02 September 2025

If You Don't Know, Now You Know: Greetings & Welcome to TPC!

The Town Square Podcast
 

Hello, all. 

I meant to publish this post last night in anticipation of today's drop of the latest edition of The Town Square Podcast hosted by old friend & current Newton Co BOE member Trey Bailey w/ yours truly - Marshall McCart - as the featured guest. 

While I know a pretty good number of folks who have listened (or will listen) to that podcast are already familiar w/ what we do around here, I'm sure at least a few are not so I thought I'd give you a bit of an intro. 

As we discussed on the show, I'm self-described as equal parts Citizen Journalist, "semi-professional ant hill kicker" & public advocate. I'm passionate about the home county (Newton), home city (Covington) & the Glorious Georgia Piedmont (particularly the quad-county area of Jasper, Morgan, Newton & Walton). 

Politically, I'm basically a conservative-adjacent, libertarian-leaning independent; or, to quote another writer - I'm usually being liberally conservative when I'm not being conservatively liberal. Basically I'm GDI. A true independent around the intersection of a Ron-Paul-Republican & Zell-Miller-Democrat. 

I'm for good government, and wise spending of tax dollars. 

I also tend to be inclined that many elected officials need a watchful eye upon them in order for them to do the right things & do things right. 

Mainly, I try to capture the REAL Politick, and always doing my best to keep it real. 

You can peruse some previous readings if you so desire. 

As I mentioned on the podcast, my posting has been a little light here lately but I do have a few things coming down the pike. Plus, we've got the off-year municipal elections this fall so we'll certainly be keeping an eye on that. 

Okay for now & hope all is well out there. 

- MBM