Atlanta went through a wild news cycle Tuesday, with a mass shooting downtown and a deadly bus hijacking (by a man who was on the scene at the downtown mass shooting, no less) and Atlanta PD chief Darin Schierbaum deftly pointed out the downtown shooter should never have had a gun - because he's a convicted felon. Unrelated, but now-convicted felon Donald Trump will also have to forfeit any gun(s) he owns/possesses. Well, Hunter Biden was found guilty of lying on an application to purchase a

Whelp; a three-judge Georgia appeals court panel has put the brakes on the Georgia v. Trump election interference case until October, essentially cementing that the most evidence-laden and damning case against the already-convicted felon won't be tried this calendar year. Sure it'd be easy to berate Fani Willis & Nathan Wade some more, but I've done that plenty. Instead, let's listen in on a local conservative talk show pundit as he celebrates a "win" ... the "law

Don't Forget to tune into our 6:00pm LIVE Brighteon show on Brighteon.TV! Weekly News Report! Well, he's done it. After years of attempting to get a bill on the House floor to #EndTheFed, Thomas Massive has finally introduced a bill that will put every Congressman on notice where they stand on fake #fiatmoney. In clown world, (and I'm here for it!) a cat fight broke out in Congress between #MTG,, #AOC, & another member, leading pundits to ask the question, "Did we just witness the Gettosburg

Here in Georgia and in Washington, too, Republicans are openly stating their willingness to take a "Big Brother" / "big government" approach (to hell with states' rights, but just this once) to disassembling our justice system at the local, state and federal level - all at the behest of one convicted felon. Can you guess who that felon is? He has a lot of sway. Any guesses?The "law and order" party and the party supposedly of "limited government" seeks to

My friend and columnist Issac Bailey penned an op/ed - 'Donald Trump - A Loser Once Again - Is Finally Held Accountable,' which I thought was worthy of some air time, too. His reaction was far more "hinged" than the bevy of unhinged responses from Fox News "personalities" like Jeanine Pirro, Jesse Watters and the Fox News pearl-clutches. Also, pols like Tim Scott were lining up to hyperventilate on cable news channels - but Abby Phillips did her best to hold his feet to

If Sean Hannity's floating "trial balloon" theories with the words "some people are saying ..." you can best believe where there's smoke, there's fire. All the more reason to believe Donald Trump's trying to waffle on the agreed upon June 27th debate here in Atlanta. Pennsylvania governor Josh Shapiro, incidentally, went 'scorched earth" on Trump's continuing predilection for trashing ("sh*t-talking," he phrased it) the United States. I

We live in "the upside down" - a world where a Democrat (Senator Jon Ossoff) goes to the US-Mexico border to call out the other party for its inaction on immigration policy and a world where the "law & order party" is led by a convicted felon defended breathlessly by most of the members of said party. Rep. Lucy McBath was asked if she's much interest or given much thought to running for governor yesterday on WABE's "Politically Georgia" podcast. Hear her

It's been more than a week since a wide swath of the city of Atlanta lacked adequate (if any) water service, but the pundits on local FOX-TV affiliate's "The Georgia Gang" weighed in on their most recent record episode after the calamity. Cathy Woodard being a former city council president made for some clarity (and more questions, too) but conservative pundit Brian Robinson made a few points (some I actually agreed with) - and one in particular called for some historical clarity

The Dr. Phil (and obviously filtered and edited) interview of a convicted felon, the former President, Donald Trump, was predictably awful. Imagine 50-plus minutes of a man clearly in need of a psychologist, spewing lie after lie, laced with hyperbole and other half-truths, while the 'doctor" fails diagnose the chronically lying narcissist.You just come away convinced they're both facades; or at least it's now confirmed. --- Send in a voice message:

