far as to try to invite me to move out of the South. Why? Because of some things I said at a recent Oxford American panel and in a Huffington Post op-ed. Read more >>

9/29: Invest $10 billion in the Gulf

By ⋅ September 29, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

SEPT. 29, 2010 — If you listen to the rhetoric and political grandstanding surrounding the Gulf oil disaster and ongoing cleanup, much of the talk is about people getting their lives back to normal — to how things were. But is this really the right focus? Just look at how things have been. [Article first appeared in Huffington Post]

Check out Better South report

By ⋅ September 11, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

The Center for a Better South has released a major report packed with solid, big ideas on ways for the Gulf region to recover and move forward following April’s horrible oil disaster.   Click here to download the report.

Gulf photos make impact

By ⋅ August 30, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

AUG. 30, 2010 — Today marks the 100th photograph posted to our BetterGulf.org photo blog that tells stories in pictures about what’s happening along the Gulf of Mexico following the big April Deepwater Horizon well disaster.

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