The folks over at the National Rifle Association Political Victory Fund have issued their endorsements for next week’s elections. In general, the NRA issues a grade to each incumbent and candidate, based on their votes and/or responses to an NRA questionnaire. Candidates with no record or who did not return the questionnaire are not rated.
Despite not seeking reelection, Congressman Lynn Westmoreland will still have his staff out and about post-election doing mobile office hours. On Tuesday, November 15th, Westmorland will have representatives from his permanent district office in Newman, in Griffin and Lagrange in order to speak with constituents and to distribute information that would normally be only available
House Speaker David Ralston has been the subject of a complaint to the State Bar filed more than two years ago. It appears that the wheels of justice have finished grinding with both the Speaker’s lawyers and the State Bar asking to settle. From Aaron Gould Sheinin in the AJC: “Ralston’s attorneys filed paperwork Wednesday
For the fourth year in a row, the state of Georgia has been named the number one state in which do do business by Site Selection Magazine. The announcement was made this morning at the Capitol by the magazine’s Mark Arend, flanked by Governor Nathan Deal and former Georgia Economic Development head Chris Carr. Leading
The Georgia Department of Transportation (GA DOT) is looking at three possible high-speed train routes between Atlanta, GA and Chattanooga, TN. According to the GA DOT’s study, the best route would follow Interstate 75 with 8 stations over 128 miles. The route would take 88 minutes one-way—the fastest of the three possible routes. The idea
A candidate must get close to desperation when resorting to levying personal attacks on Facebook against an opponent. That’s what is occurring here in Walker County with our incumbent sole Commissioner Bebe Heiskell. I was sent a screenshot where Commissioner Heiskell accused Republican challenger Shannon Whitfield that he was given bad numbers, was deceiving people
These MRs may be posted on No. 2, but they are No. 1 in your hearts. “God Knows It’s True” by Teenage Fanclub. New America Foundation: GSU one of the few schools to get the use of big data right when tracking students’ academic progress. (Yawn…we’ve heard it all before). White voters in Gwinett are now
The Atlanta Hawks will have a $193-million-renovated aerie, thanks to Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed who undoubtedly considered the expense of potentially losing 75% of Atlanta’s sports teams during his tenure when deciding whether to cough up the dough. Atlanta will kick in $142.5 million of the money that will go to a massive mixed-use construction project
You may remember back in May 2015 when the Department of Community Health began to study a plan developed by Grady Hospital that would be able to provide health care to more of the poor without expanding Medicaid. This Medicaid waiver program would have used Medicaid dollars to set up locations that would provide care
The groups that believe the only solution for schools is “more money” have sent almost $3Million more to Georgia in order to protect the status quo and continue to trap children in failing schools and rob them of future economic opportunity. The October filing is out, showing the following contributions given to the “Committee To
