It’s a time for choosing for Georgia voters. Four constitutional amendments are on the ballot awaiting the popular consent of Georgia’s governed. One of those constitutional amendments seeks to help alleviate struggling students in some of Georgia’s failing schools. There is a lot of opposition to it from school teachers, to Democrats and Republicans, to
Summerville Attorney Don Thompson was named by Governor Nathan Deal to succeed Judge Jon “Bo” Wood in the Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit that covers Dade, Walker, Catoosa, and Chattooga Counties. According to a Chattanooga Times-Free Press article, Thompson was chosen over local District Attorney Herbert “Buzz” Franklin: Deal appointed Thompson over Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit District
Our Republican nominee for President, Donald Trump, has climbed the political ladder by poo-pooing those below him. Republican leaders, sitting congressmen and senators, and even the Speaker of the House have been targeted at being awful people for calling out some of Donald Trump’s ridiculous statements. Most recently, Speaker Paul Ryan announced that he won’t
A fight has broken out between the judges in the Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit on who will become the new chief after the retirement of Chief Judge Jon ‘Bo’ Wood. As he was exiting, he issued an order naming Judge Kristina Cook Graham as the next chief judge of the circuit court even though he
Image from The Daily Beast The Anti-Defamation League has declared that Pepe the Frog, a comic book character that was innocently created by Matt Furie, a symbol of hate. Pepe was created for a comic book series called Boy’s Club back in 2005 according to the Time article reporting the declaration by the ADL. The
A lot of ire has been cast towards Governor Nathan Deal by some conservatives and teachers over the Opportunity School Districts. Opposition to the OSD amendment point towards the big, bad state government “overreaching” and circumventing local control of schools….even though the amendment allows for the state to step in after a school fails to
CNBC published an article on this Monday about a Forrester report on how artificial intelligence will eliminate up to 6% of the jobs we see today by 2021. Those jobs that look to be targeted are in the customer service, trucking, and taxi services. We’ve seen a large growth in the artificial intelligence realm with intelligent
North Carolina voters are looking to choose between two men for governor: reelecting their Republican Governor Pat McCrory or electing Democrat Attorney General Roy Cooper. Generally, incumbents have an easier time with being reelected. Unfortunately for Governor McCrory, his reelection bid is a bit murky largely due to HB 2 (also known as “The Bathroom
We’ve written for the past couple of weeks about Secretary of State Brian Kemp’s tepid attitude towards federal intervention of election administration all in the name of cyber-security. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has been making remarks about the “rigged system” that will steal this election from him for a while now, and I know
Ginny is our latest jet setting world traveler. I’m betting she’s out finding a yarn supplier to keep her “knitting in publick” alive and strong. In such, I’m here to give you this morning’s news. On this day in Georgia history, General William T. Sherman and his army captures Atlanta. It still makes a few
