Good morning! Most of Georgia’s children are back in school, so please be safe (and patient) when you’re driving your morning and afternoon commutes. Toni Morrison has died. Michael Williams (yes, the guy with the “Deportation Bus” that was best known for breaking down on the side of the highway) apologized for running for Governor,
This week’s Courier Herald column: It was last fall, and we had extra time to get to the Georgia game before kickoff. I decided to take the “long way” into Athens, in order to show my high-school aged niece more of the town that she was beginning to consider for college. I wanted to show
Happy Monday! Our hearts and prayers go out to Texas and Ohio. A solider from Georgia was among the heroes in El Paso. Former House Representative Allen Peake had a good day at the golf course on Friday. Senator Mitch McConnell has a fractured shoulder after a fall. A German maker of automotive glass is
I want this to be a mantra for me for most daily annoyances: “I refuse to be constantly outraged.” Now, let me caveat it with that there are some things you should be outraged by…like the tragedies that occurred this weekend. We should mourn the loss of life and the loss of innocence, and we
It was hard not to sympathize with Mary Norwood, once. She’s been making it easier though. Saturday morning, Norwood posted a purported list of Atlanta street gangs, which immediately went viral through her well-networked list of Facebook friends. The list, not to put too fine a point on it, is hilariously wrong. (EDIT: Mary changed
Eight time NWA Champion Harley Race passed away yesterday at the age of 76. Read the newest “At Issue” newsletter from the Georgia Senate An increasing call for the shut down of Sterigenics in Smyrna until independent testing can happen Fulton Tax Commissioner makes almost $500,000 a year. An upcoming FEC ruling on Former Rep.
First the actual news here: The Georgia House of Representatives has announced it will begin offering paid leave for employees who have children, including those who adopt or for foster care. The press release is as follows. ATLANTA – Speaker David Ralston (R-Blue Ridge) today announced a new paid family leave policy for employees of
This week has been full of administrative back-end stuff. Hopefully the site is working well for everyone. What websites do you read? What magazines/papers do you read? What sites should we use for Morning Read sources?
This past week, a delegation from the Georgia Young Republicans traveled to Omaha, Nebraska to elect new leadership for the Young Republicans National Federation. Georgia YR Chairman Colt Chambers was elected as Southern Regional Director of the YRNF by the convention, and newly elected YRNF Chairman Rick Loughery appointed Georgia YR National Committeeman James Hall
Good morning! If you live in metro Atlanta, get ready to either work from home or endure wrenching traffic as a result of rolling roadblocks, because the Vice President returns to Atlanta on Friday. Your job doesn’t even matter, though, because a 16-year-old just won $3 million in a Fortnite tournament. The many faces of
