As the leaders and decision-makers of this great state, it is our responsibility to strive for perfection.

We are all one - or at least we should be - and it is our job, our duty, and our great challenge to fight the voices of division and seek the salve of reconciliation.

Business and the state have a common interest; not an adversarial interest.

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.

[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.

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