Happy Monday, everyone! It’s the final week of session, so buckle up and prepare to side eye everyone with a pulse. Jawja The Jawja General Assembly has major bills left You can still register for the Peachtree Road Race ICYMI: Kevin Spacey is perfect Oh, and the NFL is mad Jawja’s healthiest counties. Bet they don’t
As anyone following the spinning wheel of protest known as the #GAPol hashtag knows, there is a “Religious Freedom” bill sitting on the Governor’s desk awaiting his signature. …or veto. There has been a lot of hype and a lot of misdirection on this bill. Many still argue it wasn’t needed in the first place.
It’s 10a (ok, a few minutes after) which means Republicans across the great state of Georgia are now convened in their respective county conventions with the purposes of spending a spending a spring Saturday morning inside a building to elect delegates and alternates to their district and state conventions…and maybe a resolution or 20. What’s
The Georgia General Assembly will be winding down their 2016 session this coming week, but it’s been an…interesting week. Charlie Harper, Jon Richards, and Stefan Turkheimer get together on the 1st hour of the Sully Show and Rich “Sully” Sullivan let’s them loose with the microphones. This week, they cover a few items including the
Last week, we started peeling back the layers of the self-propelled myth that Paul Broun is in politics because he is in selfless pursuit of a constitutional nation. We’re using Matthew 7 to Judge career politician Broun on the fruits his political career has harvested. Thus far, the bushel basket contains the fact that he
Mere hours after the controversial HB 757 was passed, Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed said companies and conventions have expressed reservations about coming to and staying in Atlanta. Also in jeopardy, Reed said, was Atlanta’s bid for the Super Bowl. A report in The Atlanta Business Chronicle says Reed was “inundated” with phone calls immediately following the bill’s passage: “I
Arguably, one of the legacies of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB) and the more recent Race To The Top (RT3) initiative is an emphasis on accountability for public school students, teachers, and school districts that is measured heavily through standardized testing – and as a result, anti-testing movements have gained traction
Two. More. Days. 38 Legislative days are behind us. Most of the “major” bills of this session have been handled. Still to come are items that may give a path for limited MARTA expansion and, of course, the budget. Then there’s that little matter of Campus Carry that the Governor has respectfully requested the legislature
As is custom, those in the #GaPol will gather THE NIGHT BEFORE Sine Die (That’s Wednesday folks. WEDNESDAY night) to commiserate over the actions and inactions of this years Georgia General Assembly. We have a new location for this event: Hudson’s Grille in Midtown. It’s on Peachtree Street just south of 10th. Parking is available
Political capital is an odd commodity. In some cases, you can spend it, and end up with more than what you started with. Governor Deal’s promotion of criminal justice reform earned him votes in 2014 that he would not otherwise have had. In other cases, spending it the wrong way can quickly deplete your account.
