Dick Yarbrough is now in his 26th year as the most-widely syndicated newspaper columnist in Georgia, reaching over a half-million households each week in more than 50 newspapers throughout the state. His columns have been recognized numerous times with first-place awards for humor from the Georgia Press Association.
Prior to becoming a columnist, Yarbrough retired as vice president of BellSouth Corporation and was later a managing director of the 1996 Centennial Olympic Games in Atlanta.
Dick Yarbrough is a graduate of the University of Georgia and past president of the National Alumni Association.
To quote Mark Twain when he read a report he had died: “The report of my death was an exaggeration.” So was my influence on the outcome of the PSC elections.
Color me bummed. I found out last week that despite my sterling silver credentials, it seems my chances of being appointed Duke of York have been flushed down the loo.
It was just a small paragraph buried in the news briefs inside the paper stating that the U.S. was drawing down its mission in Iraq under an agreement with the Iraqi government.