Let’s get right into it… That was quick, Boyd drops out of the race for GA-7. Valdosta gets a new fire chief. Deloitte will handle the healthcare waiver process for GA. You’ve got a Netflix subscription, might as well get a Mercedes-Benz subscription while your are at it. They’ve updated their line-up. Thinking about selling/buying
On May 7th when Governor Kemp signed HB481 the abortion debate intensified despite the legislation not going into effect until January 1, 2020. Demonstrations and movie studios re-evaluating their Georgia investments continue to dominate the news cycle. This morning the House Judiciary Committee opened a hearing entitled “Threats to Reproductive Rights in America”. Ranking member
From Wednesday to Thursday our lives will be improved as four Democratic Presidential hopefuls deign to grace us with their presence. Vice President Joe Biden, Senator Corey Booker, Mayor Pete Buttegieg and former congressman Beto O’Rourke will be in Atlanta for a series of fundraisers and Thursday’s African American Leadership Summit and IWillVote Gala. Really
14th District Congressman Tom Graves opposed the Fiscal Year 2020 spending bill. As the Republican Leader of Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government, Graves specifically opposed the bill increasing spending over last year’s amount by 8 percent, or $1.8 billion. Congressman Graves voiced his concerns as follows: The total level of discretionary spending
On Monday the House finally approved the disaster aid package that had been blocked on three different occasions in the last few days. The disaster relief package provides $3 billion in critical disaster relief funding for farmers recovering from Hurricane Michael. This legislation passed the U.S. Senate last month and is headed to the President’s
Good morning! Studios including Disney, Netflix, WarnerMedia, Viacom, Sony, AMC, and NBCUniversal will likely rethink their relationship with Georgia should HB 481 go into effect. The Orly crash that indelibly changed Atlanta’s arts landscape happened 57 years ago, yesterday. A new Georgia law should mean fewer abandoned and derelict mobile homes. Meet Atlanta’s American Ninja
I haven’t slept through the night in seven weeks (but she’s 7.5 pounds of perfection and worth every bit of exhaustion), so y’all have a little mercy on the lateness of this post. Country goes to town, y’all! Except Melania looks amazing no matter what. I mean, if you aren’t going to be polite in
This week’s Courier Herald column: Whenever a public discussion begins about needed improvements for Georgia’s infrastructure, camps quickly form and divide into a battle of transit versus roads. The debate devolves into whether people want to ride together in transit, or whether we can build enough roads for everyone to be able to drive in
Made in Georgia. Yes! The Candler Building gets a new life. You know as long as the tax break money keeps flowing, nobody’s going anywhere. Just WOW. Wasn’t there an X-Files about this? Of course they cheated. Look closely. This is my shocked face. College kids are too busy protesting these days to bother. Pass
We received a presser earlier from Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger of his efforts to fight an inaccurate narrative on purging voters from the voter rolls by sending out address change notices to voters who have updated their address through the US Postal Service: In the coming days, county registrars will begin sending notices to
