In the latest attempt to allow certain illegal immigrants to attend one of Georgia’s college and universities and pay in-state tuition, two Georgia Perimeter College students have filed a federal lawsuit against the Board of Regents and many of the University System College presidents. The suit claims that the students have had their rights violated
Georgia voters faced a decision in last week’s primary beyond which presidential candidate they wanted to support. In Georgia, we have open primaries, which means that we get to choose whether we vote in the Republican or the Democratic primary. True-believing die-hards from either party will rarely waver on which ballot they choose, but as
This week’s Courier Herald column: At a meeting in Athens held in conjunction with the Legislature’s biennial 2014 gathering, Lieutenant Governor Casey Cagle somewhat surprised those in attendance by stating “We cannot avoid the issue of transit.” During the following 2015 legislative session, a bill to provide roughly a billion new dollars per year for
#RINORadio GeorgiaPol Radio took to the air again on Friday where Charlie Harper, Jon Richards, and Stefan Turkheimer discussed the hangover from Super Tuesday. Is Donald Trump unstoppable? Are we in the midst of a political realignment within both parties? Luckily, we have the downloadable podcast version just in case you missed the live version
Next week, an Athens prosecutor will decide whether or not to cite a brewery for serving beer. Athens Clarke County Unified Government Prosecutor Bill Berryman claims that while an undercover officer spent two hours in Creature Comforts and was given beer, she was not offered a tour. (Memo to police officers: you might not be taking full
In addition to Sen. Tommie Williams’ retirement announcement, Sen. Bill Jackson (R-Appling, D-24) also announced he would not be seeking re-election to the State Senate and will be retiring at the end of his current term. He was elected to the Georgia Senate in 2007 after serving 16 years in the State House. He currently
It has been announced today that Sen. Tommie Williams (R-Lyons, D-19) will be retiring from his GA Senate seat after 18 years of service and not seek re-election. Senate President Pro Tempore David Shafer (R – Duluth): “Sen. Tommie Williams is one of the pioneering leaders of the Georgia Republican Party. His election to the
Senator David Perdue is concerned enough about the nation’s growing debt crisis that he refused to endorse a Republican presidential candidate because he hoped to be able to convince each of them to take on the issue. He pointed out that after some ten presidential debates, the national debt, which he feels should be a
The folks at Kinder Morgan have seemed for years to be working from the assumption that the Palmetto Pipeline was an inevitability. The nation needs additional energy infrastructure and there is ample precedent for the use of eminent domain to run pipes on privately held land, right? But the opposition to the Palmetto Pipeline has
Hey! It’s Super Tuesday! Did you vote? Make sure you tell all your Facebook friends to be sure to vote – they probably have no idea it’s Election Day. In honor of Super Tuesday, match the Hamilton lyric with the presidential candidate (answers are at the bottom, like in Highlights Magazine). A: “You disgust me.”
