When President Barack Obama introduced the first budget of his presidency last February, he piously observed: "There are times where you can afford to redecorate your house, and then there are time...
A Hurried Exit The Obama administration has declared the war in Iraq is all but over. “It is time to turn the page,” the president declared in his nationwide address, renewing his pledge to have all...
Lynn Turner Monday brought shocking news of the death in prison of arguably the most notorious woman in Cobb County history, and one of the most notorious women in Georgia history, Lynn Turner. Turner, 42, wa...
Georgia Voices: The last word on Davis Tuesday’s decision by U.S. District Judge William T. Moore Jr. on the Troy Anthony Davis case should be the last word on this sore, emotional subject. It should be, but it won’t. Attor...
Georgia Voices: A Question of Faith Much has been made recently over questions of the president’s religious views. In reporting a poll that says 18 percent of Americans believe Barack Obama is a Muslim, national media have con...
August Buzz Maybe it’s just a lack of anything better to do in the August doldrums, but the talk of replacing Vice President Joe Biden with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is beginning to reach a cer...
The Deadline When President Barack Obama finished a review of his strategy in Afghanistan last fall he set what was widely construed to be a deadline for the U.S. to begin withdrawing. At the time, setting a J...
Mowed Down Much has been made in recent years of the need for Marietta to revitalize itself – i.e., the need for it to reinvigorate rundown business areas and neighborhoods. The need for stricter and m...
Barbecued? GOOD NEWS for parents, teachers and students came out of Monday’s meeting of the Cobb school board. That is, the board conceded – reluctantly, and with time running out – tha...
Traffic Cobb County traffic and “snarls” are pretty much synonymous. So it was welcome news when county Department of Transportation officials held the ribbon-cutting on Thursday for a $5.5 mi...
Around Town: Dunn Deal Done For THE CHANCES of Cobb Elections chief Sharon Dunn inking a lucrative post-retirement consulting contract for the rest of the year with the county look deader than King Tut. The Dunn deal came un...
Around Town: Dunn Deal UnDone THE BACKLASH CONTINUES from this week’s muddled attempt to rehire retiring Cobb Elections Director Sharon Dunn, which has turned into a fiasco for those involved. The county commission...
Around Town: This and That with a computer handy A NEW DORM at Bethune-Cookman University in Daytona Beach, Fla., named after Lockheed Martin executive VP and plant manager Lee Rhyant of Marietta is expected to open by this weekend. Rhyant i...
Around Town: New SPLOST? THE CLOCK IS TICKING on the Cobb Board of Commissioners and new Chair Tim Lee, who must decide in just more than a month whether to call a roads SPLOST special referendum for next March. S...
Around Town: Team-Building? BELIEVE IT OR NOT , with time ticking down for the current, controversial edition of the Cobb school board, Chairwoman Lynnda Crowder-Eagle has scheduled a two-hour “Team Building” ...
Around Town: This week, eyes of nation are Focused on Georgia LOVE HER OR HATE HER , Sarah Palin got at least one thing right Monday at her endorsement rally for GOP gubernatorial runoff candidate Karen Handel. Declared Palin: “Why do so many ...
Around Town: Down to the Wire REPUBLICAN - RICH COBB COUNTY has a magnetic attraction to statewide GOP candidates – especially this weekend, with the primary runoff elections just three days away. Gubernatorial h...
Around Town: Dodging Obama brought a PR Bonanza for Barnes ONE OF LAST WEEK’S hottest political topics was whether Democratic gubernatorial candidate Roy Barnes would be seen with President Obama when the president visited Atlanta on Monday. We...
Around Town: Full Deck WITH VOTING JUST 10 DAYS AWAY in Georgia’s hotly contested runoff between Nathan Deal and Karen Handel for the GOP gubernatorial nomination, most of Cobb County’s Republica...
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