by Patrick Hickey | Dec 7, 2016 | News, News 2
Georgia House Speaker David Ralston joined GPB’s “Political Rewind” on Friday and made it clear that he’d like to avoid another ‘religious freedom’ debate under the Gold Dome in 2017, as unlikely as that seems. No doubt feeling the heat from...
by Patrick Hickey | Nov 30, 2016 | News, News 2
Georgia’s 2017 legislative session doesn’t officially kick off until January 9th, but some legislators have already been hard at work pre-filing bills. Often pre-filing is used to ‘feel out’ public opinion on a topic, the bill itself is...
by Patrick Hickey | Nov 22, 2016 | News, News 2
The Policing Strategies Working Group, a bipartisan team made up of members of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee, met with community leaders Friday in Atlanta to discuss their goals and to receive feedback on the steps they’ve made to improve the relationship...
by Patrick Hickey | Nov 16, 2016 | News, News 2
It doesn’t take smoke clogged air from a half-dozen wildfires to know that Georgia is in the midst of a drought, but it sure makes it more obvious. As metro Atlanta continues to be beset by smoke on a daily basis as the wind changes, Governor Nathan Deal...
by Patrick Hickey | Nov 15, 2016 | News, News 2
State Senator Vincent Fort jumped into an already-crowded field in the race for Atlanta Mayor on Saturday, and he didn’t waste any time in stealing headlines away from his opponents, vowing Monday to decriminalize marijuana inside the city, (among other...
