For the second straight year, the University System of Georgia’s Board of Regents has announced it will freeze tuition and fees for the next school year. All 26 of the state’s public colleges and universities will see tuition stay at the current level, with the board pointing to financial hardships resulting from the COVID pandemic as the reason for the freeze. Working to keep education affordable has been a goal for the USG, and being mindful of the economic stress facing many Georgians has students’ and parents’ ships RISING…
What Defines Professional Sports Now? Race
While age may have slowed Jesse Jackson’s political activities (he is nearly 80 years old), the strategy he launched in the early 1980s of using race as a lever to pressure corporations into donating money to causes he championed lives on, with renewed vigor in...Vicious ‘cancelling’– This could happen to you
We live in a world where people can destroy someone else’s life from a smart phone in a matter of minutes. Many people may not care when someone like me is the target. But they should, because what happened to me could— and probably will— happen to you or...Georgia Should Not Be Entangled with Bad-Faith Actors on Intellectual Property
In the quest to attract investment from foreign and domestic corporations, Georgia has become a home for Electric Vehicle-related manufacturing. In 2019, SK Innovation (SKI), an electric vehicle (EV) battery manufacturer and subsidiary of a South Korean...A Bipartisan Call to Review Georgia’s Election Process
Our decisions, the laws we pass, carry the weight of authority, but only when it’s with the consent of the governed. And that consent is only given when the people have faith that an election was fair and fairly won. Some of you may think it is sour grapes or...The Mayor that Atlanta Needs
Tom Menino was Mayor of Boston for 21 years, from 1993 to 2014. Unlike most of his predecessors and successors, he didn’t want to use the office as a steppingstone to some higher office. All he wanted was to be mayor of Boston. He wasn’t in it for...
