Last Wednesday, the U.S. House Financial Services Committee passed H.R. 4894, which would repeal Title II of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. Georgia’s Third District Congressman Lynn Westmoreland (R) is behind the bill, and yesterday his office sent a press release about the need for it, Capitol Corner: What Repealing Title

I think everyone would agree that traffic congestion in metro Atlanta is so complex that it will need multiple options to make significant reductions in travel time. The existing and under construction toll lanes, bus rapid transit and other public transit, staggered work hours, car pools and a host of other ideas will work in

Good morning! NPR launches their “School Money” project with a look at funding gaps between different U.S. school districts. (The website also knows where you are, but because it’s NPR, they’re totally nonchalant about how they’re tracking you, like, “Our best guess is that you’re in Georgia, it’s all good, bro!”) Online news sites are

Beginning with the Colorado caucuses earlier this month, in which Ted Cruz won all the delegates to the Republican National Convention this July, and continuing through similar results in Wyoming and through last weekend’s Republican District conventions in Georgia, there have been plenty of blog posts and op-eds decrying the way the nominee of the

In case you forgot, the Republican Parties in each of Georgia’s 14 congressional district held conventions to elect national convention delegates and alternates.  Tim Bryant had GAGOP Chairman John Padgett on the air to discuss this weekend’s district conventions as well as the overall process.  Accusations by the Trump campaign of Cruz supporters being elected

This week’s Courier Herald column: Georgia’s emerging film and entertainment industry has spent the past decade going from a mostly conceptual phase to one where the roots are firmly planted in Georgia soil, and fruits are regularly harvested. As the industry begins to mature and expand, it’s also showing evidence of meeting the long term

Representative Doug Collins, who has four challengers in the 9th District primary in May earned two endorsements for his candidacy. Former Congressman Jack Kingston announced his support today in a press release: Men like Doug Collins are a rare breed in Washington. What you see is what you get with Doug. He stands up for

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDDAa1If-u4 The Gays™ are running amok. Happy Monday, everyone! I spent my weekend at the 7th District GOP Convention rather than running the inaugural Disney World Star Wars Half Marathon. The world, I’m sure, wept with me. Jawja File this in the “YAAAAAAS KWEEN” cabinet: Chick-Fil-A has a customer rewards program. Debbie Dooley had a very bad,

In 2011, Caroline was a staffer for Johnny Isakson when she first got sick. She had just ended a 4 year relationship that she had expected to become marriage, not a return to single life. After a month of strange physical ailments and trips between Atlanta and DC things took a turn for the worst.

The Seventh District Republican Convention got a little testy this afternoon after initially rejecting a slate proposed by the nominating committee and then voting to send all but Debbie Dooley to the Republican convention in Cleveland. Instead of Dooley, convention delegates chose David Hancock, the head of the United Tea Party of Georgia. Roughly 70%