Columbia High graduate is now a colonel in the U.S. Army
Lt. Col. Kathy Brown's husband, Col. Eric L. Brown , thinks she is the first black female West Pointer from Georgia to make the rank of full colonel.
Category Archives: Decatur, GA
DeKalb Superior Court seats are races to watch in 2018
The battle for two seats on the DeKalb Superior Court are shaping up as the hot races for the May 22 primary and nonpartisan elections. Through March 8, five candidates - Tunde Akinyele, Gina Bernard, Roderick Bridges, LaTisha Dear Jackson and Nicholas Smith - had qualified for the race to succeed Judge Daniel Coursey, who is retiring on Dec. 31. Johnson, who had been silent on Hopewell's challenge, said this week that she was "excited to announce" her campaign for re-election.
Trump: I am ‘a very stable genius’
Michael Wolff's book "Fire and Fury" about the early period of the Trump White House for sale at the Little Shop of Stories bookstore in Decatur, Ga., on Jan. 5, 2018. The book's release came four days early amid threats of a lawsuit from President Trump and his legal team.
Tea party leader gives opinions on gun, religious liberty bills
On Monday, the United Tea Party of Georgia, which holds meetings in Cumming, Buford and Lawrenceville, discussed several items that could come up in the Georgia General Assembly's 2017 legislative session. "Many years ago, I cared about federal issues but never cared about state issues," said the group's leader, David Hancock.
Why people aren’t voting today
Out on the streets of Decatur on the morning of an election day, very few people were wearing an "I'm a Georgia voter" sticker. Sonia Boze knew it was election season, but she said she did not get calls or mailers from candidates like she usually does.