Per WSB TV’s Richard Belcher, Marta CEO Keith Parker is resigning to take a job at Goodwill Industries: EXCLUSIVE: Ch2 confirms MARTA CEO Keith Parker ready to announce resignation, probably today. Taking job w/ Goodwill Industries. @wsbtv — Richard Belcher (@BelcherWSB) September 5, 2017 This is bad news for both MARTA and the state as
Good morning! It’s (more or less) two months until (Special) Election Day. Atlanta Public Schools needs to borrow $100 million against future tax revenue because of cash flow problems – and this isn’t the first time. They had to do this last year, too, and assert that each time this action has been necessary, it’s
I asked Charlie if I wouldn’t have to labor over these Morning Reads. After telling me to get back to work and docking my imaginary week’s pay, here I am. Georgia Atlanta needs a strong chill pill. Happy Birthday to Georgia’s own twin pandas! West Nile Virus is on the rise and I’m shook. Campus
The Graham-Cassidy-Heller-Johnson Bill to repeal ACA* could make Georgia one of the few states to see an increase in Medicaid funding. According to a report from Avalere (about whom I know nothing other than I think they underwrite some NPR programming) the latest repeal effort would see 34 states and DC losing Medicaid funding from 2020-26.
Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp, also a candidate for Governor, issued the following statement in support of Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr’s decision to have Georgia enter into an amicus brief in support of protecting the Ten Commandments displayed on the lawn of the City Hall in Bloomfield, New Mexico. Sec. Kemp: “Georgians know
We are broadcasting live and on location from Nashville, Tennessee this morning! We’ve had a tornado and a flash flood warning, but hoping for some sunshine later on. Back at home… A miracle baby was found in a gym bag in Atlanta. My mama always said, “if you can’t say something nice…“ A now ex-deputy
It’s that time of year again when adults revel in the athletic accomplishment of boys “attending” schools we have no connection to, celebrate the work of each university’s highest-paid employee who is neither a researcher, teacher or administrator all while these institutes of higher education generate millions of dollars for themselves under the thoroughly-discredited sham of
Southern Company, parent of mega-utility Georgia Power, has distributed a press release this morning that they have decided to continue with the construction of Plant Vogtle units 3 & 4 – currently the only nuclear power plants under construction in the country. South Carolina utilities chose to scrap construction of their units in the past
On this date in 1992, former Georgia Congressman Charles Weltner passed away. He was an Atlanta lawyer and a vocal opponent of racial violence following the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education ruling. He was eelcted to serve in Georgia’s 5th congressional district in 1962 and was the first white Southern politican to condemn the 1963
Northwest Georgia Young Republican Beau Patton announced yesterday that he is running for state representative against incumbent Bruce Broadrick for the Dalton-centric 4th district seat: He made an announcement speech at the Northwest Georgia Young Republicans club meeting yesterday evening. “I’m not running on specific issues, I’m running to be a voice for the people
