Patrick Graham

4 days ago | waltontribune.com | Patrick Graham

Dear Mom,So, sometimes there is so much going on it’s really a  little hard to nail down what I’m going to lead with in this letter to you each Mother’s Day. Yeah, this year, not so much. Don’t get me wrong, life both personally and professionally is just as crazy as ever, but there is nothing you are going to be more interested in than what I’m about to tell you. You have a new great grandchild in the family, and believe it or not, it’s a boy!Yes, the streak has ended.

1 week ago | waltontribune.com | Patrick Graham

The early 2000s were one of the heydays of bank consolidation, and more and more banking customers locally were finding the decisions affecting them and their banking needs were being made not just in other parts of the state, but other parts of the country as well. In fact, those critical banking decisions were being made by people they’d never met and they were never going to meet. Complete strangers.

1 week ago | waltontribune.com | Patrick Graham

Rosie the Riveter is perhaps one of the most iconic images in our country’s history, the face of a recruiting campaign representing millions of American women who entered the workforce during World War II to take over factory jobs previously held by men who were going from the assembly line to the front line to fight in the war instead.

1 week ago | waltontribune.com | Patrick Graham

Last week, President Donald Trump held a cabinet meeting coinciding  with his first 100 days in office, and he asked cabinet members, government department heads if you will, to update him, the media and the public about what had been accomplished relative to the president’s agenda in their respective departments in these early days of his administration. Of course, there were a lot of smiling faces in the room and why not?

2 weeks ago | waltontribune.com | Patrick Graham

If you took a poll and asked most folks in Walton County how they feel about the direction our community is headed, I’m guessing the majority, and perhaps the vast majority, would tell you they feel pretty good about where we are and where we are headed.                   How, exactly, does that happen? Particularly when if you asked the same question of residents of other communities you likely would receive a very different response?