Heightened terrorist threats, an open invitation to "tour" WHINSEC, and Father Roy's absence, won't stop tens of thousands of activists to converge on Fort Benning this weekend.
The AJC reports:
The Army Times is reporting exclusively that an anonymous note threatening a massacre similar to the Nov. 5 attack at [...]Looks like someone in Georgia is doing something right. NCR, Rubbermaid and now Sony Ericcson are relocating to our state.
Sony Ericsson moving North American HQ to Atlanta, newspapers say | ajc.com
[...]Interesting, from AJC:"Clair has the knowledge, skill, and integrity to be very effective in uniting all parts of our city," Martin said in a press release issued by the Muller campaign. "I admire her ability to get people with various points of view to work together for the common" [...]
Jim Galloway gives us details about House Speaker Glenn Richardson:Last Sunday, Paulding County sheriff deputies and others were called to Richardson’s home in Hiram, set on scrubland that he’d purchased to give his boys a place to rev their ATVs.
The next day, the speaker missed a major GOP bash [...]
An Open letter to Kasim Reed:
While Lisa Borders endorses Kasim Reed at this very moment, we have an election that is teetering on a precipice, It can either be about our future, or about our past.
From Jim Galloways blog on the AJC...
The AJC wants to know if Georgia can afford the death penalty.
An accused killer from Pike County has sat in jail for nearly four years without a trial — not because of any problems with the evidence but because the state is seeking the death penalty and cannot pay [...]
We should scrap the corporate income tax anyway
In a sea of negative economic numbers, one stood out in the state revenue report Gov. Sonny Perdue issued Monday afternoon: In the month of October, Georgia actually had negative revenue from corporate income taxes.
That meant that over 31 days last month, [...]
Friday, November 6, 2009, The year of our Lord.
Write this day down.
It is a day we finally found the limits to which The Ox will stretch to pander to every last voter. And the person to be credited with forcing Ox’s hand: Nathan Deal
In an interview with the AJC [...]
The AJC is reporting on a murder that happened this Sunday at 1am on Oakcliff Road. Please be on the lookout for an individual who matches the police sketch below – and report any suspicious activity or information about the shooting to the police at 770-220-1591.
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Results for the election haven’t been posted on the AJC website yet, but the results for all three have been posted on Facebook. In District 1, Donna Pittman was re-elected by 61%. Brian Bates also won by a large margin for District 2.
District 3, unsurprisingly, is going into a [...]
If you care, click here for updates every few minutes from around Atlanta on today’s races, courtesy of the AJC.
[...]The AJC has a run down of the ATL Mayoral debate. Borders was swinging hard and Norwood had to keep saying she wasn’t a Republican.
[...]Thanks to Andre for sending me news of this.
From the AJC:
U.S. Reps. Dennis Kucinich, a liberal Democrat from Ohio, and Lynn Westmoreland, a conservative Republican from Coweta County, plan to hold a public hearing at the Georgia State Capitol Monday about how the high rate of bank failures [...]
[...] The AJC has a detailed write up of the water wars with Alabama and Florida.
It’s time to get on with it already and maybe Georgia needs to build up its own reservoirs for water collection and distribution. Oh, and Charlie Crist can suck eggs.
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Back in May, 2008, I noted that attorney Christopher T. Adams had been charged with 17 counts each of making false statements and theft by taking by Gwinnett County District Attorney Danny Porter, after the AJC reported that “[t]he county’s investigation found that Adams, appointed by [...]
From the AJC: “Many college graduates are passing up industrial centers and former hotspots in the Southwest, which have been hit hard by the recession, in favor of life in urban, high-tech meccas. Their moves are fueling a resurgence of brainiacs in parts of California, North Carolina [...]
Interesting snippets at the AJC on a snapshot of metro Atlanta released by the Census.
[...]This is a spooky article on swine flu, but I’m starting to think this is another “boy who cried wolf” story.
Yes, bad things can happen to people who get swine flu. Bad things may happen to me should I get it. But thus far the mortality rate of swine [...]
The AJC has a story on the safety of carnival rides.
Between the carnies and the rides, I generally avoid the places. They are breeding grounds for germs and other things. Blech.
[...]I still haven't decided who I'm voting for in the Atlanta Mayor's race, but AJC columnist Jay Bookman gets it right on why he's voting for Kasim Reed:
The record of legislative consensus-building that he [Kasim Reed] describes is very real. Given that some of the metro region's biggest challenges' [...]
Our own local Bernie Madoff? In one corner we have social media guru SpaceyG who told the AJC this about using social media in political campaigns.
“These are very, very powerful tools,” Daughters said. “These are databases they have compiled. Once these people are in your database, you have access to them 24/7.”
In the [...]
My colleague Aaron Gould Sheinin of the AJC, who's a good reporter with a very strong tolerance for politically oriented bovine feces, sat through a Thursday morning presentation by Gov. Sonny Perdue to a gathering of department heads and state employees.
