Fresh off its own battle over Religious Liberty, the City of Atlanta announced via Mayor Kasim Reed that it would be banning publicly-funded trips to North Carolina following its passage of a controversial transgender-bathroom law. Atlanta joins cities such as New York and Seattle in boycotting the state, and will likely rub salt in the wound as it courts some of the businesses put off by the law, which critics say is discriminatory. More business at home is a good thing, but cutting ties with one of our closest neighbors sees the city’s ship DRIFTING…
City has entire police force resign
The small town of Milner (population 1,000) in Lamar County, about 45 minutes southeast of Atlanta, saw its police chief and all five officers resign due to a a “lack of trust in the city council and mayor.” Chief Lamar Bunn accused Mayor Craig Timmons of placing a tracker on his personal truck as part of an odd saga that led to the resignations. Milner city officials say they’ll likely push to unincorporate, since the police were about the only service the county didn’t provide. The odd circumstances have Milner and its residents SINKING…
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