The Atlanta Department of Parks and Recreation announced over the weekend that all outdoor public pools will be closed until further notice. The vague reason given is “operational assessment,” but the move comes just days after a 17-year old boy was shot and killed at Anderson Pool in West Atlanta. The department did not mention the shooting in any of the statements regarding these closings, but sources say many pools have gotten “out of control” in recent months. Pool closings in the heat of summer leave the citizens of Atlanta SINKING…
A Retired ‘Servant Leader’ Remains a Role Model
Few political observers can remember when Johnny Isakson was not a fixture in Georgia politics. As statewide politics enters a new era, it’s a good time to recognize a great man now in retirement. When he burst on to the scene in 1974 as a GOP candidate for a...Plan to fund colleges based on students’ performance taking hold
Long before COVID-19 tuition lawsuits, a partisan divide over the value of education had already emerged. While progressives often claim that higher education is underfunded, many conservatives are increasingly skeptical of its value to students and taxpayers....Kemp risks defeat by ignoring promises on illegal immigration action
That Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp has a reelection problem is not news. The fact that much of it concerns the state’s illegal immigration crisis and Kemp’s broken promises on that topic will likely never be in “the news.” As noted by the liberal AJC at the...Georgia Needs a New Path on Homelessness
On any given night over 10,000 Georgians are homeless. Georgia has made great strides in reducing that number over the past few years, but it is obvious that street, or “unsheltered,” homelessness has exploded in many of our cities and towns. Why, even before...Augusta Open Records Ruling A Win For 1st Amendment
Superior Court Judge Jesse Stone’s recent ruling in The Augusta Press et.al v. The City of Augusta affirmed that the public’s right to access public records trumps the government’s occasional desire to operate in secret. It is common for local...
