Now that Columbia County has its first transportation sales tax public meeting out of the way, and another is coming, it would be useful in the interim to straighten some things out.

No, not the details of what the proposed additional tax will or won’t do. Information in that regard abounds for all who want to seek it.

What needs to be fixed, judging from reader comments after Wednesday’s hearing, are basics of the July 31 vote.

This is one of those times in Georgia politics when people realize that the legislative process has gotten a little off track and needs to be straightened out.

Republicans and Democrats alike are calling for ethics reform, particularly that loophole in state law that allows lobbyists to spend as much as they want to entertain lawmakers. This has resulted in such spectacles as a Speaker of the House taking his family on a $17,000 junket to Europe with the expenses paid by a lobbyist.

Wednesday’s groundbreaking ceremony for the new Columbia County exhibition center at the Gateway near Grovetown was organized by the Family Y, which will occupy about a third of the 47,000 square-foot facility.

Thus, most of the celebration for the golden-shovel event focused on the private organization that will be renting roughly 16,500 square feet of the facility from Columbia County.

When you’re on the wrong side of Planned Parenthood, you’re on the right side of history.

The left’s disingenuous and intellectually lazy “war on women” talking points have blown up in its face. Most polls show Mitt Romney fast gaining on President Obama with female voters. Some polls even show him pulling ahead.