Rep. Doug Collins (R-Ga), the House Judiciary Committee’s ranking Republican, sounded off Monday at the Democratic members of the Judiciary Committee, tweeting: People not included in Judiciary Democrats’ investigation of @POTUS: Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, and Elvis. At this rate, best case scenario for their sprawling investigation is that we FINALLY discover who framed

It’s Tuesday in most of the world, but today is Mardi Gras in New Orleans. Here are 15 suggestions for how to celebrate in Metro Atlanta (but really all you need is to have the right attitude and the soundtrack from the link above). Meanwhile, it’s Women’s History Month. Learn more about famous Georgia women.

From Rep. Wes Cantrell (R, 22 – Woodstock): I believe in and fully support public education. I am a product of Georgia public schools, and I am a former Georgia public school teacher. My grandparents were Georgia public school educators. My mother served on the Georgia State Board of Education in the 1980s. My son

As Theresa mentioned in Morning Reads, yesterday was another devastating day for parts of Central and South Georgia. While Georgia was spared the loss of life that occurred just across the state line in Alabama, property damage was spread across the southern half of the state, with the towns of Talbotton and Cairo taking a

This week’s Courier Herald column Last week there was a bit of a kerfuffle involving House Bill 530, a bill aimed at parents who withdraw their children from school for the purpose of “avoiding compliance with laws relating to mandatory attendance, school discipline, parental involvement, or parental responsibilities.”  That sounds simple enough.  The bill’s primary

It’s a little gloomy in in our neck of the woods this morning. Southwest Georgia got hit hard yesterday by a tornado and our neighbors across the state line in Alabama lost at least 2 dozen people with more expected as first responders are able to clear debris this morning. Living in a border community,

Gwinnetians – don’t forget to vote on Tuesday. “Pending personnel matters,” my foot. Don’t we know how this ends? Yeah, but will Ripley have a cat? And an unwelcome visitor? “Unexpectedly.” Fire in the skies. Why we are so vulnerable. Everybody’s mind is in the gutter here. India and Pakistan are shooting at each other. Nothing’s

People who commit crimes against certain classes of people would be subject to harsher punishments under a new hate crime bill that passed out of the Judiciary Non-civil committee in the Georgia House this week. House Bill 426 is sponsored by State Representative Chuck Efstration and has the bipartisan support of Republicans Deborah Silcox and

Rest In Peace Mickey Channell Harry Truman once famously said, “A statesman is a politician who’s been dead 10 or 15 years.”  Truman never met a man like Mickey Channell – because Mickey was always a statesman.  A native of rural Georgia who proudly wore his allegiance to the University of Georgia as a badge of honor, Representative Mickey Channell came

Farewell February. You’ve been good to us, but hopefully March will bring some sunshine and warmer weather. Did you know that today is the 26th anniversary of Waco? Peaches FreedomWorks and the National Election Defense Coalition blast SOS and HB 316 Usurping local control in the name of economic development Teacher raise trimmed a little