Happy Monday, everyone! State employees are off to observe Confederate Memorial Day “State Holiday” per Governor Deal. Enjoy “State Holiday,” y’all. Jawja Southern Baptists were asked to oppose the public display of the Confederate battle flag. After posting a video of herself shooting her children’s cell phones, DFACS took her children taken away for burning
It’s Friday, and we’re back in our regular slot for WGST GeorgiaPol radio at noon on 640AM. It’s been a rather eventful week as we’ve transitioned fully into campaign season. So what are we going to talk about today? Let’s see. We have prophet for profit Debbie Dooley discovering that threatening to sue isn’t the
Back in the depths of the Great Recession, much of Georgia’s slowing economy was caused by the collapse of the housing market. In metro Atlanta, houses sat unfinished in the middle of subdivision pipe farms as demand for new homes dropped. But the recession also had a tremendous effect in northwest Georgia’s flooring industry, where
Yesterday Governor Deal signed the legislation that gives the NFL tax exempt ticket sales on a potential Super Bowl in Atlanta in 2019 or 2020. Miami, Taampa and New Orleans are also in the running. As expected, legislators and others opposing the measure decried the action as a tax giveaway and/or corporate welfare. According to
Today is Earth Day. In celebration of such, I will pointlessly drive many miles, burn my house lights all night, and grill a freezer full of red meat for dinner. And for the grand finale, a roaring tire fire in the backyard. Nice! Coca-Cola City Bowman in the news again – this time for historic
Earlier this week, the Appropriations Committee passed its FY 2017 spending bill. Congressman Sanford Bishop sent out the following statement regarding the passage of the bill, and a round up of bill highlights. WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congressman Sanford D. Bishop, Jr. (GA-02), Member of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and
Governor Deal gave us a preview of an independent transportation study on 11 major projects planned for completion in the next decade and the results are good. The complete study by Cambridge Systematics, a nationally recognized firm, is due for release later this month. “These results are a testament to the positive impact this investment
On this date in 1862, Congress established the U.S. Mint in Denver, CO. Peaches Doctor fired for something he said in church Families of Georgia Southern students killed in crash will see settlement Help may be on the way for Atlanta traffic “Key words’ for Google searches of Georgians. (Do you even want to know?) Not
Congressman Doug Collins’ (R-GA-09) office sent out a press release concerning the House Judiciary Committee’s passing S. 1890, the Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016 out of its committee. Congressman Collins sponsored the House version. You can read the full presser below: Today, the House Judiciary Committee marked up S. 1890, the Defend Trade Secrets Act
There has been plenty of speculation recently over whether presidential candidate Donald J. Trump has been cheated out of delegates he should or should not have had to date in the primary process. In fact, Trump has received 204 more delegates than he would have if the delegates had been allocated by the percentage of
