First, something fun: the folks at Wander North Georgia have their "March madness" bracket out - sixteen of the best state parks in North Georgia to visit. I cast my votes - and some were tough calls to make - so feel free to do the same. More importantly, try to visit as many of them as possible! We learned today that Governor Brian Kemp - now in his second and final term as governor and free of repercussion - went ahead and blithely signed SB 140, making gender-affirming care illegal for minors in

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Believe it or not, as contentious as the rhetoric was between Republicans and Democrats in the SB140 (anti-trans "gender-affirming care" ban), a big group of legislators and staffers still thought it would be cool to leave that Senate vote for a kickball game between the House and Senate. Poor optics. I've an idea, though: how about we get these two teams to take on a couple of LGBTQ+ Atlanta-area kickball teams, instead? It's CLEAR some conservatives need to hang out with people they're not used to

After a vote last night to audit MARTA, Atlanta city council members went before the media today to explain why. MARTA released a jaw-dropping statement, by the way. This line in particular: "The best thing the politicians on council can do for their constituents in the City of Atlanta is to get out of the way ..." is audacious! We'll go over legislative measures SB 233 (school vouchers) and SB140 (trans youth gender-affirming care ban) today, before welcoming back Jeff Graham from Georgia Equality

Don't fall for the bait, liberal friends; don't cancel your plans and call out from work to sit around waiting to see video of DJT being cuffed and stuffed into the back of a squad car, just yet. Just because he says it's soon to happen doesn't mean it'll happen. For all we know, it's just another in a LONG line of campaign fundraising gambits. Lord knows his Truth Social timeline is FILLED with those. Focusing more on what is and isn't moving along in the final week of the Georgia legislative

Jeff Graham , executive director at Georgia Equality, leads off talking SB140 - a bill seeking to outlaw gender-affirming care for trans youth, along with some discussion about school voucher discrimination & the new Tennessee anti-drag law. It's definitely not a good time to be Tucker Carlson these days, but then he and most Fox News opinion spinners seem to lack self-awareness anyhow. Lastly, the DOJ reports back on Louisville KY police discrimination & acts of overt racism in its

I'm unsure how metro Augusta conservatives think their poorly-contrived de-annexation idea will fare better under the Gold Dome, but bless those idiots for dreaming. Speaking of, finally some hard data on public opinion and - lo and behold - the PEOPLE of Buckhead didn't want to leave Atlanta OR form their own city - oh and "cop city" isn't at or above 50% with respondents, either. Oops. Our buddy Jay Bookman stings the latest school voucher bill with a steady dose of reality. Confession: I've long

Professing to be "protecting kids" (just not from guns), Georgia legislative Republicans ignored medical consensus and rammed through SB-140, the bill limiting trans youth medical options. It heads back to the Senate for what's likely to be another party-line vote to the governor's desk. Seems like a good time to revisit my conversation with Brock, a friend of mine who's "just a dude," but wasn't always.

Mikayla Arciaga with the Intercultural Development Research Association joins me to start the show, reviewing the hits & misses at the state legislative level so far when it comes to public education. Then, let's be honest: Marjorie Taylor Greene's spokesman said it best: "do you think they (her MAGA base) give a f**k about your bulls**t fact checking?" That tribe seems irreproachable ... not worth the time to try and have persuasive dialogue with because, if decades of Fox News exposures

SB-140, the anti-trans youth "gender affirming care" blocking legislation that made it out of the Senate, was before a House subcommittee today and we go through a big chunk of it. Rest assured, Democrats, your team didn't win the vote, but they sure as heck came away looking knowledgeable on the subject, while their opposition looked completely befuddled and lacking in data. Shocking, right?

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Whew; the news we awoke to today from Athens, where Athens-Clarke police laid out their findings that detailed a raucous night of drinking and street-racing on January 15th, leading to two UGA football-related deaths. For potential top NFL draftee Jalen Carter, it was not a good day for him. He bowed out of media time at the combine earlier today, likely because he'd be asked why he fled the scene of the accident only to return 90 minutes later. Next up, there appears to be growing consensus that

To recap, eight Georgia state senators from nowhere near Buckhead want Buckhead to become a city seceding from Atlanta, while a majority of Buckhead residents when polled, say "nah." General Assembly reps say the same, and now the Buckhead Coalition - an elite group of Buckhead movers & shakers - notably in the business realm - have spoken against it, too. Their leader is a former Sonny Perdue chief of staff. REPUBLICAN Sonny Perdue. Remember my rant yesterday over financial pundit pinheads

Despite being absolutely embarrassed by some pointed questioning by the likes of Sen. Jason Estevers - an ACTUALLY from Buckhead representative, Randy Robertson - state senator from not-even-nearby Cataula, Georgia - got his two bills (SB 113,114) passed along party lines out of Senate Committee in an effort to create a "city of Buckhead city." But for ish & giggles, listen to he and his cronies inability to answer some pretty basic stuff about their "three-year process." Speaking of

There's a concerted effort, of late, to show the local involvement to at least ask questions about the future Atlanta Police Training Center - aka "Cop City." Between a local clergy organization and a Thursday night protest at the King Center, maybe now we can stop accepting that most of those against the use of the South River watershed land for the training facility are from "outside Georgia." That whole "outside agitator" rhetoric smacks of Jim Crow-era sneering anyhow. Well, on that note, Eric

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I definitely have a favorite Republican - Kasey Carpenter. He's going way further for DREAMERS than any Republican I can think of. Hear what his latest bill does for them. "School choice" is on the legislative agenda again, so a reminder what we learned about that earlier this week. Speaking of schools, the "anti-woke" rhetoric from the right is traumatizing kids, but lesbian & gay teachers, too. My guest today - Randy Fair - wrote the book "Southern. Gay. Teacher" and recently penned an op/ed

Now that Georgia legislative "crossover day" is behind us, I'll take a look at what bills made it and which ones didn't. Notably, we'll be living "Final Destination" cosplay on state highways with heavier logging trucks, apparently, and Republicans just can't quit trying to starve public education funding by coughing up taxpayer dollars to private (mostly parochial) schools, either. Then there's the anti-trans youth vitriol. Conservatives love bullying the marginalized, don't they? They speak about

It's my birthday! Let me tell you how I spent a good bit of my day, before diving into today's show. The NTSB report seems to indicate the rail industry's push for less regulatory oversight under Trump (aka "the waterboy") has - surprise- come back to haunt Ohioans. Even FOX NEWS' Steve Doocey acknowledged this ON THE AIR. Hear it for yourself; but this also goes to show that preventative measures can't always bear statistical data unless they're taken away. Except in Texas, where shunned gun