Kayla Goggin of Courthouse News brings word that the investigations swirling around Atlanta City Hall are growing. On top of the still unresolved bribery scandal, we now have a former employee of the City – the business manager of the Atlanta Police Department – claiming she was fired after discovering the City was using federal
I haven’t exactly made it a secret that I’m a supporter of Karen Handel. Karen is a friend. That’s not why I’m supporting her. If you’ve been around the block a few times, you learn in this business that sometimes you have to tell your friends you can’t support them. And why. This isn’t one
It looks like Brian Kemp has company. The AJC is reporting that Lieutenant Governor Casey Cagle has filed papers to run for governor in 2018. Cagle and Kemp are the only Republicans who are running so far (more analysis on this matchup is coming soon). No Democrats have announced yet, but House Minority Leader Stacey Abrams
The Georgia Ports Authority is taking over the world, Pinky expanding its influence and setting itself up to be “the East Coast leading gateway for containerized cargo.” It’s a title the GPA will share with the Virginia Port Authority, but who’s counting? On Friday, the Federal Maritime Commission approved the two entitites’ joint application to develop
An announcement made yesterday by Gov. Nathan Deal stated that Georgia’s net tax collections for March, 2017 totaled almost $1.57 billion, an increase of about $32.5 million (2.1%) from March, 2016. This brings the net tax revenue collections to $15.8 billion for the current 2017 -18 fiscal year, which is up $530.9 million (3.5%) from last
Congressman Tom Graves (R-GA-14), in conjunction with Georgia Tech, will be hosting a discussion on cybersecurity and what public policy would be beneficial in fighting cyber criminals on May 1st from 10a ’til 12p at the Technology Square Research Building (TSRB) Auditorium at Georgia Tech. From a presser: Rep. Tom Graves (R-GA-14) in cooperation with
The campaign of Jon Ossoff, a Democratic congressional candidate in #GA06, appears to have sent an email to supporters saying that Nate Silver, founder and editor of FiveThirtyEight, made the statement that the road to winning back the House starts with #GA06. A photo of the email’s headline was posted to Twitter with at tag back
Good morning! Start your day with this story from Australia, and marvel that it didn’t happen in Florida. Here are the 2017 Pulitzer Prize winners. Congratulations to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution! The AJC staff was recognized as a finalist in the National Reporting category. More than 21,000 people have already voted in the April 18 special election.
MoveOn.Org has released two videos urging voters to stand against President Trump’s desire to make changes to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) by voting for Jon Ossoff. Of note, the “Void” video shows the Georgia Hospital Association (GHA) as an ally of MoveOn.Org and Ossoff in standing against changes to ACA. It is interesting that the GHA
Georgia Life Alliance has announced its endorsements for the GA-6 and Senate District 32 special elections. All seven of the endorsements, five in GA-and two in SD-32, were all Republicans. The following are those that received the endorsement, including any exceptions they may have to preventing abortion. GA-6 Bob Gray – Exception for preventing the death
