The City of Atlanta has four new noble, civic goals unveiled as part of the Clinton Global Initiative Americas meeting. Said meeting, coincidentally, is underway in Atlanta. Even more coincidentally, Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed is a deeply-committed supporter of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. Funny how the world works sometimes… Anyway, the goals are focused on
Gwinnett Place Mall in Duluth has fallen on hard times. The area has noticeably declined since its glorious opening in 1984 as the county’s first ever supermall. Competition from the nearby Discover Mills Mall and the Mall of Georgia, dragging consumer spending (a legacy of the 2008 recession), and a burgeoning global preference for online
A meme disguised as a news story made its way through Atlanta and national social media yesterday saying that the Braves were going to have to raise taxes to buy parkland because they used park bond money to give to Liberty Media and the Atlanta Braves. Lee has released the following statement: Contrary to several
By now you’ve probably read (or read of) at least a dozen paeans to Muhammad Ali, who died on Friday. What’s become essentially a footnote in his life is how important Atlanta was to his career. And no, I’m not talking about how he lit the Olympic Cauldron–iconic though that moment may have been. In
Atlanta’s blighted westside was named as one of nine new “Promise Zones” by the White House on Monday. While the designation comes with no money, being a Promise Zone makes it easier for neighborhoods to access federal funds with “10 years of significant Federal support for local leaders in high-poverty communities to create jobs; increase
I’ve been trying not to abuse the privilege of GeorgiaPol while running for a county commission seat in DeKalb. But I’m making an exception today because politics have taken a Hunter S. Thompson turn for the weird of late, and his ghost will burn my house down in my sleep if I do nothing. DeKalb
Jason E. Downey, Vice-President of the Bibb County Board of Education, issued a press release today stating that he will be ending his re-election campaign by withdrawing from the July 26, 2016 runoff. Challenger Bob Easter forced the runoff by garnering 48.62% of the vote in the May 24 election to Downey’s 39.51%. Valerie Wynn
Golf. You know. That thing that old men do when they get bored after retiring. That unbelievably frustrating game where your only opponent is your own mental fragility. That sport where you can top 17 tee shots in a row, but you keep coming back because of a beautiful drive down the 18th fairway. Yeah
Nothing to see here, move along. Yesterday’s primaries in Chatham County had some interesting elements, but the results were largely predictable, with most incumbents winning handily. It seems that a fair number of Republicans asked for a Democratic ballot, but that trend doesn’t seem to have had much if any effect on the outcomes. Carl
Being a district chairman, that automatically makes me a member of the #RINOEstablishment, so I might as well claim the title and say that I was generally happy with the results of our Georgia Republican primary. We avoided conspiracy and cupcakes in the US Senate race, and I’m glad to see three of Georgia’s most
