The Cartersville Medical Center this week announced that it collected 47 pounds of medications during its “Crush the Crisis” opioid take-back day, exceeding the total from the previous two years combined. Crush the Crisis day is a drive to have communities return unused and expired painkillers and other medications for safe disposal, making sure they can’t be abused going forward. A meaningful step forward in the opioid crisis fight has Cartersville RISING…
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…
