The Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation’s senior vice president for public policy, Karen Handel, resigned from her post Tuesday morning following the breast cancer group’s decision to de-fund, then re-fund, Planned Parenthood. (more)
In the wake of an immigration snafu at The University of Georgia, football commit Chester Brown has signed on to play football for the The University of Central Florida. (more)
When John McCain proclaimed in 2008, “Today, we’re all Georgians,” unfortunately he was not talking about the Southern state. No, the 2008 Republican presidential nominee was declaring his — indeed, all of our — support for the nation of Georgia, which that year became involved in a brief military conflict with neighboring Russia over who had claim to the region of South Ossetia. Which country’s soldiers fired first became a matter of international dispute, but the Bush administration made clear that this would not become America’s dispute; there would be no military response by the United States. Defense Secretary Robert Gates stressed that America had successfully avoided a shooting war with Russia during the Cold War and he saw “no reason to change that approach today.” (more)
Law enforcement officials have charged 12 people with using absentee ballots to skew an election in Georgia. (more)
ATLANTA (AP) — Federal agents arrested four suspected members of a Georgia militia on charges of plotting attacks with toxins and explosives in Atlanta and against unnamed government officials. (more)
Bob Barr served as a colorful congressman from Georgia between 1995 and 2003. Now, he’s considering a comeback. (more)
ST MARYS, Ga. — Camden County officials are considering a money-saving program that would put inmates in fire stations. (more)
A spokesperson for civil rights movement icon and Democratic Rep. John Lewis of Georgia told The Daily Caller that it was “the people” who censored him in Atlanta this weekend. Lewis had attended an “Occupy Atlanta” protest and was ready to speak, but protesters there voted against allowing Lewis to take the microphone. The protesters, in their consensus-driven assembly model, argued that Lewis was no more important than any other person there. (more)
Conservatives in Georgia are outraged that a speaker’s Constitution Day presentation was canceled at a local high school after complaints from Democrats. (more)
JACKSON, Georgia (AP) — Georgia executed a man for the murder of an off-duty police officer, a crime he denied committing right to the end as supporters around the world mourned and declared that an innocent man was put to death. (more)
JACKSON, Ga. (AP) — Defiant until the end, Troy Davis was executed Wednesday night for the murder of an off-duty police officer. He convinced hundreds of thousands of people around the world, but not a single court, that he was innocent. (more)
Pro-life advocates have launched a new eyebrow-raising billboard in downtown Atlanta to bring attention to what they say are the pro-abortion views of many civil rights leaders. (more)
The country has been shocked by news that the award-winning Atlantic Public School system achieved its students’ high test scores via nearly a decade of systematic cheating by teachers and administrators. (more)
Despite yesterday’s mass exodus, some staffers are sticking by Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich. Georgia Governor Nathan Deal, Gingrich’s Georgia campaign chairman, said today he will never give Gingrich up, never let him down. (more)
As former speaker of the House Tip O’Neill said, “All politics is local.” In Georgia this weekend, national politics became local when two Georgians — former speaker of the House Newt Gingrich and businessman and Tea Party favorite Herman Cain — came to the Georgia GOP convention to ask for the attendees’ support. (more)
Although they lack a clear presidential front-runner, Republican Party leaders are confident on their 2012 prospects when it comes to House races. National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) political director Mike Shields rattled off a list of Democrats nationwide they’re targeting in the upcoming cycle, including Reps. Jim Matheson of Utah, Adam Smith and Rick Larsen of Washington state, Raul Grijalva of Arizona, Ben Chandler of Kentucky and John Barrow of Georgia. (more)
An elderly Georgian woman was scavenging for copper to sell as scrap when she accidentally sliced through an underground cable and cut off internet services to all of neighbouring Armenia, it emerged on Wednesday. (more)
In the last 24 hours, former U.S. House speaker Newt Gingrich has touched base with several prominent Republicans in his former home state, telling them that he intends to make a run for president in 2012 using Georgia as his base – and that he already has his eye on office space in Buckhead for a campaign headquarters. (more)
Two school systems in Georgia will resume classes on Martin Luther King Jr. Day to make up for last week’s snow day, drawing much criticism from the NAACP. (more)
“There’s nothing new under the sun,” said President Harry Truman, “there’s only history we haven’t learned yet.” The history we haven’t learned yet was on display on page one of the Washington Post last week. Post writers Philip Rucker and David Farenthold reported on the reading of the Constitution by newly sworn-in members of the 112th Congress. (more)
