Author: Charles Hayslett
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The rural broadband train arrives at the Gold Dome. Grab your wallet.
Last May I was asked to present some of my Trouble in God’s Country research to the opening session of the House Rural Development Council down in Tifton. The first question I got after completing my presentation was about something I hadn’t even touched on – the idea of running broadband to rural Georgia. The…
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Thanks, Mr. President, for giving us a new way to think about Georgia’s declining regions
By Charles Hayslett File this under every-cloud-has-a-silver-lining. President Trump’s characterization of Haiti and various South American and African countries as “shitholes” may have torpedoed a DACA deal, triggered a global diplomatic uproar and made it more likely that the federal government will shut down this weekend. On the bright side, it also gives us a…
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South Georgia vs. Gwinnett County
Here’s an easy way to understand the widening gap between Metro Atlanta and the rest of Georgia. Compare all 56 counties of interior South Georgia to Gwinnett County alone. Gwinnett County’s 2013 population was estimated at 859,304 – just under three-fourths of the 1.16 million people living in our 56-county South Georgia region. But despite…