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: Dekalb County, GA
Election 2018: Boe District 2 Jackson hopes to stave off Fouch’s challenge
Editor's Note: This is another in a series of stories where the Sentinel asked candidates in the May 22 primary election questions about their platforms for office. Advance voting begins April 30. The race between three Democrats running for the District 2 Board of Education seat was narrowed down to two candidates Friday, as the Douglas County Board of Elections and Registrations voted to disqualify candidate Ebony Star Baker on the grounds she does not reside in the district.
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.
Liberals in a Tizzy
Many blacks and their white liberal allies demand the removal of statues of Confederate generals and the Confederate battle flag, and they are working up steam to destroy the images of Gens. Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee and President Jefferson Davis from Stone Mountain in Georgia.
Liberals Are In A Tizzy
Does the statue of Union Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman qualify for removal? He once explained his reluctance to enlist former slaves, writing, "I am honest in my belief that it is not fair to our men to count negroes as equals ... [but] is not a negro as good as a white man to stop a bullet?" Many blacks and their white liberal allies demand the removal of statues of Confederate generals and the Confederate battle flag, and they are working up steam to destroy the images of Gens.
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.