It’s that time of year again when adults revel in the athletic accomplishment of boys “attending” schools we have no connection to, celebrate the work of each university’s highest-paid employee who is neither a researcher, teacher or administrator all while these institutes of higher education generate millions of dollars for themselves under the thoroughly-discredited sham of
Southern Company, parent of mega-utility Georgia Power, has distributed a press release this morning that they have decided to continue with the construction of Plant Vogtle units 3 & 4 – currently the only nuclear power plants under construction in the country. South Carolina utilities chose to scrap construction of their units in the past
On this date in 1992, former Georgia Congressman Charles Weltner passed away. He was an Atlanta lawyer and a vocal opponent of racial violence following the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education ruling. He was eelcted to serve in Georgia’s 5th congressional district in 1962 and was the first white Southern politican to condemn the 1963
Northwest Georgia Young Republican Beau Patton announced yesterday that he is running for state representative against incumbent Bruce Broadrick for the Dalton-centric 4th district seat: He made an announcement speech at the Northwest Georgia Young Republicans club meeting yesterday evening. “I’m not running on specific issues, I’m running to be a voice for the people
In a cryptic order signed today by Governor Deal, Marcia Norris, Spalding County Clerk of Superior Court and State Court is being investigative for apparent misconduct of some kind. According to the order, a formal request for the investigation came from officials within the Griffin Judicial Circuit.
From a press release: Attorney General Chris Carr today announced that Georgia recently joined a 23-state coalition in filing an amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court, which supports the City of Bloomfield, New Mexico’s decision to allow placement of a Ten Commandments monument on its city hall lawn along with other monuments. Earlier this
Last night, Governor Nathan Deal announced that he was sending a crew from the Georgia National Guard to Texas in order to help with the Hurricane Harvey relief efforts. WTOC reports that the 15-member crew is from the 165th Airlift Wing, and they are already in route to the affected area. They will be using
Disclosure: State Rep. Jason Spencer is my firm’s client and former State Rep. LaDawn Blackett Jones and I have appeared on TV together, usually doing a back-and-forth on election nights. I’m familiar enough with both to know that I shouldn’t try to change the mind of either. But when Spencer and Jones got into a
OK, so college football started last weekend. Whatever, GSU plays on Thursday. “Be True to Your School” by The Beach Boys. Associated Press digs the new GSU Stadium. ABC Q&A w/GSU P(res). Atlanta rescuing Harvey left-behind pets. Anheuser-Busch brewery in Georgia shipping water to Harvey-affected areas. Area laureate writes, recites poem for John Lewis. Albanians
About all we know from the latest WSB/Landmark Communications poll in the Atlanta mayoral race is that we still don’t really know anything consequential. Mary Norwood has 25% of the vote, Keisha Lance-Bottoms (who I have long thought would be a darkhorse for the runoff) narrowly edged Peter Aman for second place, 12.4% to 12.1%
