Longtime Cobb Sheriff Neil Warren’s annual Corn Boilin’ event for charity last night brought out the lawman’s supporters but also a throng of Republican activists who will have the sheriff at the top of their Cobb County ticket in 2020. Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton won Cobb over Donald Trump in 2016, perhaps why GOP Gov. Brian Kemp made it a point to attend and support Warren. Also there was former Cobb DA and now-GBI Director Vic Reynolds. Some attendees think the Warren-Kemp-Reynolds tough stance on illegal alien and gang crime is a good reminder for Cobb Countians, especially for moderate/independent voters. In the Corn Boilin’ aftermath, GOP hopes for Cobb in 2020 could be RISING…
An Objective Analysis of Georgia’s Abortion Law
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...Lloyd Carter relives hail of Nazi bullets on June 6, 1944
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...Autonomous shuttles the answer to Atlanta’s transit woes
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...Smyrna Pumps Brakes on Scooter Ban
The band Montrose famously sang, “Get on your bad motor scooter and ride!” But depending on how things shake out, some forms of motor scooting may become illegal in Smyrna, Georgia. That’s because the Smyrna city council has been tinkering with the idea of...Charitable Giving: The Sky Didn’t Fall
A year ago, many non-profit leaders and industry pundits in Georgia and elsewhere predicted that charitable giving would decrease as much as $20 billion nationwide because of the new tax law. They were convinced that a reduction in tax rates and the doubling of...
