Commuters living in Cobb and Cherokee Counties have been waiting a (long) while to use the new Northwest Corridor Express lanes along I-75, and I-575, which are expected to open near the end of the summer barring any setbacks. Sometime between Friday night and Saturday morning, a section of the retaining wall near Windy Hill Rd. collapsed onto the lanes that are still under construction. GDOT says they have engineers and designers on the case, and they do not anticipate any further delays to the opening of the lanes, even if they need to re-inspect the entire section of retaining walls along the roadway, but the threat of falling stone has Cobb drivers DRIFTING…
Dems find mess in CD-11
Georgia Democrats had a mess on their hands in the 11th Congressional District outside Atlanta after the party nominated Katy Stamper, later finding out she wasn’t a Democrat at all and had far-right political leanings. So they launched a write-in campaign promoting Tracey Verhoeven as the ‘real’ Dem in the race. It didn’t matter in the end as U.S. Rep. Barry Loudermilk cruised to re-election, but Stamper still got 32% of the vote to just 3% for Verhoeven. A failed write-in campaign and a messy election in CD-11 has Democrats there SINKING…
