Mayor Andre Dickens still doesn't have any takers, it would seem, for the Atlanta Medical Center abandoned by Wellstar a year ago, so he's looking to stop any potential development for another six months to see if something might shake out. One councilmember has an idea - an idea similar in price tag to the public safety training facility. Interesting. Bernard Simelton checks in from the Alabama NAACP to tell me what he and his organization have to do now that his state's congressional

The University of Georgia and it's athletic association had a pretty cringey day in court and Alabama got a new Congressional map. Nationally, Republicans are blaming Democrats for issues within the Republican party. Say what? Oh, also, what's up with Donald Trump's latest Nazi-esque "poisoning blood" rhetoric?

Governor Brian Kemp and his economic team took a victory lap presser earlier today to back-slap each other for again earning the distinction of being the "number one" state for business; the problem is, what Georgia's really "number one" for is kowtowing to developers and doling out tax breaks, while key rankings for citizens languish. Stacey Abrams caught a lot of flak in 2022 for pointing that out, but I got her back on this. The big loser (so far) in the Kevin McCarthy

It's been nearly two months since a 62-year old church deacon, John Hollman, died while in police custody at the site of a traffic accident HE called 911 about. To date, the police lapel and/or dash cam video has yet to be released, and Hollman's family wants it out. This, of course, is poor timing for pro-"public safety training facility" folks, but also quite damning if withholding the video - citing policy crafted after the Manuel Teran death, ironically - is an attempt to

Today marks one year since this show launched on AmericaOne Radio - and later via podcast. My first guest that day was Melita Easters from the Georgia WIN List, so she was kind enough to join me again for the full show to preview Heather Cox Richardson's appearances in Atlanta October 10th, along with Heather's new book, "Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America." While Heather Cox Richardson's event at the Carter Presidential Library has long been sold out, you can

Atlanta mayor Andre Dickens' appearance on the Atlanta Journal Constitution's "Politically Georgia" podcast raised eyebrows - both for what he said and for the subtle refutations from those he name-dropped, such as Stacey Abrams and Reverend Senator Raphael Warnock. Hear as I spend some time going over about half of his Q&A with AJC reporters along with former "Political Rewind" host Bill Nigut. There's also the matter of Atlanta's police & fire chiefs

Every time in the last three decades we've arrived at a government shutdown, Republicans have held the House. That's no coincidence. Hell, the GOP can't get along with themselves but Democrats are supposed to work with enough of 'em to keep us afloat? In my opinion, the Atlanta Regional Planning Commission abdicated their responsibility earlier this week, rubber-stamping a proposal to build a "Battery-like" project with an 18,000 hockey arena targeting an NHL franchise;

Without question, the winner of the second GOP debate last night was .... Joe Biden. Ron DeSantis gave his re-election campaign JUST the on-point soundbite needed, and Chris Christie gets the assist, too. In general, the squabbling and inability to have substantive policy discussion just put on display how irresponsible that party is when it comes to deciding which is more fit to lead this nation. That said, we must point out that while Fox Business and Univision televised it, Rumble livestreamed

Freelance journalist Becky Gaunt gave me the blow-by-blow (almost literally) from this week’s Cobb County School Board meeting. Then a little “hockey” (arena) talk before catching up with Cobb County Commissioner Jerica Richardson, who announced her bid for Congress vs Rep. Rich McCormick. Then I want to introduce you to “Politics Girl,” if you haven’t discovered her yet.

