This week’s Courier Herald column: We’re now closer to the November election than we are to the moment when it became clear that the Covid-19 pandemic was not just an overseas problem but a domestic crisis. While there will undoubtedly be revisionist history on the government response to protect our public health and economy, a
Happy Mid-Morning Reads from the Covid 2020 Social Distancing beach…which is why you are getting mid-morning reads. My subtle “Happy Monday” text from Charlie was also my subtle “don’t make me fire you” text. Georgia hospital to close amid financial hardships Georgia’s school reopening plans can break along political lines Online classes could hit revenue
Georgia film industry still active. For those of us following the restoration of the Little House in Louisville (a.k.a Louise), this is heartbreaking news. There will be a run on popcorn next Tuesday. Logic? That was thrown out the window a while back. Opening Day(ish) is finally here. As baseball timidly dips its toe
Happy Thursday! Today is the 116th anniversary of the invention of the ice cream cone which was delivered to us by Charles E. Menches during the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis. Peaches Kemp and Bottoms talking settlement. Warren asks CDC to mandate masks, citing Georgia’s local ban. This Georgia city beat back COVID-19. Georgia
Good morning! Everything will be okay. A national perspective on Governor Kemp’s head-knocking with Mayor Bottoms, in which he wields a lawsuit, rather than a chainsaw. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo met with Mayor Van Johnson yesterday in Savannah. GHSA officially delayed the start of Georgia’s high school football season, in part because of a
Congratulations to Senator Nikema Williams for winning what is likely the smallest vote in Georgia’s history to send someone to congress. The Democratic Party of Georgia’s 44-member executive committee selected her as the replacement for the late John Lewis. Williams earned 37 votes. She will have to face a Republican, Angela Staton-King, but I don’t
The Democratic Party of Georgia (DPG) received 131 applicants for people seeking to be the Democratic nominee in GA-5 after the passing of Rep. John Lewis. Rahul Bali has announced via twitter that the list has been narrowed down to five: State Representative Park CannonAtlanta City Councilman Andre DickensRobert FranklinState Senator and DPG Chair Nikema
It’s Monday. It’s almost the end of July. There are families trying to figure out what “end of summer break” means and what “starting school” looks like. There are candidates preparing for run-offs with little to no actual face time with voters. Some people are headed back to “traditional” work settings and some are settling
As ghoulish as it may seem for Democrats to be jockeying to replace the late Rep. John Lewis in the House of Representatives, so soon after his passing, Georgia election law doesn’t give them much of a choice. The OCGA 21-2-134(b)(1)(B) says they have to replace Lewis’ name on the ballot by 4:00 PM “the next
Attorney General Chris Carr today announced that John Fowler of the Clayton County District Attorney’s Office has been hired to lead the Georgia Department of Law’s Prosecution Division – effective yesterday. In his announcement AG Carr said: I am looking forward to John Fowler’s leadership. Our Prosecution Division will continue working with statewide law enforcement partners
