Morning Reads for Friday, May 19, 2017

Savannah’s got canals? Who knew? More Savannah – cool machines in the latest Aliens movie were made there. Ponce City Market type development in Tucker? Atlanta taxi driver’s unhappiness continues. Big voices. Big flowers. Testudo. Unknown if they’ve been trained to stand on the castle walls and taunt the drones a second time. Unmasking terrorism:

Sheriff Mann Will Get Off

I am forced by circumstances to compare Sheriff Jeffrey Mann of DeKalb with another local sheriff who found himself facing public ignominy: Victor Hill. As we hear calls for Mann to resign in the wake of an embarrassing arrest in Piedmont Park, it’s probably instructive to remember that two years and a week ago Hill

Backyard Chickens Lose Again in Cobb County

Poultry enthusiasts and property rights advocates thought things would be different with the election of Commission Chairman Mike Boyce, but it seems they thought wrong. Cobb County Commissioners voted Tuesday evening to reject a zoning variance which would have allowed a family to keep three chickens on their family property in a Cobb subdivision. Natallia Vilchenko presented her

Collins legislation to increase veterans medical access

The Veterans Access, Choice and Accountability Act of 2014 gives veterans access to medical care from private providers under certain conditions. In practice the VA choose to ignore the spirit of the law and limit that access. Today Georgia 9th District Congressman Doug Collins introduced legislation to improve veterans ability to receive private health care options when

Morning Reads for 5/17

Which of these songs best represents your Mother’s Day (and I know one of these two will cover all of GAPol.com’s readership) “Mama Used to Say” by Junior or “I Wanna Get Rid of You” by Psychotic Pineapple?  Remember when Trump said Snowden should be “executed” for sharing classified info with Russia?  It’s nuts how