Category: Random
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Hillary Clinton office opens in Atlanta
Sign up and find out how to engage here. Make some calls, stuff some envelopes, knock on doors. Whatever floats your boat. Even small actions can make a big difference in a tossup state. Yes, Georgia is in play people! As is apparently South Carolina. Save Save
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Happy Revolution Day
AKA Democracy for America 2.0 Day: [Bernie Sanders’] group, dubbed Our Revolution, is set to debut Wednesday evening. But eight of the group’s 13 or so staffers resigned over the weekend after former campaign manager Jeff Weaver was brought in to run the group. The remaining staffers, some of whom stayed for personal reasons, all…
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Hot cocoa? Really?
On Tuesday I attended the 14th annual Georgia WAND Real State of the Union event. As in years past, Jay Bookman, liberal columnist for the AJC and Janice Mathis, President of the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW) addressed the crowd with their take on the current “state” of our union. Initially meant to be a…
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Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story?*
Knock.Knock. Hello, is anyone out there? In the wake of the Great Peach Pundit Blogger Breakup I felt the timing might be right to dust off my password and see if this thing still works. It appears it does. Yay. Just when you thought blogging had gotten dull, leave it to the son of master…
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Trinity Avenue Urban Farm finalists want answers
Four years later, City Hall still hasn’t announced winner of ambitious contest — or $25,000 prize Barth says they organized a team and spent “hundreds and hundreds” of man-hours fine-tuning the 42-page proposal, which they turned in at deadline. “We were trying to do so much with it and flesh out that idea to the…
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Will Someone Please Give Kasim Reed a Big Ol’ Glass of STFU?
BatGurl here. It’s been a hot minute, (*blows dust off cape*) but I’m back because someone is being petulant again. Since losing the Chair’s election in 2013, the Non-Partisan Mayor of Atlanta hasn’t been around the DPG much. He refused to endorse our nominee for Governor. He’s talked sh*t about the DPG. And now, boys…