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Revised Falcons Stadium Plan: More Expensive; Less Stupid; Still Blackmail

Peach Pundit

Today’s Courier Herald Column: The Georgia World Congress Center Authority weighed in Wednesday with some revised plans for a new Falcons Stadium to replace the less than 20 year old Georgia Dome.  The team and the authority have finally ceded the poin... »

Georgia’s latest boondoggle just got pricier

Atlmalcontent

The Falcons and the Georgia World Congress Center Authority have agreed that a retractable-roof stadium that would result in the demolition of the Georgia Dome is their best plan going forward. Actually the best plan going forward would be spending the... »

Deal appoints former aide to important GDOT post

Fresh Loaf

Gov. Nathan Deal on Friday tapped Toby Carr, his transportation adviser and director of his transition committee, to become the all-important director of planning at the Georgia Department of Transportation. If approved by the state House and Senate Tr... »

Congressman Tom Graves To Hold Town Hall In Hall County On May 2nd

Peach Pundit

Congressman Tom Graves intended to hold the Hall County town hall a couple of weeks ago but had a funeral to attend and had to reschedule.  He has now scheduled that town hall in Hall County for Wednesday, May 2nd.  Here are the deets: Hall County Town... »

‘If I were mayor, I would clear trash from parks by handing out flyers’

Political Insider

On Wednesday, the Georgia Municipal Association will announce the winner of its annual “If I Were Mayor…” essay contest. More than 6,200 were submitted from sixth-graders across the state. For the unschooled, that means the authors are 11 and 12 years ... »

April New Media Madness

Peach Pundit

Just in case you bracket junkies didn’t get your fill back in March during the college basketball playoffs, the House Republicans have launched the third annual New Media Challenge.  The goal is to get the most followers on Twitter, most “likes” on Fac... »

Senator Chambliss Supports TSPLOST

Gpb News

Georgia Senator Saxby Chambliss addressed the Atlanta Press Club Monday. He says repairing Medicade, Medicare and Social security will not be enough to get the deficit to level off. The solution, Chabliss says, is in terms of tax reform, but with much ... »

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Red Shirts Commemorate the six victims killed in May's military crackdown

CNN iReport

BANGKOK, April 26 - Anti-establishment "red-shirt" supporters on Thursday began to rally at Ratchaprasong intersection in downtown Bangkok, where the bloody crackdown took place in 2010, to commemorate the event, go6TV's JJ.Sathon reported. The rally i... »

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