(1/3) Today, we mourn the lives of five law enforcement officers who were gunned down during an anti-police protest in Dallas last night. — Governor Nathan Deal (@GovernorDeal) July 8, 2016 (2/3) @GAFirstLady & I pray for the healing of seven additional officers who sustained injuries during this senseless attack. — Governor Nathan Deal (@GovernorDeal)
It is a bittersweet feeling to put pen to paper and write this, but my time in Georgia comes to an end this week as I move Chicago for a new teaching position. At the end of every semester, I deliver a final lecture to my students. Today, I give you my last post.
Another fiscal year, another bushel of new laws. Hear that buzzing in your ear? Run away! Run away! Ouch! Let them eat cake. Or something. What golf course did this happen on? Please, make it stop! Everybody’s office party. Now everybody thinks they stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night. Winter is coming. (After
The Fannin County District Attorney has dropped the felony charges against Mark Thomason, publisher of the Fannin Focus, and attorney Russell Stookey. The AJC’s Rhonda Cook is reporting: Appalachian Judicial Circuit District Attorney Alison Sosebee dropped today the three felony charges brought against the publisher of a local weekly newspaper and his attorney that were
Alex Johnson, the failed contender for GAGOP Chairman and apparent sore loser, sent out an email newsletter that tries to vilify my friend and fellow district chairman Brad Carver. Interestingly enough, Johnson doesn’t mention Chairman Carver by name in his email (you have to click-through to a PDF that lists small donations to Democrats). Needless
If Washington gridlock could be captured by one issue, it would be immigration reform. Not since the 1990s have the House, the Senate, and the President been able to agree on legislation that addresses the country’s 11 million undocumented immigrants, nearly half of whom come from Mexico. On Wednesday, history repeated itself in the U.S.
Today is the 70th wedding anniversary of Rosalynn and Jimmy Carter. Seventy Years. I put Mrs. Carter first in that opening sentence because President Carter is usually the first in the headlines and to speak. For 70 years she’s been dutifully by his side. She’s been a full partner during that time, with each dividing
On this date in 1981, President Reagan announced he was nominating Sandra Day O’Connor to become the first female justice on the US Supreme Court. Peaches Criminal repercussions from SunTrust Park parking snafu? The tree police are taking over Columbus. Oil off Georgia’s coast? It could still happen. Meanwhile, BIG MONEY for Savannah Port infrastructure. Jimmy Carter What
Randy Evans, who is one of Georgia’s members on the Republican National Committee, gave a whip count in a story in the Wall Street Journal that shows Anti-Trump delegates having at least a chance of allowing a floor vote on the presumptive nominee. As things stand, Trump has enough bound delegates to be elected on
Long live the days when Social Security was the third rail of American politics. It has been replaced by a program that is even more sacrosanct and impervious to reform: Medicare. On Tuesday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the PADME Act sponsored by Georgia Rep. Tom Price (R-6). PADME delays cuts to reimbursement rates for rural
