The class action lawsuit filed against the Secretary of State’s office has been dismissed because the plaintiffs in the case say their goal of having the office disclose the distribution of personal information on Georgia’s over six million registered voters. Kristina Torres of the AJC quotes the plaintiff’s attorney as saying, From our perspective, the

Senator Johnny Isakson gave a good-natured and mostly non-partisan speech before the Georgia House of Representatives today. Noting his own 14 years of service as a state representative, he greeted old colleagues and noted that “[Representative Calvin Smyre] is older than most of the statues on the front lawn.” His three-and-a-half minute speech focused on

Former State Representative Jeff Brown had formed an exploratory committee to consider a run in Georgia’s 3rd Congressional District to succeed Congressman Lynn Westmoreland a few weeks ago, but he has decided not to run for the seat: After much deliberation and input by many, former State Representative Jeff Brown has decided that he will not

(A petition has been added below.) My Facebook feed is awash in lies from the Daily Currant and Duffelblog and The Onion and Donald Trump, so perhaps I might be forgiven from assuming that Andre Walker‘s piece on Georgia Unfiltered was fiction, parody designed solely to provoke people like me. Alas. State Senator Donzella James

We now know the rest of the schedule for this year’s legislative session and lawmakers seem to be in a hurry to get out early: Crossover Day is February 29 and Sine Die is March 24. In odd-numbered years the session extends into May or at least mid April but even-numbered years see the legislature

I’ll add a personal note to this press release.  Mike Dudgeon is a thoughtful man.  He’s a statesman in a world where those that can be called that grow fewer among those who seek to make noise.  We’ve had many good conversations over the years.  On many things we agree.  On some we do not.

This week’s Courier Herald column: Government is a strange vehicle from which we translate the fickle desires and demands of short-term public opinion and translate them into the long-term infrastructure and institutions that will serve the next generation. Those who hope to be in politics or government for the long term need to have one

Georgia Republican Party Chairman John Padgett weighed in on Donald Trump, who is the current leader in polls of Georgia Republican primary voters, saying that the billionaire real estate developer isn’t a typical politician who can relate to average Americans because he doesn’t use political speak. Padgett made his remarks on WGAU Radio‘s Newsmakers with

We hope you survived what’s becoming known as #Snowzilla or #snowmaggedon2016. In Washington, they got one of the worst storms ever, and Speaker Paul Ryan let the country watch it with a live video from the Speaker’s balcony. God help anyone who didn’t get enough bread and milk to make it through. The reads continue

I turn 30 this year, so I’m sure a lot of folks will say “do you even know what a rotary phone or a pay phone is?”  Yes, I’ve used both a rotary dial phone and a pay phone.  In this day and age of digital communication, why am I interested in the history of