Just one day after Governor Nathan Deal declared that Georgia would remain open for business and void of potential discrimination, members of the Atlanta City Council are requesting that the NBA relocate the 2017 All-Star game, and all the commerce that comes with it, from a state that decided to, well, take a different route. We’ll
I grew up near the convergence of Highways 41 and 42 in Monroe County. I sang in the church choir at First Baptist Church of Forsyth, fished and hunted along the banks of the Ocmulgee River, I cheered for the Mary Persons Bulldogs from the stands of Dan Pitts Stadium, and I ate Fresh Air
A gaggle of Middle Georgians deserve a large pat on the back, because years of work have gone into this. Yesterday, in a rare show of bipartisanship from Congress, Representatives Austin Scott and Sanford Bishop announced that the move to change the Ocmulgee National Monument to a National Historic Park passed unanimously out of committee. This
We received word from Representative Sanford Bishop’s (D – Albany) office yesterday that Mitchell County’s own, Krysta Harden, will be stepping down as Deputy Secretary of the United States Department of Agriculture. Representative Bishop sent along some mighty kind words for the Camilla native that we thought were worth a read: From Representative Bishop: “Growing
First, thank y’all for having me. I’ve followed the contributors here for some time and am really looking forward to joining the conversation. A little about me, I work in the legislature for Rep. Stacey Evans. This is my 5th session. I took a short break to help run the research department Michelle Nunn’s
