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There has been a change of plans. I was going to talk about Georgia's olive industry this week.
Category Archives: Atlanta, GA
Campaign finance report reveals candidates’ coffers
The latest round of campaign finance reports have been filed, giving voters insight into how much money candidates are raising and spending on their bids to gain office.
Former Congressman from Georgia Pat Swindall has died
Former congressman Pat Swindall, a Republican trailblazer in Georgia before his political career was derailed by a perjury conviction, has died at age 67. Swindall died Wednesday. His former campaign manager and chief of staff, Robb Austin, confirmed his death Thursday to The Associated Press.
MARTA keeping Atlanta Streetcar fare at $1
The Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority board of directors June 22 voted to keep the existing $1 fare to ride the Atlanta Streetcar.
Around Town: Bill Shipp on the governor’s race, Democrats, Trump and the free press
Around Town paid a call on the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame member this week, finding him in good spirits, though concerned about such things as the future of the free press in this country and the leftward march of the Democratic Party.
There Are Two Georgias. One Just Made History.
Stacey Abrams, who won the Democratic primary for governor, was born and raised in Mississippi. But in many ways she is a product of Georgia's capital city, which she once represented in the state House of Representatives.
High hopes but tough road for black woman in governor’s race
She's a Yale-educated attorney and a romance novelist who served a decade in the Georgia Legislature. Now Stacey Abrams has gained a shot at becoming the first black woman elected governor in U.S. history.
Black women look to flex power in Georgia governor’s race
This week's primary election in Georgia presents black women voters with a rare opportunity: To give a Democrat who looks like them a chance at occupying the governor's mansion in a Republican-controlled state. A Democratic primary win Tuesday for Stacey Abrams or Stacey Evans - both lawyers and former state lawmakers - means Georgia could elect its first woman governor later this year.
Democrats Have Georgia Governorship on Their Minds, But Face Challenges
The party's two primary candidates are a snapshot of a larger debate within the party about how to win in red states ATLANTA-Georgia Democrats, long underdogs in this red state, hoped to present a unified front this year as they pushed to elect a governor, a post they haven't held since 2003. Instead, they have the Battle of the Two Staceys: Tuesday's primary showdown between Stacey Abrams, an African-American former state House minority leader who lives in Atlanta, and Stacey Evans, a white former state representative from the city's northern suburbs.
2 Democrats vie to become Georgia’s first woman governor Source: AP
One spent much of her childhood in trailers, raised by her mother, college made possible partly by a lottery scholarship and other grants. The other grew up in a working-class, African-American household in the Deep South, her path to law school also paved with financial aid.
2 Democrats vie to become Georgia’s first woman governor
One spent much of her childhood in trailers, raised by her mother, college made possible partly by a lottery scholarship and other grants. The other grew up in a working-class, African-American household in the Deep South, her path to law school also paved with financial aid.
Mechanical issue forces Rome flight to return to Atlanta
The Federal Aviation Administration tells news outlets the plane landed safely at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport on Tuesday around 10 p.m. The FAA says the Airbus A333 was more than an hour into its flight when it turned back near Virginia's coast.
The Latest: 3 ex-presidents attend Zell Miller’s funeral
A funeral for former Georgia Gov. and U.S. Sen. Zell Miller is beginning with three former presidents seated on the front pew. Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush all will eulogize Miller on Tuesday at a church in the Buckhead neighborhood of Atlanta.
Villa Rica development bill ready for governor
Villa Rica and Douglasville may be on the verge of a new era of development, thanks to two pieces of legislation that are now headed to the desk of Gov. Nathan Deal. Two separate bills authorizing referenda to create Tax Allocation Districts in both communities have now cleared both houses of the General Assembly.
Sandy Springs legislators applaud Holocaust Commission bill’s passage
Local lawmakers are celebrating this week's passage of Senate Bill 356 , which will amend an existing law so the Georgia Commission on the Holocaust can better serve the state.
‘Naked politics’ of punishing Delta could haunt Georgia
He said that while he supported portions of the bill, he thought the state should look to ... . Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle and Gov. Deal's chief of staff Chris Riley confer in the senate before the senate went into recess and the Rules Committee stripped the Delta tax cut from legislation.
Polish official: Germany owes Poland $850 billion for WWII
A Polish law that criminalizes accusing the ... . Flowers are placed at the memorial to Janusz Korczak who died in the gas chamber of the Treblinka Nazi German death camp in 1942 together with the children of the Jewish orphanage that he ran in the Warsaw Ghetto, at the J... .
Turkish airstrike kills pro-government gunmen in north Syria
Billy Graham past family members as it returns to the Billy Graham Library in Charlotte, N.C., Thursday, March 1, 2018. His funeral will be Friday.
Former Trump campaign chief faces arraignment in Virginia
Supporters of legalized sports gambling may have another hurdle to clear even if the Supreme Court rules in their favor this year. . Pallbearers carry the casket of the Rev.
Qualifying for May primary election set for next week
This Friday is the last day for prospective local political candidates to file a Declaration of Intent to run for political office this year. A DOI must be filed before a candidate can begin campaigning and raising campaign contributions, according to Laurie Fulton, election supervisor.