Happy Birthday wishes to Nathan Smith, a GeorgiaPol editor and an all around great guy. If you are looking for a good present for him, I hear he appreciates gift certificates for lawn care services.
The Savannah City Council hopes to include a $41.5 million revitalization project in their next SPLOST referendum, and it’s of the scale that is best described as transformative: The proposed Canal District around the planned arena west of downtown is expected to feature a 55-acre park with lakes, walking and biking paths, and athletic fields, said
A lawsuit representing the Georgia State Conference of the NAACP, the Troup County NAACP, Project South, and seven residents of LaGrange was filed in Atlanta Thursday, alleging that the city illegally restricts access to basic utilities with policies that unfairly target African-Americans and Latinos. The city of LaGrange, the sole provider of utilities in the area, disconnects
Savannah’s got canals? Who knew? More Savannah – cool machines in the latest Aliens movie were made there. Ponce City Market type development in Tucker? Atlanta taxi driver’s unhappiness continues. Big voices. Big flowers. Testudo. Unknown if they’ve been trained to stand on the castle walls and taunt the drones a second time. Unmasking terrorism:
The CHRONIC Care Act of 2017, introduced by Sen. Isakson (R-Ga), Sen. Hatch (R-Utah), Sen. Wyden (D-Ore) and Sen. Warner (D-Va), passed unanimously out of the Senate Finance Committee today and heads to a full Senate vote. The bipartisan legislation could have a major impact on curtailing the cost of Medicare, as the legislation seeks to
Due to a technical glitch, your Morning Reads are now Afternoon Reads – mgt. On this date in 1896, the US Supreme court upheld the “separate but equal” policy in the Plessy vs. Ferguson decision. The ruling was overturned 58 years later with Brown vs. Board of Education. Peaches The case for Stacey Abrams Here we
With Plant Vogtle on the eastern side of the state receiving a barrage of bad news and bad press over the past few months, Georgia Power has been looking for something — anything —that could counter all of the negativity and reframe the debate abut clean energy in Georgia. With the announcement Tuesday of an 800 acre
I am forced by circumstances to compare Sheriff Jeffrey Mann of DeKalb with another local sheriff who found himself facing public ignominy: Victor Hill. As we hear calls for Mann to resign in the wake of an embarrassing arrest in Piedmont Park, it’s probably instructive to remember that two years and a week ago Hill
The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) has released a new ad against Jon Ossoff in the GA-6 runoff race. The ad states that Ossoff is guilty of resume puffery, stating that Ossoff touted 5 years of security clearance instead of the actual 5 months he had the clearance.
Poultry enthusiasts and property rights advocates thought things would be different with the election of Commission Chairman Mike Boyce, but it seems they thought wrong. Cobb County Commissioners voted Tuesday evening to reject a zoning variance which would have allowed a family to keep three chickens on their family property in a Cobb subdivision. Natallia Vilchenko presented her
