As Charlie alluded to in his latest column, Amazon’s search for a “full equal” HQ highlights the most vexing question for Cobb/Gwinnett Counties and Georgia generally. Will you join the mass transit program or get left behind? It can’t get any more explicit than Amazon requiring “direct” mass transit access “at site” for their new
UPDATE: I suppose I haven’t been following this race closely. Linda Pritchett, Mable Thomas and Elijah Tutt are running as well. Nikema Williams made it official today, announcing her campaign for Senate District 39. If you’ve spent time at the Capitol or even been marginally involved with Democratic Party politics for the last 12 years
Let’s get the important details out of the way: the BBQ will come from Dunbar’s. And on June 3 you can sample said que as Stacey Abrams holds the first public event in her nascent gubernatorial bid. Starting in Albany is full of significance. Clinton secured 68.5% of the vote against Trump. Dougherty County is
This week’s Courier Herald Column. This is the third installment of this series. You can track back to the beginning starting with the previous installment here. In this, the third in a series explaining the regions that make up Georgia’s political factions, we’re going begin to take a look at each region one by one,
This week’s Courier Herald column: This is the second in a series. The introductory column can be found here. During the 1980’s, the Director of Georgia’s Cooperative Extension Service Tal DuVall published a study on “Two Georgias”, highlighting the growing disparity between a prosperous and growing metro Atlanta, and a mostly rural “other Georgia”. It
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
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
According to the Athens Banner-Herald, Georgia’s air quality has improved significantly over the past decade, largely due to shuttered coal-fired plants and lower emissions in newer automobiles and construction equipment. Emissions of ozone-forming sulfur dioxide (SO2) declined from more than 700,000 tons a year in 2005 to less than 100,000 tons in 2015, according to
This week’s Courier Herald column: There was a time in recent Georgia history when it was impolite to talk about the concept of “Two Georgias”. There was the thriving and growing Atlanta – the economic engine of the state. Then, there was everything else. The “Other Georgia”. The people that could see the writing on
Mary Norwood, attempting another try to becoming Atlanta Mayor after falling just short 8 years ago, leads a crowded field according to a WSB TV poll by Landmark Communications/Rosetta Stone. (i.e, Mark Rountree & John Garst) Norwood leads the field of 8 with 28.6 percent, just edging out “undecided” at 28%. No other named candidate
