Category: Politics

Enjoy this time with family and friends. And remember there’s an important football game on Saturday.

Happy Thanksgiving! If you are already in need of a break from the family activities, here’s enough reading to keep you busy for a while. Can we all just be more like these two? A holiday reunion. The most popular Thanksgiving side dishes by state And WalMart continues to draw the ire of…everyone. Peaches May

Former gubernatorial candidate turned voting rights activist Stacey Abrams has expanded her work into the entertainment industry. An adaptation of a novel penned by Abrams is being outfitted for a television show and, according to The Hollywood Reporter, Abrams will be an executive producer.  The novel “Never Tell,” which was published in 2004, will reportedly

We have just learned that Representative Jay Powell, House Rules Chairman, died suddenly last night during a House Leadership Caucus retreat. From Speaker Ralston – Friends, It is with profound sadness and a broken heart that I write to inform you of the passing of our colleague, dear friend and brother Jay Powell. Jay collapsed last

The raw data is pretty bleak on its own and a widely unequal city is bad. However, Atlanta’s ranking might be a sign of success or the victim of factors beyond our control. Atlanta’s average income for the top 5% of households exceeded $663,000 while families in the bottom half of the population earned less

Happy Thanksgiving Week! Let the turkey prep begin and the annoying family members ascend. And if you need a good laugh about what you might experience around the table on Thursday, try this. Georgia women’s college basketball star charged with murder, armed robbery. A Georgia state agency says it has money available to help fund

Herschel Walker, Mr. Football. Larry would be so proud. A little something to put on your Christmas List. (GeorgiaPol Road Show, perhaps? HintHint.) RIP, Fred Cox. Your story is never finished, as long as you’re alive. It’s a shame that these days we have to explain what “Be Nice” means, over and over again. The

Georgia Watch Congressman Lewis’s tribute to Johnny and take a moment to appreciate both Georgia gentlemen The wildly under-reported Republican flip of the 11th Circuit (GA, FL, AL) Teresa Tomlinson skips a debate in her hometown SoS Raffensperger introduces voting system to accommodate voters with disabilities Gwinnett Chairwoman Charlotte Nash proposes $1.83B budget Terror attack

Sen. Johnny Isakson has publicly endorsed former Rep. Karen Handel in the GA-6 Republican primary. The field has been narrowed to three Republican candidates after the recent exits of Brandon Beach and Nicole Rodden: Kenneth Brown, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and Karen Handel. Sen. Isakson: “Karen Handel is one of the hardest working people I know.

Five days after former State Senator Brandon Beach dropped out of the GA-6 race, Nicole Rodden has announced that she is suspending her campaign as Republican candidate for Congress in GA-6. From a press release from Rodden’s campaign: The motto for the United States Merchant Marine Academy is Acta Non Verba, meaning ‘deeds not words.’