WSB TV’s Nefertiti Jaquez reports that the news of Georgia’s new City of South Fulton hiring its first police chief doesn’t seem to be news. The actual news appears to be a unilateral action of long time South Fulton Commissioner turned Mayor Bill Edwards selecting a Mayor, and surprising his council. Jaquez does an excellent
CNBC is reporting that Dr. Brenda Fitzgerald has resigned as the head of the CDC. Dr. Fitzgerald has come under fire for trading tobacco stocks as CDC Director. Dr. Brenda Fitzgerald, who is an ob-gyn, also had owned stock in other tobacco companies prior to assuming her post almost six months ago as one of
So “Atlanta Monster” has taken a pretty wild turn. Thoughts? GSU gets $80 million for new 8,000-seat basketball arena/convocation center. GSU is the state’s top/only ranked basketball team. The latest quixotic attempt to defeat Sanford Bishop is underway! Methinks the mayor and city council should probably get their legislative wishlist done soon. Pete Marin vs
Rep. Sanford D. Bishop, Jr. (GA-2): “The President talks of bipartisanship, and I am truly hopeful that this talk is genuine. However, actions speak louder than words, and the President’s actions thus far have been hurtful and divisive. I hope his rhetoric tonight will be followed by a new spirit of bipartisan, bicameral cooperation that
Rep. Buddy Carter (GA-1): “President Trump spoke tonight about the strong state of our union. Over the past year, Congress has worked with President Trump to produce concrete results for the American people. Due to a bold agenda and pro-growth legislation like the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, our economy is growing, unemployment is down,
Former Georgia Governor and current Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue is serving as tonight’s designated survivor during President Trump’s first State of the Union address. For those who aren’t aware of how fake President Kiefer Sutherland Tom Kirkman took office, one member of the president’s Cabinet sits out the speech in a safe, undisclosed location in
Georgia’s Congressman Doug Collins continues to get reports on the positive impact the passage of the Tax Reform and Jobs Act has had on businesses and their employees throughout the 9th District. Mincey Marble, founded in 1977 in Gainesville, is a manufacturer of cast marble products for hospitality, healthcare and other markets around the country.
“Unless we provide the appropriate tools of supervision that facilitate a successful reentry into society, history has shown that offenders simply return to the prison population. Right now in Georgia, nearly one in three leaving our prisons are reconvicted within three years. We must shut this revolving door! This is something we can do and
You may recall last year’s announcement by AT&T of rolling out fixed wireless in rural parts of Georgia. In less than a year, AT&T has deployed the service in 46 counties with the ability of serving 27,000 locations, according to AT&T. The wireless service guarantees at least 10 Mbps download and 1 Mbps upload speeds.
Good morning! It’s Legislative Day 12. Governor Deal announced today that his wife, Sandra Deal, will undergo treatment for breast cancer. It was, thankfully, detected in its early stages during the First Lady’s annual mammogram. (Ladies of a Certain Age: get a mammogram!) Somewhere in West Point, there’s a millionaire who either doesn’t know he’s
