Good morning – If 2020 wasn’t 2020 enough, a Saharan dust storm is breezing across the Atlantic. But if 2020 was a fishing show… Peaches Surprise billing legislation clears all the hurdles of legislature. Raffensperger wants power to intervene. Renaming our state colleges and universities? Considering a new hemp bill when the last one should
Politico is reporting that Marjorie Taylor Greene is being condemned by Republican leaders in the US House for numerous remarks that she has made about Muslims, African Americans, among others. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, House Minority Whip Steve Scalise, and NRCC Chaiman Tom Emmer all weighed in condemning her, either directly or through a
Good morning! It’s National Eat Your Vegetables Day here in the United States, which comes at such an abundant time of year. This year, I’ve grown my largest garden ever, and right now, cucumbers, squash, and beans are abundant. Guess y’all know what we’re having to celebrate! It’s also Wednesday, which means I need to
This week’s Courier Herald column: In the fall of 1983 I began the only formal training I’ve had in the field of journalism. It was then that I became a staff member of The Tigers’ Roar, the student newspaper of Fayette County High School. I was a freshman. As was and is typical of fourteen
In Sunday’s New York Times there was a bit of clarity in the Veepstakes: it remains muddy as ever. There does seem to be a greater push for Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms. According to the Times, how Mayor bottoms handled the Covid-19 outbreak and civil unrest in Atlanta has elevated her profile. Bottoms and
A press release from Black Futurists Group: Following the death of another Black man, Rayshard Brooks, at the hands of Atlanta police due to inaction from political leadership at city hall, protestors, community organizers, and members of the Mayor’s Taskforce to Reimagine the Atlanta City Detention Center (ACDC) will converge on the steps of City
The following have been set by the House Rules Committee to be debated by the House today, Monday, June 15, 2020: SB 43 – Revenue Bonds; definition of the term “undertaking” as it relates to electric systems; revise (EU&T-Carpenter-4th) Payne-54th SB 134 – Georgia Commission on the Holocaust; commission for administrative purposes; reassign (GAff-Silcox-52nd) Kirkpatrick-32nd
The Senate will reconvene today at 10 a.m. to consider the following bills on the floor: · HB 781 – Financial institutions; clarify and remove superfluous language; provisions · HR 935 – Georgia Commission on Freight and Logistics; create · HR 1023 – A RESOLUTION proposing an amendment to the Constitution so as to provide
On this last Monday of Spring, the Georgia General Assembly will reconvene to finish the work that was interrupted in March by COVID-19. It will be the oddest end to the oddest session, which is pretty much the only thing that makes sense for the year that just needs to go back to wherever it
More openings! Peabody Awards announced. Schooled. Victor Hill in hot water. Again. Veep sweepstakes continue. Domino’s hack. Overkill. IBM to walk away from facial recognition. Wayward moon.
