Atlanta mayor Andre Dickens & police chief Darin Schierbaum held a press conference in the aftermath of recent vandalism allegedly at the hands of anti-public safety training facility. In this presser, the mayor and chief made the case that protestors were shirking peaceful and democratic means, but isn't actually true that those opposed to "Cop City" tried the peaceful & democratic route only to be obstructed at every turn?Housing starts are down somewhat significantly, year

101 year old woman keeps getting confused for a baby at airports because the computer thinks she was born in 2022 not 1922… Utah family reunited with cat after she was shipped to California in a Amazon box return... Alabama hospital had two separate newborns named June Carter and Johnny Cash... & more.

APRIL 29, 2024 We are back with another episode of the AlphaVets Podcast and today CatTheGreat stopped by to join me while Israel still takes some much needed R&R.  Cat and I discuss the many eye opening events that keep happening all over this country and the world.  We talk about the crazy weather, the chaos breaking out on college campuses and how "The Biden" is the biggest Red Pill humanity could have hoped for.  We talk about that and much more.  God Bless You & Enjoy.

Huzzah - most the Atlanta Beltline will be done in time for the World Cup in 2026. And? Most soccer fans will be nowhere near it, so forgive me if I don't understand the celebratory tone over that milestone. Aid to Ukraine - tied to aid to Israel and Taiwan AND a potential TIkTok ban - may have damning effects on support for the incumbent President from the under-30 voter. I discuss that and more with Andrew Heaton, political consultant with Sagamore Hill Consulting. --- Send in a voice

In this episode I speak to Catherine Neilan. She is the Political Editor of Tortoise Media. The outlet was founded in 2019 with the aim of promoting ‘slow news’, hence the name. Amongst other innovations, Tortoise hosts editorial-style meetings with its members, opening up journalism in the process. I spoke to Cat about her transition from business journalism to politics, the state of the Lobby. And what life is like as a political hack, covering Westminster and its often unsociable...

Georgia governor Brian Kemp did a wide-ranging interview with the "Politically Georgia" podcast hosts last Thursday, which aired last Friday morning on WABE-FM and via podcast (listen here). In it, Greg Bluestein, Tia Mitchell, Patricia Murphy and Bill Nigut grilled the governor to figure out where his support for the GOP presidential nominee is (we know where wife, Marty, stands, for now), his views on immigration, his stance on abortion rights in the face of 'dog catches car'

Not gonna lie; I hopped around the local & national headlines a bit, today, without much of an agenda, but did touch on a former city of Atlanta CFO admitting guilt in a near-decade long case where he was charged with use of funds for personal gain, among other things. Kudos to the AJC for its investigation into poor handling of 911 calls by Atlanta and other metro agencies. Also, new WIC guidelines evoke reminders of former First Lady Michelle Obama pursuing healthier food options for children

We've been hearing a lot of guff lately over dueling development proposals - one in Forsyth, the other in Alpharetta - with professional hockey arenas as centerpieces. Well, there seems to have been movement (literally) putting either or both on hold or providing some doubt for the near term. Governor Brian Kemp is getting ahead of everyone and crapping on any notion of potential Medicaid expansion in 2025, despite his alternative program spending most of its $26 million (so far) on

Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr joined Tuesday's "Politically Georgia" podcast and had strong thoughts about enjoining a lawsuit against the Biden administration's efforts to ramp up student loan forgiveness but not much to say about why he chose (seemingly unilaterally) not to pursue that "rule of law" preening posture when attempts to overturn the 2020 election were on his desk. Marge Greene seems to be (nearly) alone on an island (and backtracking) over her latest

The former President swooped in last week for some Buckhead bucks-grabbing but made an impromptu (or was it?) stop in Vine City to close the deal on an astroturfed photo op. That's right, it was staged. Dr. Jason Johnson and podcast host Clay Cane autopsied the whole thing, and while I take issue with Dr. Johnson casting aspersions on the Chick Fil-A franchise owner for not going all "Joe the Plumber" on Trump, the conversation otherwise properly frames the set-up for what it was:

Originally airing May 6, 2023 HERE I got to hang out with CNN producer, Kennesaw State professor & Anecdotal ATL creator & host Will Edmunds. DO follow @anecdotalATL on ⁠Instagram⁠ and/or ⁠TikTok ⁠and learn SO much Atlanta history that's not "textbook history" and get to know how it came to be and meet Will with me!

