So, who’s surprised? Truthfully? UGA moves up to #5 National Guard cyber units were called into Washington, Illinois, and Wisconsin. Wonder if they had any fun yesterday? $2.2m to get out of a price fixing lawsuit, chicken. Visual effects companies are reaping the rewards from production of films in Georgia. $1b in profit sharing over
(NOTE: Machines are now working at Anniston Elementary.) Electronic voting machines in four Gwinnett County polling locations malfunctioned on Election Day, county officials said Tuesday. The yellow cards that voters use to record their votes on each machine were not working with the machines, said Gwinnett County spokesman Joe Sorenson. Annistown Elementary and Suwanee public
Remind me, what’s today? I compile (curate?) the GeorgiaPol Morning Reads every Tuesday, which means that I get to do them every Election Day – and I decided a while back that it’s best if Election Day Morning Reads are wholly apolitical. If this makes you twitchy, go play Tetris for an hour or so
This is an on-going series of letters that I’m writing to my son Lucas. This is one I wrote on Election Day Eve and would share with the wider audience. These are thoughts penned onto paper and are unedited. Enjoy. Tonight is the night before the election. This is probably the most strenuous election that
My-repost of this has become a weird election-eve tradition. Hadn’t even had time to think about it with the duties of the day, until pinged. It’s that time again, with a lot on the line for a lot of folks. A lot of time tonight to think about tomorrow. And, the day after tomorrow. The
The New York Times reports that Amazon is finalizing their HQ 2 plans with the intent to split their second headquarters’ 50,000 employees between two East Coast cities – neither of which is Atlanta: The company is nearing a deal to move to the Long Island City neighborhood of Queens, according to two of the
Win or lose, Democrats in Georgia have succeeded in doing something that they have not done well in the past. Democrats in Georgia have coalesced around all the Democratic candidates. After the divide caused during the 2016 election, Democrats showed the ugly side of our primary system and still have not recovered. Primary elections are
At the end of the day, public policy in Georgia is set by the Georgia General Assembly on the critical issues facing our state and communities’ future, including issues of transportation, education, crime, tax fairness, and economic development. Being an inside the perimeter Republican let me discuss eight critical races and why I believe it
The following opinion piece is from Hal Scherz, M.D., the chief of urology at Scottish Rite Children’s Hospital in Atlanta, vice president of finance at Georgia Urology, and board secretary at Docs 4 Patient Care Foundation. While we are thankful for the submission, we at GeorgiaPOL don’t care to be pressured publicly on social media to publish