by JMO Staff | Aug 1, 2025 | Floating Boats
Cobb County Superior Court Clerk Connie Taylor has been indicted by a Cobb grand jury for her role in a scheme to destroy public documents. In 2022, a whistleblower complaint alleges Taylor told a county worker to destroy a public records request pertaining to her...
by JMO Staff | Jul 31, 2025 | Floating Boats
The U.S. Senate this week confirmed Susan Monarez as the new director of the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). It’s been a tumultuous year for the CDC, which has faced spending cuts from the Trump Administration and was forced to...
by JMO Staff | Jul 30, 2025 | Floating Boats
On the heels of a bruising campaign to pass major tort reform legislation earlier this year, Georgia has been added to the list of “Tort Reform Trailblazers” by the American Tort Reform Association. The law was a pet project of Gov. Brian Kemp, who muscled it over...
by JMO Staff | Jul 30, 2025 | Floating Boats
U.S. Rep. Mike Collins’ dramatic entrance into the 2026 U.S. Senate race opened up another congressional seat in his ruby red northeast Georgia district. As potential candidates scramble to put campaign teams together one name is already drawing major attention...
by JMO Staff | Jul 29, 2025 | Floating Boats
Columbus-based Synovus Financial Corp. is primed to take part in the largest bank merger of the year when it combines with Nashville-based Pinnacle Financial Partners in an $8.6 billion transaction. The combined holding company, to go by Pinnacle Financial Partners,...
by JMO Staff | Jul 28, 2025 | Floating Boats
Last week a Wall Street Journal headline raised eyebrows around Georgia when it claimed that Atlanta’s population growth streak had finally come to an end, with more residents moving out over the last year than moved in. It’s just one data point among...