Two Thursdays ago, Stacey Abrams joined a Howard University symposium - "Black Women in Politics" - and I'm sharing that audio today, along with a short Q&A after it, where Abrams referenced voter suppression tactics and Medicaid expansion filibusters here in Georgia. Meanwhile, last weekend, Fareed Zaharia invoked Abrams in a "whataboutist" stretch of sorts. In a conversation on 'Real Time with Bill Maher,' he tried comparing Abrams' not conceding in 2018 to

It had been a minute since 'Atlanta Voice' editor-in-chief Donnell Suggs had been on the show, so I reached out to him last night to see if he had some time today and, fortunate for me, he did!We covered a range of topics - from the Mets getting the better of the Braves this week (what?!?) to OJ Simpson's passing and social media making light of it to Trump's Atlanta visit and polling data for black voters, comedienne Dulce Sloan's love for Atlanta, to the shouting match at a

Former president Donald Trump swooped into metro Atlanta Wednesday (that explains the traffic ... ) for a Buckhead fundraiser but made a Vine City Chick Fil-A stop where he ordered "30 milkshakes and some chicken" (Strips? Nuggies? Sandwiches? Wraps?) which went viral, as did his taking photos with mostly black patrons. We call this "astro-turfing" because the truth is, it was all a set-up. More on that on Monday's show. He also regurgitated the lie that he "saved

Labour MP and chair of the Commons Petitions Committee Cat Smith and CEO of pollsters Thinks Insight & Strategy Ben Shimshon join PoliticsHome's Adam Payne and Alain Tolhurst a major new Mood of the Nation survey, featuring excerpts from an accompanying focus group of 2019 Tory voters. Presented by Alain Tolhurst, produced by Nick Hilton for Podot, edited by Laura Silver

Another example of "dog catches car" in Arizona yesterday as a (GOP-packed) state Supreme Court believes an 1864 law (that predates Arizona even being a state) is where reproductive rights is properly codified. The former governor who packed that court, the current GOP Senate candidate (and Trump pet) - who on the record two years ago supported going back to that 1864 law - and other Republicans are now backtracking because a ballot measure will also land on Arizona ballots in 2024 with 11

Chechnya authorities have banned music that is too fast or too slow... Tokyo man arrested for rubbing his butt on a water tap... A Dublin man appeared in court naked after his “emotional support” cat went missing during a traffic stop arrest… & more.

As Georgia's final legislative day on the calendar in 2024 - 'Sine Die' - came today, it's worth reviewing the bills jammed through both the Senate and House before the grande finale, so we'll eavesdrop on GPB's "Lawmakers" to get a feel for what's passing and what isn't. One I actually love - and spearheaded by a Republican I actually kinda like - provides renter protections & insists on livable standards for rented properties.Meanwhile, the

Today begins a six-week (I bet it's at least eight) stretch where airport passengers and employees have to live without its MARTA station "at" Hartsfield-Jackson and with current transit woes and metro growth projections, of course the region and state is behind where it needs to be. So I felt it necessary to build off the conversation had on yesterday's "The Georgia Gang" (airing locally on WAGA-TV/Fox 5) segment that dove in on MARTA, in-city "Beltline" rail,

An Alabama statehouse race saw a Democrat run, well, like a Democrat and - what do you know - she won! Sure turnout was low, but that might be the case in an election cycle where no one's excited about the choices atop the tickets. It was also, after all, just a day ago, Georgia WIN List's Melita Easters said we still have plenty of "reckoning" coming, post-Dobbs. NBC News pulled the plug on the 'Ronna McDaniel' experiment, but I find it noteworthy the same conservative