In getting back to our tradition of having at least one Sunday morning feature of our political friends doing non-political things, today we need to spotlight two members of the #GaPol community. John Vestal, a/k/a “BuzzFan”, has long been a fellow commenter and one of the folks I’ve known the longest that I met because
Qualifying will be over when we hit the air on 640 AM at noon, and the legislature will have just five days left after today. We’re closing one chapter as we begin another. What does that mean for radio today? Well, the religious freedom debate has achieved Godwin’s law, we may have guns and/or stun
Paul Broun announced yesterday that he misses the $174,000 he used to make in a taxpayer funded salary. After shopping various districts he’s decided to run against Congressman Doug Collins of Gainesville in Georgia’s 9th district. Broun, a Congressman from Athens in the 10th Congressional district, now claims Clarkesville as home. But no matter. He’s
This week’s Courier Herald column: At a meeting in Athens held in conjunction with the Legislature’s biennial 2014 gathering, Lieutenant Governor Casey Cagle somewhat surprised those in attendance by stating “We cannot avoid the issue of transit.” During the following 2015 legislative session, a bill to provide roughly a billion new dollars per year for
Bill Jackson announced this week that he’ll be retiring from the Senate. This will end a decade of his service to the upper chamber after having served 16 years in the State House. Thus far I’m not aware of any announced candidates to replace him. One of our regular commenters is the Mayor of Bowman
I am ready for this week to end. I shall get home hopefully early afternoon, assume a comforting fetal position under a blanket, and watch the uplifting tale of how a scrappy Congressman from upstate South Carolina brought dignity and American Values back to the White House. But before that, I get to revise and
My good friend Rich Sullivan is sick today, so that means you get to hear me bear my great dissatisfaction with all things GOP Presidential Primary on the radio today, noon to 2PM. I’ll be filling in. It’s late notice so it will be unscripted save the hour or so that I have to make
Tonight 11Alive will be airing a Livestream beginning at 7:00pm. If this thing is working that’s what you should be seeing above. This will be mostly local coverage of the SEC Primary results with the 11Alive News Team, as well as discussion and analysis by Democratic Communications Consultant (and a friend of mine) Liz Flowers
Tonight, WXIA 11Alive will be hosting election results with a local angle during a livestream that starts at 7PM. I will join anchor Melissa Long and my true friend and member of the political opposition Liz Flowers to break it down and provide analysis. You can provide your own comments as events unfold in the
Raising an unstated but obvious threat of a veto over certain versions of “Religious Liberty” bills on the table in the legislature, Governor Nathan Deal today said that Georgia will remain a state that protects the freedom of religion but that does not require allowing discrimination. As tweeted by Greg Bluestein of the AJC: “I
