The movement to break away the Buckhead community from Georgia’s capital city was SUNK on Friday when House of Representatives Speaker David Ralston stopped the legislation, citing difficult Senate passage and the desire to give Atlanta’s new mayor this year to try curbing crime. However, with violent crime increasing, police morale still low and with an understaffed police force, 2023 is just 10 months away. If not much change occurs this year (and with a new, sympathetic lieutenant governor running the Senate next year), Buckhead cityhood sentiment could again RISE…
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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