by Patrick Hickey | Aug 29, 2019 | News, News 2
Tropical Storm Dorian officially became Hurricane Dorian on Wednesday afternoon as it struck the U.S. Virgin Islands, picking up wind speeds that are now topping out at 75mph. And it isn’t done yet. Forecasters say they expect Dorian to continue to pick...
by Patrick Hickey | Aug 27, 2019 | News, News 2
President Donald Trump on Friday signed into law H.R. 2938, the Honoring American Veterans in Extreme Need (HAVEN) Act, a bipartisan piece of legislation meant to protect disabled veterans from debt collectors which was introduced earlier this year by U.S. Rep....
by Patrick Hickey | Aug 22, 2019 | News, News 2
For much of the past 20 years, Senate District 48, which spans parts of Duluth and Johns Creek in the North Atlanta suburbs, was a Republican stronghold. David Shafer, now Chairman of the Georgia Republican Party, first won the seat in 2002, and ran unopposed...
by Patrick Hickey | Aug 21, 2019 | News, News 2
A year ago, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) announced the Georgia Historical Society (GHS) as the recipient of a $500,000 federal challenge grant to go toward its Next Century Initiative Capital Campaign. The campaign, launched in 2015, seeks...
by Patrick Hickey | Aug 20, 2019 | James Magazine
On Monday, as Cobb County residents prepared to gather for another town hall to meet with both local and federal officials about issues related to ethylene oxide from the Sterigenics facility, City of Atlanta lawmakers were preparing to get in front of the...