This week’s Courier Herald column: JCPenney, once among the nation’s largest and proudest retailers, announced last week that it would be closing an additional 138 stores nationwide. Five Georgia stores, including those in Dublin, Macon, Milledgeville, Thomasville, and Tifton will be shuttered. While JCPenney has had recent struggles trying to define its brand and marketing
Georgia is getting serious about training students for careers in cyber security. In January, Governor Nathan Deal announced a $50 million investment in the FY2017 amended budget for the Georgia Cyber Innovation and Training Facility in Augusta. The new center will complement the U.S. Army Cyber Center for Excellence at Fort Gordon, which has been
Happy Monday, y’all. I hope your liver is sufficiently recovered from then weekend’s shenanigans. Your dignity, well, that’s probably long gone. State White pastors apologize for the church’s silence on lynchings. Georgia, but in 1987. A Hall County middle school teacher was arrested for possession of $6 million worth of drugs. Why is Georgia filled with
Elections for the new city of Stonecrest started off with a curious, interesting dispute over the age of a city council candidate, and have devolved over time into one of the ugliest political races DeKalb County has had in quite a while. And yes, that’s saying something. Mystery mailers — a staple of DeKalb politics
Today is the day when the counties who didn’t host their county conventions earlier to hold them. With the train wreck change in leadership in the Cobb County GOP last weekend, we’ll see what today holds. To those who will be attending today’s precinct mass meetings (those under 80K, like my home county of Walker,
From a press release (with some added emphasis) from the Judson Hill campaign entitled “Judson Hill calls on City Councilman Bob Gray to immediately address the late breaking ‘False Prophet’ charge:” Judson Hill has called on City Councilman Bob Gray to immediately address the late breaking ‘False Prophet’ charge and, with certifiable documentation, prove it
Amy Kremer, a Republican candidate for Congress in Georgia’s 6th district and a person with whom I share no relation, has a little problem. Her entire campaign staff quit. But why? Because of another little problem: She isn’t raising enough money to have a campaign staff. Her former campaign manager sent out the following press
Everybody’s Irish today! Get your Irish on in the ATL today. Finally. But there’s still plenty of time to screw it up. Heaven forbid. How do YOU say it? Dolly Parton keeping her word. Say it ain’t so! Final destination. Good grief. Good Grief, Part II. No matter what you think, you’re a racist. That
UPDATE:: Apparently there’s a thing in browsers called a cache, and if you have an out-of-date one, it can lead you to false errors on various websites, such as DanMoody.com which is working fine, as now reflected in this post. In keeping with our long-established editorial policy, we regret the error and blame others. We posted a
According to a press release from Mercer University, President of Young Harris College and former Secretary of State Cathy Cox has been named Dean of the Mercer Law School. The full press release can be read here, and an excerpt is below the fold. Welcome to Macon, Dean Cox.
