New rankings from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs rate Atlanta’s VA hospital as one of the nation’s very worst. Years of calls for reform haven’t made much of a difference for the Atlanta VA Medical Center, which saw its overall quality rating drop from three stars to one, putting it amongst the bottom 10% of VA hospitals nationwide. Such a drastic drop in patient care and overall quality has the local VA’s ship SINKING…
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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