According to a press release from Mercer University, President of Young Harris College and former Secretary of State Cathy Cox has been named Dean of the Mercer Law School. The full press release can be read here, and an excerpt is below the fold. Welcome to Macon, Dean Cox.
“I get more phone calls on this than I do every piece of legislation y’all ever introduce. and basically, I am sick of it…When I say that I get more complaints about you than I do about every bill that 236 people introduce, I’m not exaggerating that.” That’s a quote from the House Rules Chairman
Manuel’s Tavern is more than a bar. It’s where Ralph McGill unwound after a full day of giving the Civil Rights Movement a fair shake. Gene Patterson undoubtedly discussed his famed column, A Flower for the Graves, with his fellow stool dwellers amidst the cherry paneled corridors. The sainted adherents of Dr. Martin Luther King
Brian Maloof, owner of Manuel’s Tavern and son of the late Manuel Maloof, has issued an open invitation for patrons to join their family and staff in blessing Atlanta’s sacred watering hole before it reopens in the coming weeks. The invitation was too good to not share. From their Facebook feed: An open invitation, Monday
Sen. Perdue tells Faith and Freedom attendees to pray for Obama. “We should pray like Psalm 109:8 says: Let his days be few” — Betsy Woodruff (@woodruffbets) June 10, 2016 Ms. Woodruff is a reporter for the Daily Beast. Should we heed Senator Perdue’s advice and use Psalms 109 as guidance on how to pray
Good morning. In roughly 12 hours, many of you will be feverishly refreshing someone’s gubernatorial campaign the Secretary of State’s website. Some will rise. Some will fall.
Today, a titan of not just Georgia but Southern politics turned 69 years young. Chairman Calvin Smyre is the longest serving member of the General Assembly and serves as Dean of the House. If you reside in the state of Georgia, then I guarantee you are indebted to his nearly half a century of service
According to the Washington Post, Georgia native Richard McDaniel has just been named as Secretary Clinton’s Political Director for the upcoming D.C. Primary which will take place on June 14th. The hiring of McDaniel is a sign that Clinton looks to run the numbers up in the African American community, as she did in the
For anyone familiar with Dan Carter’s The Politics of Rage, this election cycle, while rife with randomness, the tenor of this election cycle has been far from unpredictable. Starting in the early 1960s and arguably reaching into the late 70s, George Wallace and his horde of out of control, states’ rights social warriors were a
Earlier this week, the Appropriations Committee passed its FY 2017 spending bill. Congressman Sanford Bishop sent out the following statement regarding the passage of the bill, and a round up of bill highlights. WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congressman Sanford D. Bishop, Jr. (GA-02), Member of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and
