Originally constructed as Centennial Olympic Stadium ahead of the 1996 games, the 85,000 seat venue was repurposed into Turner Field the following year, housing the Atlanta Braves until they moved to Cobb County in 2017. At that point it became Georgia State Stadium, the home of the GSU Panthers’ football team. Monday it was announced that the stadium will have a new name, pending expected USG approval – Center Parc Credit Union Stadium. The company will pay $21.5 million for the naming rights, which it will keep for 15 years. That’s a nice chunk of change for a school that, like all others, could use the cash in the midst of the pandemic. The new name might not exactly roll off the tongue, but fiscally it has GSU RISING…
Remembering John Lewis & his philosophy
It was 1990. I was working in Washington, D.C., for a Georgia congressman and had to fly back to the district for meetings. When I plopped down on my Delta flight, sitting next to me also heading to Atlanta was then 50-year-old Congressman John Lewis. Poor man....Trump Gave Ga. & Fla. What They Wanted; Their Governors Can’t Let Him Down Now
Sean Hannity of Fox News likes to kid me on air about how I’m really not retired from polling and political analysis. That’s because I happily agreed, along with my colleague John McLaughlin, to serve as pollster for Sean’s radio program this election season....When Will the Georgia Legislature Break Up with Tax Breaks?
The state of Georgia is required by law to have a balanced budget. Ahead of the new fiscal year on July 1, the Legislature faced difficult choices because of COVID-19-related decreases in state tax revenue. One of the most contentious aspects was whether the state...To heal America, look to national service
Massive demonstrations and unrest stretching from America’s biggest cities to its smallest towns, a pandemic that’s already claimed the lives of more than 130,000 and a sputtering economy that’s displaced upwards of 21 million workers: By any measure, America...Kemp is Right: Gangs Fueling Crime Surge
With Atlanta violent crime rates skyrocketing, Gov. Brian Kemp should take center stage and deliver the biggest, “I told you so,” in the history of public safety. The reason? As Kemp has consistently messaged, many times gangs are responsible for rising crime....
