Animal control cut off in Atlanta

Bad blood between Fulton County and City of Atlanta officials led to animal control services being cut off in the city starting last Friday.  Cities located within Fulton pay the county to oversee animal control, and that rate recently jumped substantially.  While...

Former Atlanta CFO faces major prison time

The last domino to fall in the wide-ranging Atlanta City Hall corruption scandal that occurred under the tenure of former Mayor Kasim Reed fell Monday when Jim Beard, the city’s former chief financial officer, plead guilty to an array of federal charges and was...

Biden gets jump-start in Ga.

President Joe Biden is getting an early leg up on Donald Trump in Georgia, hiring nine additional staffers and preparing to open seven campaign offices across the state, set to open later this month.  Trump currently just has one senior staffer in the state and no...

End of an era in Atlanta

When CNN moved from Midtown Atlanta to downtown’s CNN Center in 1987 it was the premier cable news station in the world, having invented the 24-hour cable-news cycle that is prevalent to this day.  For over 30 years it called the building home, but in 2019...

Major prison bust

Georgia’s prison issues came to a head when more than 150 people were arrested for their parts in a “sophisticated, multi-state criminal enterprise” that worked to smuggle drugs and weapons inside.  Included in the arrests were eight Georgia Department of...

PSC rules in favor of Hancock Co. rail spur

An officer for the Georgia Public Service Commission ruled Monday that Sandersville Railroad Company can move forward with its plan to build a 4.5-mile rail spur in Hancock County, linking a quarry and string of other developments to an existing CSX rail line. ...

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