The Atlanta City Council this week unanimously voted to schedule a vote to add a half-penny sales tax in order to fund a litany of MARTA projects this November. The campaigns by both supporters and detractors will now begin in earnest, with both sides ramping up ahead of what promises to be a combative fall with the Presidential race unfolding. For Atlantans on either side of the issue, the right to choose their own path forward sees their ships RISING…
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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