Barring intervention from the Butts County Superior Court in the next two hours, Joshua Bishop will be killed by the state tonight. Earlier this morning, the State Board of Pardons and Paroles denied clemency to the 41-year old inmate after weighing his life overnight. Bishop’s lawyers filed a last-ditch appeal Tuesday, arguing that the jury that convicted Bishop over 20
Georgia’s next battle and big ballot issue for November is the failing schools amendment for the Opportunity School District proposal. However, Governor Deal might have lost some political capital when he vetoed the religious freedom bill, and the backlash might now cloud support over the amendment, according to a story from 11 Alive. The OSD
Announced in a press release, Georgia’s Attorney General Sam Olens, along with the Federal Trade Commission and agencies from every US state, was granted a permanent injunction to disband two nationally-operated sham cancer societies on March 30, 2016. The now dissolved societies, Cancer Fund of America Inc. (CFA) and Cancer Support Services Inc. (CSS), operated
We’ve heard people claim Donald Trump has the potential to expand the GOP voting base for nearly nine months–particularly blue-collar workers in Midwestern states such as Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan. Other people say a Trump candidacy will produce a map similar to Barry Goldwater’s 1964 catastrophe. Of course, it’s only March. We have a little over seven
Walter Jones is the political reporter for the Morris News Service, providing political content since 1998 for a consortium of newspapers including the Athens Banner-Herald, the Savannah Morning News, the Georgia Times Union and the Augusta Chronicle. I’ve covered news events with him in locations as diverse as the Varsity, the North Atlanta Trade Center,
The Office of Attorney General Sam Olens has cited the Hospital Authority of Valdosta and Lowndes County -which is in charge of South Georgia Medical Center – with a fine and training requirements following the authority’s failure to comply with open government laws. The punishment follows an investigation stemming from a February meeting where the
On this date in 1906, the Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States was founded to set rules in amateur sports. The organization became the National Collegiate Athletic Association in 1910. Peaches Valdosta hospital slapped with open records fine. Columbus State losing financing was a federal crime? Georgia State professor whines about campus carry prospect. Palmetto
On Monday, Governor Nathan Deal vetoed HB 757. Just now, I’ve received my third email from Mike Crane’s congressional campaign on the matter. Two of the three were direct fundraising emails. This latest one puts Senator Crane directly into the “ScamPAC” territory. In the email, Crane threatens a false deadline of 48 hours “to choose”.
University System of Georgia Chancellor Hank Huckaby told a Wednesday lunchtime meeting of the Gwinnett Chamber of Commerce about efforts the Board of Regents are making to reduce expenses and make higher education more affordable for Georgia students. Huckaby told the audience that at the same time that he became Chancellor in 2011, the state’s
In a press release dispersed by Senator Johnny Isakson’s office on Tuesday, it was described that Senators Johnny Isakson and Chuck Grassley recently authored a letter to the VA Secretary, Robert McDonald. The senators both expressed concern over the VA’s current practice of placing veterans on a gun ban list without first determining whether or
