Coastal Georgia and our entire state lost a good man this weekend. Retired Rep. Burke Day died at his home on Tybee Island at the age of 62. Burke served on the Tybee Island City Council from 1991 to 1994 and then in the Georgia House of Representatives for 16 years until he retired in
Most people know that redistricting is a required process in the Georgia Legislature, generally undertaken every 10 years following the release of the U.S. Census. But what many do not know, is that sometimes the members of the legislature start trading homes and voters with each other in the middle of the decade. This year
From a press release: The Georgia Senate today will vote on Marsy’s Law, which would elevate crime victims’ rights to the state constitution. After weeks of negotiating on language, the Judiciary Committee passed the measure sponsored by Sen. John Kennedy (R-Macon) with bipartisan support and by a wide margin. Marsy’s Law for Georgia supports efforts
I have no candidate in the special election for Georgia’s 6th Congressional District, so the advice I’m offering is free, and that’s probably exactly what it’s worth. Even worthless, though, it’s still qualitatively better advice than whoever thought it would be smart to try to tag Jon Ossoff with some semi-embarrassing video footage of him
For forty years, Mercedes Benz USA (MBUSA) has named roads after itself. Typically, these streets surround MBUSA facilities. In Vance, Alabama, where the company manufactures GLE and GL-Class SUVs, the GLE Coupe, and the C-Class Sedan, roads leading to the facility include Daimler-Benz Boulevard, M-Class Boulevard (“M-Class” is the former model for Mercedes SUVs), and Mercedes Drive.
Happy Crossover Day! It’s Legislative Day 28, and that means our elected officials under the Gold Dome will work tirelessly to make sure their bills make it out of their respective chambers to get a fighting chance in the other chamber before Sine Die. Some will be successful, some not so much. It’s going to
From a press release: WASHINGTON: Today Congressman Doug Collins (R-Ga.) introduced H.R. 1316, the Prescription Drug Price Transparency Act, to protect taxpayers and the community pharmacists who serve them by requiring greater transparency from pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs). PBMs are the middlemen that employers and federal programs use to set formularies, or lists of drugs
A familiar story: On this date in 1877, Rutherford B. Hayes was declared the winner of the 1876 presidential election by Congress. Samuel J. Tilden, however, had won the popular vote on November 7, 1876. Peaches House cannabis bill passes House, supporters hopeful it trumps Watson’s. Georgia is No. 2 in producing professional athletes Still no
The world’s largest study of congestion found rather disturbing results for Atlanta’s congestion. INRIX, which calls itself “the world leader in transportation analytics and connected car services” published its findings in the Global Congestion Ranking. We are the fourth-most congested city in the U.S., only eighth in the world and perhaps most worrisome: we don’t even
In Monday’s column, I referenced this piece by WJBF’s Anne Maxwell: It’s well worth a watch on it’s own. In it, it talks about how Richmond County schools (the City of Augusta) have many failing schools (despite the claims by district spox Kaden Jacobs that failing schools don’t exist post November’s election), but neighboring Columbia