It’s a lot of copy cat podcasts out there listening to us and taking what we saying and putting on there platform’s and even one case even stealing our name, so Trapaholik3rd set the record straight and made it reflect. #lettherecordreflect @letitreflect on X

Why's the resignation of a rural Georgia county's elections board chairman a bigger deal than you might think? Well, it's Coffee County, and the "rot" is at least two people deep in just that one county, and yet there's no appetite at the Georgia Secretary of State's office to find out if the rot's even deeper (or in other counties). There's also no appetite for insulating the state's 2024 election results against the possible use of breached data to change

Where I was & what I was doing on 9/1 1 - TWENTY TWO years ago. Time flies, but how fleeting that "united" feeling was, too, no? Meanwhile, the city of Atlanta continues to lose "the narrative" on the Cop City Vote initiative, with another eyeroll-inducing legal stunt as petitioners turn in 116,000+ signatures - about TWICE the number needed. Speaking of 9/11, we didn't discuss this much a month ago, but did y'all know GOP rising star Vivek Ramasawamy was something

Ya know how ya feel when you're playing miniature golf and you manage to slip the ball between the two blades of the spinning windmill? Yeah, Jon Ossoff did that when he announced his support for "a" public training facility for the city of Atlanta, but not necessarily "the" proposed facility in unincorporated south Dekalb County. His presumed 2026 opponent, governor Brian "Brine" Kemp was hemming and hawwing about politicians not speaking "for" or

Dr. Jackie Echols, president of the South River Watershed Alliance, joined me today to clear up any misconceptions given by Atlanta mayor Andre Dickens (on 'Politically Georgia' last week) that the city's answered environmental concerns when it comes to "Cop City." Spoiler alert: he wasn't being honest about that. She and I discuss that and review the many environment issues surrounding construction of the proposed public safety training facility. Nancy Harris, mayor of

Well, knock me over with a feather: Georgia is one of sixteen (almost all of them, southern) states that failed to equitably fund their HBCU land grant school(s) as they did their other(s). Well, the Department of Education (the one the right wants to abolish, of course) is awaiting word how Governor Brian Kemp will address that $603 million gulf. I've some ideas. Remember "tan suit-gate?" Oh the outrage over the shade of suit President Obama wore nine years ago. Whelp; conservatives

Are we in "the upside down?" When I'm agreeing with Erick Erickson and Karl Rove on the same episode, you might think so. In this narrative I get to tie in the Lauren Boebert silliness, Trump's 'Meet The Press' disaster and mock 'fiscal conservatism' in a nice tidy two-segment arc. But I gotta get back to 'Cop City' a bit. Governor Brian Kemp appeared on a local radio show to parrot his recent tweet on the matter and I've some thoughts. Oh and facts

Fulton Sheriff Pat Labat may have some explaining to do ... like why he hired his wife's now defunct companies to consult his political campaigns to the tune of $83k plus the last six years. Smacks of impropriety - no different than Jared & Ivanka making MILLIONS while dad's in office and, if guilty, Hunter while "pop" was VP. A Buckhead murder last weekend has just stuck in my craw since word broke of it; when will there be "that" one (or more) senseless loss that

Join us for Episode 133 as we talk about the freezing incident involving Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Drake's insane bra collection from his music tour, Erica Mena's termination from Love & Hip Hop due to a monkey comment, a review of Doja Cat's "Paint The Town Red" song, Rapper BG's release from prison after serving an 11-year sentence, Diddy reassigning publishing rights to former Bad Boy artists as the record label turns 30, the Los Angeles Lakers make significant offseason moves,

For some legal perspective and internal insights from the 'Cop City Vote' vote movement, frequent guest, former state & federal prosecutor Alex Joseph, took my call today to weigh in on Chris Carr's RICO indictments. Her volunteering with the referendum initiative allowed me to ask if these indictment are having an intimidatory effect on volunteers. News broke today of yet another Fulton County Jail death, too, and with a looming $1.6b to $2 billion price tag for a replacement

After calling rapper Spice a monkey Erica Mena finds herself fired from Love & Hip Hop ATL, Doja Cat says she doesn't diss other female rappers she disses critics, The Sexyy Red "respectability politics" conversations & more.... ---------------------------------------------------------------------------  Timestamp:  00:00 - INTRO/LIFE UPDATE 03:51 - Erica Mena Gets FIRED 17:55 - Pinky Doll Is Black????? 22:34 - Billy Porter Will Not Be Invited To The MET GALA 25:36 - Nicki Minaj 'Last Time I Saw