What is… CANCER SUCKS. (Prayers for Alex.) Spring is (trying to be) here, so that means baseball is not far away. How can we miss you if you won’t go away? Fish sandwiches for Lent! Really bad. A hate crime. Riiiight. Hipsters. What can you say? Cubans. They know these things. The time Curiosity called
The matter before the voters in Gwinnett County come March 19 is a simple “yes” or “no” on a contract to approve transit services provided by MARTA (and soon to be under the auspices of the Atlanta Region Transit Link Authority, or ATL). Early voting has begun, and the contract approval is the only County-wide
The legislature convenes today for Day 28, or “Crossover Day”. If you need to understand Crossover day, start here. In shorthand, the most straight line for a bill to become a law involves getting it passed by either the House or Senate by today. For a bill to get on the floor, it has to
Ok, if you’re reading this site, you probably are beyond the basics for crossover day, now “Day 28” of the 40 day legislative session. Still, some of you are new, and some of you have succumbed to the surface level reporting of what today is/does. Hint: No bill is really, truly dead until Sine Die…of
I’m feeling very uninspired to come up with anything witty to say. GAGOP County Conventions are happening this weekend, so are the Precinct Mass Meetings and County Convention double header for the counties under 80k in population. – Check your local party website/facebook for details. HB 324 passes the GA House 123 to 40. Poor
Rep. Doug Collins (R-Ga), the House Judiciary Committee’s ranking Republican, sounded off Monday at the Democratic members of the Judiciary Committee, tweeting: People not included in Judiciary Democrats’ investigation of @POTUS: Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, and Elvis. At this rate, best case scenario for their sprawling investigation is that we FINALLY discover who framed
It’s Tuesday in most of the world, but today is Mardi Gras in New Orleans. Here are 15 suggestions for how to celebrate in Metro Atlanta (but really all you need is to have the right attitude and the soundtrack from the link above). Meanwhile, it’s Women’s History Month. Learn more about famous Georgia women.
From Rep. Wes Cantrell (R, 22 – Woodstock): I believe in and fully support public education. I am a product of Georgia public schools, and I am a former Georgia public school teacher. My grandparents were Georgia public school educators. My mother served on the Georgia State Board of Education in the 1980s. My son
This week’s Courier Herald column Last week there was a bit of a kerfuffle involving House Bill 530, a bill aimed at parents who withdraw their children from school for the purpose of “avoiding compliance with laws relating to mandatory attendance, school discipline, parental involvement, or parental responsibilities.” That sounds simple enough. The bill’s primary
It’s a little gloomy in in our neck of the woods this morning. Southwest Georgia got hit hard yesterday by a tornado and our neighbors across the state line in Alabama lost at least 2 dozen people with more expected as first responders are able to clear debris this morning. Living in a border community,
