Restless Boomer: May 2011

In his own words, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dan Cooper has done his time in the trenches, and is ready to return home from the legislative and budget wars of his six years as South Carolina House budget chief.

Read story at the Columbia Regional Business Report

Great moments, remembered . . .

... eating a freshly picked, ripe red tomato from my mother's garden
... eating fish and drinking wine near Split, with Lee and Patti, overlooking the Adriatic Sea on the Croatian coast
... almost colliding with a freighter while flying in a P-3 in pursuit of a Soviet sub 100 feet above the Norwegian Sea
... experiencing Georgian nightlife for the first time with Svetlana in Tbilisi
... drinking beer in a bar in Golden Triangle, with opium dealers at one end of the room and Burmese army soldiers at the other end of the bar
... dining on Longustino in a small cafe in Angra Do Heroismo, Azores, with a school teacher from Buffalo
... bicycling with Elizabeth, Sarah & Thomas on a country road in Champagne-Ardenne

Thursday, May 12, 2011

Cooper shepherds toughest S.C. budgets, and bows out