In a two hour debate on April 9th, the five candidates for the 9th District Congressional seat debated a wide variety of topics. In previous posts, we covered taxes and national security. This post includes debate on budgeting and the appropriations process, funding Planned Parenthood, and what to do about the district’s water needs. Participants
This is one of a series of posts recapping the Hall County GOP debate between the candidates for the 9th congressional district seat held by Rep. Doug Collins. Collins faces primary challenges from former 10th district congressman Paul Broun, retired educator Roger Fitzpatrick, retired National Guard General Bernie Fontaine, and Lanier Tea Party Patriots founder
Find part one of the series here. The streams feeding the lakes of the Mainstreet Community subdivision have a silting problem. “We’ve been trying to get DeKalb County out here to fix this for five years,” said Nadine Rivers-Johnson, the community manager for the middle-income family subdivision off of South Hairston. “When we try to talk
Good morning! 71 years ago today, President Franklin D. Roosevelt died while having his portrait painted at the Little White House in Warm Springs, Georgia. The Little White House is well worth a visit, and nearby FDR State Park is one of Georgia’s gems. Today’s Reads: Beverly Cleary is 100 years old! A few things:
Over the weekend, the Hall County GOP held a debate between the candidates for the 9th congressional district seat held by Rep. Doug Collins. Collins faces primary challenges from former 10th district congressman Paul Broun, retired educator Roger Fitzpatrick, retired National Guard General Bernie Fontaine, and Lanier Tea Party Patriots founder Mike Scupin. Debate topics
Mohad Ragueh said he was one of the first people to respond to the fire Saturday. It started in a neighbor’s unit on the second floor, one inhabited by two sisters from Africa, their children, and a man they didn’t know well to whom they had rented one of the rooms, he said. When the fire alarms went
This week’s Courier Herald column: Starting at the beginning of this month, food stamp recipients in three Georgia counties who are “able bodied” and without dependents had to show that they either had a job or were in a job training program in order to continue to receive their taxpayer funded benefit. Volunteering at a
I discovered something about DeKalb politics as I went looking for the gears in the machine, and it’s been swirling around in my head, a Lovecraftian horror that might have spared me notebooks full of arcane twaddle, gibbering madness and self-destruction, if only I had ignored the early signs and stopped asking questions. Most people
Top Trump aide retweets endorsement from fake congressman pic.twitter.com/qdtTvyryJT — Ben Jacobs (@Bencjacobs) April 10, 2016 Happy Monday, everyone! At 8am, George Chidi will post part 1 of his four part series on a DeKalb election. Put your partisanship away for ten minutes and read his posts. There is always a nugget of wisdom in
Golf is one of those things that has a generational pull. Growing up in Cleveland in the early 1960s, I remember trips to my grandparents house, two hours away in New London Ohio. Frequently, these visits would involve a trip to the golf course, where dad, his two brothers, and my grandfather would engage in
