by Mark Zimmerman | Jun 28, 2019 | The Forum
In 2010 Sonya Renee Howell unexpectedly found herself and her young children homeless and in need of some help. She first turned to her church who got her off of the street and into a hotel for a short time while she started to piece together a plan to get back...
by Marc Hyden | Jun 25, 2019 | The Forum
Over 400,000 Americans have died from opioid abuse, be it heroin or synthetic prescriptions, since 1999. To put this death toll into perspective, roughly the same number of Americans perished in World War II. No state has been left untouched by the opioid...
by James Callaway | Jun 12, 2019 | The Forum
A recent Cobb County prosecution provides an important “teachable moment” in the battle against human trafficking in Georgia. Simply put, arresting, indicting, and convicting under Georgia’s Street Gang Act is necessary to win that fight. This is because...
by Prof. Ronald L. Carlson | Jun 11, 2019 | The Forum
The uproar over Georgia’s new abortion law accelerates daily, with protests as well as threats from Hollywood to boycott the state’s movie industry. Most of the critics harbor the belief that the law is unconstitutional, and they are not hesitant to publicly...
by Dink Nesmith | Jun 5, 2019 | The Forum
Work. Hard work on the farm. Lloyd Carter, 97, said that was all he knew growing up in rural Northeast Georgia. But when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, Carter knew that he had to put down his plow and fight for America. Before his 20th...
by Eric Tanenblatt | Jun 4, 2019 | The Forum
Las Vegas, Austin, Jacksonville, Providence, Paris, Singapore, Oslo, Seoul—a short, incomplete list of cities that are planning to integrate or have already integrated autonomous shuttles into their public transportation systems. Unfortunately Atlanta, even...
