From the Office of Governor Brian Kemp: Today Governor Brian P. Kemp announced that his Chief of Staff and longtime advisor, Tim Fleming, is departing his administration to pursue new opportunities in the private sector. “Tim has served my administrations for more than a decade,” said Governor Kemp. “I am grateful for his service and

Happy Constitution Day! Today is the day we commemorates the formation and signing of the U.S. Constitution by 39 men on September 17, 1787. If you know how many Amendments are in the Bill of Rights, you’re ahead of ~74% of the population. Just go ahead and send the meteor…And now, for the news. Peaches 

Good morning on what shouldn’t be one day, but rather everyday. One cannot have enough guacamole. Of course I’m going to give you a bit of history for guacamole in the United States. Here are some tips from Rick Bayless for making good guacamole, and here is one of my top five favorite articles from

This week’s Courier Herald column: Georgians who find themselves unemployed due to the pandemic are no longer receiving additional unemployment insurance payments due to gridlock in Washington.  That’s the nice, sanitized way that the current situation is currently being reported.  It sounds much nicer and less sinister than reporting that those hardest hit by the

Good morning! If you are a quarterly tax filer, don’t forget that today’s the deadline to pay your estimate taxes for the June 1 – August 31 payment period – and there are no more pandemic extensions. Today’s nomination for the story most likely to be a slow burn with broad repercussions is this Georgia

Editor’s Note: The following editorial was written by State Rep. Wes Cantrell (R-Woodstock). “Georgia schools have become a breeding ground for this pandemic.”       This quote was attributed to my legislative colleagues by CBS Channel 46 News. When I contacted these colleagues about this outrageous quote, one of them invited me to join him in a

Happy Mid-Monday Morning! The Robertsons are in slo-mo action this fall-ish morning with weekend company lingering. No complaints over this extra cup of coffee. But, apologies for the lateness of the read. Amazon says it’s hiring 4,000 employees in Georgia, 100,000 across U.S. Chemical fire in Rockdale County shuts down parts of interstate Georgia deputies

The Georgia Secretary of State’s Office issued a press release early Monday morning calling on the American Civil Liberties Union of Georgia to provide the data to substantiate a lofty claim about voter registration cancellation. The demand follows a 2019 claim by the ACLU and a more recent published report in which the organization said

Northwest Georgia is heavily Republican, so it’s easy to forget there is a Democrat that’s running against Marjorie Greene to replace Congressman Tom Graves in GA-14. Kevin Van Ausdal was the Democratic nominee for the 14th until today when he released a message indicating that he was withdrawing from the race due to “family and

From Congressman Graves’ office: Ranger, G.A. – This evening Rep. Tom Graves (R-GA-14) released the following statement: “With the House planning to wrap up the People’s business and the final report from the Modernization Committee set to be filed in the next few weeks, I intend to step down from Congress and begin the next chapter of