The Atlanta City Council is considering a measure that would ban the selling of puppies and kittens at city pet stores in an effort to combat puppy mills. In addition to helping put a stop to puppy mills – which are squalid, unsafe breeding centers that produce unhealthy and often dangerous animals – such legislation would also encourage adoption from rescue centers. By joining the handful of other Georgia cities that ban retail pet sales, Atlanta’s ship would be 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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