We hold our breath now and keep our fingers crossed the last of the "Atlanta water crisis" leaks have been addressed and there aren't more major breaks to come. The thing is, when we're replacing pipe laid in 1883, it's likely only a matter of time. We've put a lot of heat on Mayor Andre "in Memphis" Dickens, but why on earth has Georgia's governor said not word one about the state's largest city's water woes? When Dr. Anthony Fauci stepped down from

Now that we're (hopefully) in the final hours of "Aquapocalypse" (or are we going with "Watergeddeon?"), city council had the chance yesterday to grill its watershed commissioner, Al Wiggins, Jr., yesterday, and for the most part, the engagement was polite - with a lot of deserved commendation for the department's employees' putting in the work. That said, communications was the key gripe, and it extends to the mayor, per Bill Torpy at the AJC. Local media finally

Author columnist and longtime journalist George Chidi of The Atlanta Objective joined me today to discuss - at length - the weekend calamity that was the "Atlanta water crisis." George was on many of the scenes over the weekend giving first-hand accounts of water main breaks. Meanwhile, questions arise as to why Mayor Andre Dickens knew of the break and still got on a plane headed to Memphis for a fundraiser for his re-election. Also, why is he fundraising in Memphis at all? Lastly, the

I happen to think having Atlantan Chase Oliver on the presidential ballot as the Libertarian party candidate this November takes Georgia off the table for Biden/Harris. Hear why I believe the actions of Mayor Andre Dickens and the majority on Atlanta's city council have cost the President a key chunk of the state's grassroots liberal activists' support.I spoke with Mishael White, aiming to represent district 81 in the Georgia House, today. He's up against a MAGA ne'er do well

Seth Taylor, a Fulton County Democratic Party captain and 2024 DNC delegate "outed" 11th Congressional district Democratic Party nominee Katy Stamper as a "GOP plant." If she isn't, she's at the very least an anti-trans "secure the border" moderate. Then again, she lives in Cherokee County, where a school board vice chair is also openly anti-trans and nothing was done about that ,so ... While discussing the Cherokee School Board, Seth pointed to a 2022 story in

While Donald Trump catches up on his naps in court and cable TV news fixates on that theater, there's still plenty to glean from the latest New York Times/Sienna College poll of registered voters. With Georgia showing a 49-39 margin for the indicted, embattled former President, I wanted to dive in and take a deep swim, so that's literally all I did today. So ... how accurate are political polls, anyway? --- Send in a voice message:

Emory's commencement ceremonies came & went today without much fanfare - which by most Emory students' accounts, would've been the case on the school's campus had police not been utilized to squelch protests weeks ago. It's worth mentioning (so I do), by the way, that independent studies show that 97% of American pro-Palestinian protests were peaceful - and half the ones where police stormed in "became" violent. "Correlation has entered the chat." Also why

Matthew Pantelis speaks with Environment Minister Dr Susan Close & Chair, Dog and Cat Management Board David Parkin on tough penalties for owners whose dogs attack. Listen live on the FIVEAA Player. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Chris Dowd, aka "Athens Politics' Nerd" joined to update us on the situation in Athens/Clarke County and on the University of Georgia campus, plus VPOTUS Kamala Harris launched her economic opportunities tour in nearby College Park and I have her entire sit-down to review together. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ronshowatl/message

This conversation originally aired July of 2023, after I'd read a piece in the Washington Post about a Hartwell, Georgia baptist preacher who was bucking the Southern Baptist Convention (the church has since left that organization) and welcoming all who sought to worship there.He's (several times now) offered prayer at Hartwell's annual pride celebration, and welcomes with a message of acceptance for everyone seeking refuge to worship. After weeks, now, of Harrison Butler-talk, it's

All my years in radio broadcasting taught me that low-yield responses made for garbage data to make decisions off of, so maybe Tuesday's super-low turnout means "disregard it," but I'm joined today by Andrew Heaton, political strategist with Sagamore Hill Consulting, to discuss what to (and not to) make of the results anyway. I got a little heat for opting to "shrug off" Harrison Butker and my outrage for his 19th century commencement speech, but I'm actually very