This week’s Courier Herald column: When part of a governing majority, members of the political party in charge get both credit and blame for the state of current events. Georgia’s Republicans have run for re-election several times sharing the success stories of economic transformation in the aftermath of the great recession. Many that have taken
A massive study of Democratic primary voters from Monmouth University finds decent support for Stacey Abrams as Veep nominee. The study was a follow-up to more than 14,000 interviews of likely Democratic primary voters, with 2,240 of those participants taking a second round of online interviews giving a primary post-mortem. But, this is the real
Welcome to another Legislative Monday in June. Because it’s 2020 and why not? Army vet empties gun at woman’s SUV in Columbus Mail In Ballots contribute to higher Georgia Democratic Party voter turnout Because we need some super cute… Long odds as Georgia lawmakers try again on sports gambling Education not left behind in Georgia
On this Juneteenth (Google it) the people in Decatur, Georgia have additional cause for celebration. The confederate statue found in the center of the downtown Decatur square has finally come down.
Good morning. I’m in for Ginny today, so here are your mid-morning reads for Juneteenth 2020. Here: A Confederate monument is removed from the square in downtown Decatur A Fulton Commissioner files petition challenging challenger’s victory Standardized testing might get punted for the 2020-2021 school year COVID-19 is still a thing Bill to privatize historic
Axios reports that the next biography from Pulitzer Prize winner Jon Meacham will be about Congressman John Lewis. Set to be released in the fall, “His Truth is Marching On” will have an afterword from Cong. Lewis. From the post: Meacham calls it “an appreciative account of the major moments of Lewis’ life in the movement,
Email in-box reminds us that we’re still in session, but still also in a pandemic: While we’re all trying to work and re-establish normalcy as much as possible, it’s also time to remember that we each have some personal responsibility to keep Covid-19 from spreading.
These days it seems there are no stupid questions, just stupid times. And what a time to be alive! Attention is finally turning to this cluster of an election season we’re having, as a dwindling political press corps can’t seem to handle 20 person primaries – especially when most candidates these days have no track
In 2018 the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee supported Carolyn Bourdeaux with the organization’s Red to Blue program. On Thursday, the DCCC announced it would do so again. I suppose coming up less than 500 votes short the first time around makes for a compelling second-time campaign.
Congressman Doug Collins made a not-all-together incorrect statement that an Independent District Attorney should be appointed in the killing of Rayshard Brooks. After being forced into a runoff, Atlanta DA Paul Howard chose to make political hay from Brooks’ death. The connection Collins draws with Brooks and Ahmaud Arbery seems a bit specious, however. In
