by Gary Reese | Mar 18, 2014 | News
It’s like the guy who lights out across the baseball diamond during a nationally broadcasted game. The results of the game barely get reported, but the misfit running across the field makes national headlines. So it was in the Georgia Senate today. Sort of. This...
by Gary Reese | Mar 18, 2014 | News
If the bill that would cripple the Common Core education standards and testing is going to get a last-minute ride on another bill before Sine Die on Thursday, it’s a well-kept secret. The bill has already died in committee, but there remained both advocates and...
by Gary Reese | Mar 18, 2014 | News
More privately than publicly, some Republican lawmakers at the Gold Dome are starting to get nervous about what they see as an out-of-hand habit of awarding sales and other tax breaks to mostly businesses. And the fact that the practice has become routine is part of...
by Gary Reese | Mar 17, 2014 | News
Here are just a few of the St. Patrick’s Day political goings-on Monday: A House committee seemingly voted to call it quits on both the proposed cities of Lakeside and Tucker. This action was based on the opinion that the legislative vehicle being used to pass the...
by Gary Reese | Mar 17, 2014 | Floating Boats
Can it really be? Passage of a measure to commit the state to erecting a statue of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr and without anyone — such as the Democratic Party or King family — demanding to dictate the details? Such a vote could, probably should, happen...
