The race for Atlanta city hall is extremely crowded. Most of the seats including mayor, city council president, and most of the council seats are full of multiple candidates in each race. The mailboxes and voicemails of Atlanta residents are full of flyers and robocalls describing why each candidate is better than another. In this
On April 1, 2015, the mayor of Bowman, Georgia, announced that the city had struck a deal for a new Coca-Cola bottling plant, and as part of the incentives package, the Elbert County town would be known as Coca-Cola City. Note the date. Yesterday, October 2, the Stonecrest City Council passed a resolution as part
From the Savannah Morning News: The Savannah City Council approved on Thursday a resolution for Georgia lawmakers to rename the Eugene Talmadge Memorial Bridge, named for a former governor and segregationist. Mayor Eddie DeLoach said he wanted the city to be on the right side of history and that the bridge should no longer be
In Powder Springs, Lust is triumphant. Longtime readers may recall that in December 2015, Wisdom conquered Lust. I’m referring, of course, to the runoff election in which Patricia Wisdom defeated Henry Lust in the race for an at-large council seat by a whisper of a margin. Last month, business owner Lust qualified to run for
At least one metro area city has cancelled its November election after no one qualified to run against four city council incumbents. The City of Douglasville announced Friday that council members LaShun Burr Danley, Sam Davis, Mike Miller and Terry Miller are declared winners. The Douglas County Sentinel also reported that there are no official
Varnell is a small city in Whitfield County with a population of over 1,700. They have a police department as one of their city’s services. Well, they did until the city council made a surprise move this week and voted to disband the department. A little back story: The Varnell Police responded to a domestic
Kasim Reed is one of the 92 (and growing) mayors and governors who will continue to honor the Paris Climate Accord, even if the United States won’t. Using the conservative saw that local leaders know what’s better for their people than officials in D.C., this proves Trump’s decision was bad for Americans. According to my count, 33
Savannah Alderman Tony Thomas’ no good, very bad day has morphed into a no good, very bad couple of years. Last week, while the rest of us were distracted by Montana Congressman-elect Greg Gianforte treating a reporter very badly (or, more accurately, physically assaulting said reporter) for asking questions he didn’t like, Thomas too treated a
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
This week’s Courier Herald column: This is the second in a series. The introductory column can be found here. During the 1980’s, the Director of Georgia’s Cooperative Extension Service Tal DuVall published a study on “Two Georgias”, highlighting the growing disparity between a prosperous and growing metro Atlanta, and a mostly rural “other Georgia”. It
