The 2016 General Assembly is more than 50% over and Georgia is still here. Barely. “Gas Station Women” by Phil Ochs.  Kasim Reed says the Sanders “foolishness” won’t fly in GA.  Left-leaning economists also not feeling the Bern.  Could CNN be leaving Atlanta?  Or is Robin Meade’s 100k commode the bigger story? Atlanta “doesn’t get” historic

The growing spat between Speaker Ralston and Senator Josh McKoon of Columbus got a bit more tense today. To review, on Thursday, as the House was preparing to pass the Pastor Protection Act, Senator McKoon took to the well to lament that the Pastor Protection Act was in reality a Politician Protection Act. As the

Senator Greg Kirk of Americus introduced a substitute version of the Pastor protection Act in the Senate Rules Committee on Tuesday that combines the measure previously approved in the House with a modified version of the Pastor Protection Act, Senate Bill 284. After an hour-long hearing in the Rules Committee, the measure received a Do

Senator Josh McKoon went to the well in the Georgia Senate this morning with the purpose to draw attention to the exchange he had with the Speaker’s Counsel Terry Chastain following Thursday’s session. Per McKoon, “The Counsel for the Speaker of the House just used some language to describe me that I cannot post here

Senate Bill 330 will receive a hearing this afternoon at a meeting of the Senate Transportation Committee. The measure, sponsored by Brandon Beach would allow the MARTA counties to levy a one half percent sales tax which would be used to pay for MARTA expansion. Should the bill pass in Fulton and DeKalb counties, it’s

In this third installment of Become a Budget Expert from PolicyBEST, we see how the state plans to spends your money this year. The two largest state policy expenditures are education, which is over 50% of the budget, and healthcare, which is 22%. Also, it’s important to keep in mind the planned increase in transportation

Once upon a time back at the old place, we were more of a comment driven blog. Times have changed and I don’t expect us to return to all of those days. That said, I do like the idea of promoting comments worthy of celebration to their own front page post. With that preface, I

Michael Thurmond will make it official later this week: he’s running for DeKalb CEO. The continued existence of a CEO position in DeKalb — unique in Georgia county governance — is an open question with legislation pending to end the position in favor of a commission chairman system. And the job itself looks like a

Good morning! Have you seen this yet? NPR SCOTUS correspondent Nina Totenberg’s Scalia coverage. Of course there are Scalia death conspiracy theories. The only surprise is that it took this long. Also from NPR, why the President is the President (History had its eyes on him.) …and speaking of Presidents, why are 43 of their

As Barack Obama considers who should replace Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia (and he should be able to, this is pure crybaby-ism from Republicans and Democrats would do the same thing were they in the GOP’s shoes, too), there’s a Georgian who should be strongly considered: former Supreme Court of Georgia Chief Justice Leah Ward