The ongoing public clash and controversy over the way in which police officers treat black suspects reached a new plateau in Atlanta this week when a city police officer who opened fire on an unarmed black man last month was charged with murder charge  Officer James Burns turned himself in

Those of us who have been around awhile have noticed that hurricanes seem to be getting worse and worse.  They were always a horrific threat to people who leave on the southeastern coast, but the apocalyptic destruction of storms like Katrina, Ivan and Harvey were pretty much unheard of in