So. We’re going to have Nazis next week. They’re rallying in Newnan next Saturday. They have a permit, from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. to stand in Greenville Street Park and sieg heil behind barricades. This follows some dead-of-the-night flyer drops in Gwinnett County neighborhoods and elsewhere by the ethnofascist Patriot Front, an offshoot of
pil·lo·ry (pilərē) historical 1. noun: a wooden framework with holes for the head and hands, in which an offender was imprisoned and exposed to public abuse. 2. verb: put (someone) in the pillory. 3. verb: to attack or ridicule publicly. The Atlanta press corps had a chuckle a couple of days ago when text messages from the city’s former water department spokesperson
Kasim Reed, former mayor of Atlanta, has a reputation for interpersonal hostility, and that has little enough to do with his press release game. I have been told stories of tirades by staffers, by other journalists and by other politicians. I have personally heard him screaming at people who rubbed him the wrong way (looking
Suddenly, Democrats are defending an obscene government tax subsidy for a corporation that doesn’t actually need the tax break, because a Republican wants to punish the firm for ideological noncompliance. You’re getting played. I’d like you all to consider the possibility that, in light of the major tax changes at the federal level this year,
I rarely tell the story about why I left the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Usually, I tell people that in 2007 and 2008, the AJC was an unhappy place, and I had a path to something better. The AJC had been my dream job, though. Literally — the one big-city news job I had been working to
“Bushwick died!” The guy standing on the stoop at the Five Points convenience store whispered, almost, which itself is remarkable. The raucous, ridiculous plaza bears no whispers. People shout in Asher Square. It’s next to a subway station, and freight train tracks, and traffic on three sides. It’s made for shouting, and for shouters. The
My Facebook feed filled up over the weekend with memes attacking Mary Norwood, which shouldn’t be shocking given the stakes in Atlanta. A tape recorded conversation emerged about her appointment to the board of elections by the Republican Party. A meme screamed that she voted for Republicans all of 12 times, with no mention of
I’ve been telling people for months now who have been watching the mayor’s race in Atlanta not to sleep with Peter Aman at the door. I know Peter, and I’ve been as impressed with him as I have with anyone involved in public service in Atlanta. While serving last year as chairman of Partners for
Let’s talk about Alex Michael Ramos, State Sen. Michael Williams, and violence. Ramos is the guy on the far right of the now-famous picture of the III% Security Force with Williams at an anti-sharia protest at Piedmont Park in June. He was also recorded at the Charlottesville rally beating counterprotesters. Ramos attacked Deandre Harris with others.
An old friend from my time in the Army posted some drivel this morning from Infowars, claiming somehow that counterprotesters in Charlottesville started the violence over the weekend. It led to yet another tired argument about the right to protest and how the urge on the American Left to suppress unwanted speech is just like the Nazi
