Monday notes: Usher, Luda, Fani, torched squad cars & old men
Still buzzing from the very "A-Town" Super Bowl halftime performance by Usher and cast, it was good to catch up with Donnell Suggs, editor in chief at the Atlanta Voice to about the big game, the half...
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It's "the south" v. "Union" all over again
Unions are quite popular so why are Georgia Republicans attacking their right to form? Well, obviously they represent business before the working class. Nothing new there. In real estate we call it "...
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Blinking with insurrection in our faces (again)
The hastily-passed SB63 bill awaiting Governor Brian Kemp's signature will then be met by litigation; at least that's what the American Civil Liberties' Union (ACLU) says. That tracks; because the bil...
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Laying the "poverty & protest-to-prison pipeline"
Despite the state of Georgia being unnecessarily deadly for anyone in jails or prisons, Georgia Republican legislators still felt the need to make it harder for the poor and working class to bail them...
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One of those "nobody's happy" kind of days
While Atlanta's mayor and city council are doing all they can to sour progressive grassroots activists on the Democratic Party, the Fani Willis revelations are seeming to create a snowball effect of c...
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Doom scrolling through gloomy polling
The latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal polling data paints a bleak picture, nine months out, for President Joe Biden. Realizing we're still nine months out is small comfort when you look back at 2020...
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Fani 'fesses up & what gives with the anti-Taylor triggeration?
Matt Scott joined me today from the Atlanta Community Press Collective to speak to the Georgia Senate bill (SB63) aiming to expand the list of offenses requiring cash bail and to limit bail funds' abi...
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Getting caught up on "Cop City," Kemp's Border Ploy & an anti-woke whiner
Outside of some random arson incidents targeting construction equipment and some demonstrations, it's been pretty quiet on the "Cop City" front - and to hear my guest, Alex Joseph, tell it - that's by...
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