Bill Crane

Columnist

Bill Crane has been a political analyst and commentator for 20 years. A former communications staffer for two U.S. Senators and one Governor in both major political parties, Crane 'grew up' in Georgia politics in a newspaper family. Crane owns his own corporate communications firm in Decatur, CSI Crane, LLC. He is a regular guest on WDUN's "Morning Talk with Martha Zoller," His weekly syndicated column is entitled "One Man's Opinion," and draws on his experience, good humor and life as a son of the south.

The GOP That Used To Be

I grew up in suburban metro Atlanta, Georgia, under one party and primarily Democratic rule.

9:00AM ( 1 year ago )

BET On Tyler Perry

The motion picture and television production industries domestically are temporarily stalled by a Writer's strike, and though much of the industry now is distributed across many right-to-work states like Georgia, the related artistic and production unions are honoring the strike, refusing to cross picket lines and placing an indefinite pause on millions in productions by major and minor studios alike.

9:00AM ( 1 year ago )

Not So Set In Stone

It is the world's largest outcropping of granite, and on its northeastern elevation, is the world's largest bass relief carving, nearly three football fields long and 90 feet tall, a trio of Confederate leaders, President Jefferson Davis, General Robert E. Lee, and General Stonewall Jackson, facing the eastern horizon on horseback.

9:00AM ( 1 year ago )

A True Turf War

Memorial Day weekend and the official start of summer are here. Pools open, park use explodes, festivals and outdoor concerts and events fill your summer calendars in communities across Georgia.

9:00AM ( 1 year ago )

One Man's Trash

Cleveland, Ohio is by all estimations on the rebound, however, like many of America's great industrial cities of the Midwest and Northeast, it was crippled by the industrial and jobs migration into the Southeast, from the 1970s to the present day.

9:00AM ( 1 year ago )

How Technology Helped Save the Day

In the immediate and tragic aftermath of the Midtown Atlanta shooting of five unrelated women in a doctor's office waiting room on Wednesday, May 3rd, officers from almost every city/county police agency in metro Atlanta, as well as the Georgia State Patrol, SWAT teams and multiple Sheriff offices, converged on the area.

9:00AM ( 1 year ago )

I'm Still an A.M. Radio Fan

The 'death' of AM radio was first foretold with the advent of television. The number of AM and Low Power AM stations only grew. And again, as the better fidelity and stereo sound of FM eclipsed its older sibling, again the dearth of AM frequencies was forecast...and then the birth of Talk Radio and AM audiences only exploded.

9:00AM ( 1 year ago )

They Don't Make 'Em Like That Anymore

As a teenager growing up in Griffin, Georgia, Scott Slade would point out the local radio station in a two-story walk-up just off the town square and say, "Someday, I'm going to be working there."

9:00AM ( 1 year ago )

The dying custom of shared sacrifice

Granted, the past year and change have been tough on almost all of us. Global pandemics have a way of leaving a mark.

9:22AM ( 3 years ago )

Time for more?

For the third time in as many months, Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms was holding a press conference, to acknowledge the tragedy of another child killed, this time among the crossfire of 20 shootings in just one Atlanta weekend.

9:23AM ( 3 years ago )