Good morning! I try to find interesting stories from across Georgia for each Tuesday’s morning reads, but I’ll be honest, this week, the pickings are slim. If there’s something fascinating (and somewhat GAPOL-related) from your part of Georgia, please share a link in the comments. Meanwhile, it’s been A Week. GRU, we hardly knew you.

State Representatives Park Cannon (D-Atlanta), Karla Drenner (D-Avondale Estates) and Keisha Waites (D-Atlanta) issued statements today following Sunday’s mass shootings at the Pulse night club in Orlando that caters to the LGBT community. Cannon and Drenner are lesbians, while Cannon identifies as queer. From a press release: “Make no mistake, the LGBTQ community is under

Many members of Georgia’s congressional delegation reacted to Sunday’s terrorist attack at a gay nightclub in Orlando. Some issued press releases, while others took to social media for their response. Here’s what they had to say: Governor Nathan Deal, via Twitter: Sandra & I join Georgians in praying for the comfort & healing of all

This week’s Courier Herald column: The attack on the night club popular with the LGBT community was conducted by a terrorist that fit the usual profile. He had limited formal education, with much of his worldview set by by a stint at a fundamentalist camp that represented some of the most extreme views of his

This article was going to be about the screenshot of the social media post appearing with this article. It was going to talk about how petty it is for someone to play the victim card when 50 people were butchered, and more than that injured. It was going to be about political messaging and ego versus principle…

I’ve seen a lot of commentary on how the Republican Party needs to reach out: reach out to African Americans, Hispanics, Millennials, etc.  Perhaps rather than trying to reinvent ourselves to meet arbitrary demographic requirements, maybe we should look at ourselves and see how we can be more inviting. I see a lot of ink

So, yesterday sucked. We’ll get to that later on. Just hug your loved ones. Jawja A huge slip-n-slide is coming to Atlanta! Run. Miss Georgia is beginning. These ladies represent our state so well. Georgia judge, transgender name change, and Hawaii. All in one story! Yikes–Senator Perdue had a moment. Murica Yesterday’s terrorist attack is the

By now the magnitude of the tragedy that is the aftermath of an overnight terrorist attack in Orlando is becoming clear. The facts, such as they are being reported, indicate that 50 of our neighbors lost their lives overnight with another 50 wounded. On this Sunday, we begin by offering prayers. There is also a

Senator David Perdue’s press spokeserson reached out to GeorgiaPol in order to provide some context for the Senator’s remarks during his speech at the Faith & Freedom Coalition’s Road to Majority conference in Washington. While the senator quoted a portion of Psalm 109, a video and transcript of that portion of his remarks appears to