There’s the high cost that’s obviously bad but most distressingly, we remain stuck as the nation’s fourth-most congested city and eighth-most in the world. This is despite my impassioned plea for us to climb up to number 1.   But worry not, Atlantans! The cost per driver of our congestion rose to $2,212. From the INRIX

We received a presser from Tricia Pridemore’s campaign to fill the District 5 Public Service Commission seat being vacated by Stan Wise. In the presser, Pridemore has raised close to $200,000 with over $185,000 cash on-hand in the first hundred days of her campaign. It’s a record haul for a non-incumbent candidate for Georgia’s PSC.

You have one week to finish writing your love letters to my MRs. Ten years ago today the Southwest Dekalb Drumline released their greatest cultural contribution.  The not-shocking high costs of new cities.  Jimmy Carter is still a draw.  How to reduce traffic: get cars off the road. Period. Half this cost would be better spent on

Guest post from Merrie Soltis: Last week, former USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar was sentenced to 175 years in prison -what will surely be a life sentence- for sexually abusing his patients. Nassar’s case has provoked nationwide outrage that a sexual predator was allowed to harm so many girls and young women for so long.

Well, ready or not it is that time of the election cycle for political ads to start hitting the airways. I have come across two so far, both from Republicans in the race to become Georgia’s next Governor. They both have an ex-military theme and they both enlist actors portraying all or some of their

You know that odd looking MLK bust near John Wesley Dobbs Dr. between Edgewood and Auburn Ave, in downtown Atlanta, just one exit up from the Georgia Capitol?  That is not Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.  That is a bust of John Wesley Dobbs, the “mayor” of Auburn Ave. John Wesley Dobbs was a Georgia

Georgia’s Senator Johnny Isakson and 8th District Congressman Austin Scott, yesterday introduced the Veterans Cemetery Benefit Correction Act, a bill to require the U.S. Department of the Interior to provide outer burial receptacles for veterans buried in cemeteries under the control of the National Park Service. In Georgia, this would include Andersonville National Cemetery. Current

Good morning! It’s one week until Mardi Gras! Applause. It’s swung from “Please clap,” to the notion that to not clap is akin to treason. Well. Today is Girl Scout Day at the Capitol. A couple of things: more than 300 Girl Scouts will be at the Capitol today, and they are serious about naming

The Senate today has passed a compromise adoption bill today 53-2, along the lines of an agreement reached last Thursday. The bill can now move to the Governor’s desk for signature, and Georgia’s children can become permanent members of their new families sooner and with less government bureaucracy involved. Representative Bert Reeves of Marietta needs

This week’s Courier Herald column: With the legislative focus on transit solutions for the metro Atlanta area, the topic of intercity rail throughout the state is also receiving renewed discussion. It seems logical, as the discussion presenting the real potential of extending passenger rail beyond Atlanta’s inner core could lead to a network connecting Georgia’s