This week’s Courier Herald column: I began writing this column in early 2011. It began after a lunch conversation with DuBose and Carol Porter. Both had just run for statewide office. They were rural Georgia Democrats. They were in the traditional print media business, running almost a dozen papers serving the greater I-16 corridor out
Score one for the good guys. Mayor Kasim Reed has named Jeremy Berry of Dentons to be the new City Attorney for the City of Atlanta. Per Meridith Hobbs of the Fulton County Daily Report: Dentons partner Jeremy Berry is the mayor’s pick for Atlanta city attorney. Mayor Kasim Reed announced today that he’s naming
A couple of weeks ago I previewed the need to get the issues of rural Georgia into the 2018 statewide campaigns. The plight of rural Georgia affects us all, as policy decisions made in Atlanta (and often influenced by the 55% of the state that live in “Atlanta”) make a disproportional impact in that other
The hour is late (early) and Fulton County is still Fulton Countying, but it appears most parties agree we have a June 20th runoff in CD6. As such, we have the following statements: From Georgia House Speaker David Ralston: “I’m proud to support Karen Handel as our next member of Congress from Georgia. Unlike her
Today in Georgia, we have the following special elections: Sixth Congressional District, State Senate District 32, Roswell Municipal Johns Creek Municipal City of Stonecrest (NEW!) City of South Fulton (NEW!) Polls are open until 7pm but you may weigh in now. I am out of the prediction business and shall practice self-restraint and not publicly
This week’s Courier Herald column: There’s a certain cadence of the calendar for those who work in the politics and policy fields in the state of Georgia. We’re all familiar with the 40 days’ rush of the Georgia General Assembly that begins in early January and, if at all possible, ends before Masters week. It’s
Sure, the headline sounds like a bad show on the Disney Channel. It’s also part of our reality. Two of our contributors, Ed Hula and Cody Hall, apparently are having birthdays today. Ed has been with us for quite a while. Seriously, he won’t go away. From a pseudonym at the old place when I
I don’t write a lot of personal stuff here anymore. There was a time when a “blog” was all about pouring feelings all over the internet. The internet has changed. Blogs have changed. Commenters now have Facebook. Our readership has remained stable over the years, but we’re no longer comment driven. Here, we now lean
Kayla Goggin of Courthouse News brings word that the investigations swirling around Atlanta City Hall are growing. On top of the still unresolved bribery scandal, we now have a former employee of the City – the business manager of the Atlanta Police Department – claiming she was fired after discovering the City was using federal
