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Education March 4, 2024

Cobb schools staff pressured media, accessed student files inappropriately, documents show

by Rebecca Gaunt More than 700 documents returned as part of an open records request have revealed disturbing messages exchanged by Cobb County School District staff in the central office….

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2024 Elections March 3, 2024

Qualifying begins Monday for candidates in the 2024 election

The qualifying period for non-presidential candidates in the 2024 election begins tomorrow: Monday March 4. The Cobb County Board of Elections and Registration issued a statement to clarify where candidates…

Elections February 27, 2024

75 Cobb Voters Receive Wrong Ballots, Fix Announced

Seventy-three voters were sent incorrect ballots by Cobb Elections and Registration and are being notified of the error. Only Republican primary ballots were sent out with the 194 ballots that…

Elections February 26, 2024

GOP backs voting by mail, yet turns to courts to restrict it in battleground states

by Zachary Roth, Georgia Recorder [This article first appeared in the Georgia Recorder, republished with permission] February 25, 2024 Fearing that Democrats hold a crucial edge in ballots cast before…

2024 Elections February 25, 2024

How is the turnout for early voting in Cobb County so far?

Below is the unofficial count of how many people have voted in advance voting so far in Cobb County for the March 12, 2024, Presidential Preference Primary. This list comes…

Elections February 23, 2024

How politicians can draw fairer election districts − the same way parents make kids fairly split a piece of cake

by Benjamin Schneer, Harvard Kennedy School; Kevin DeLuca, Yale University, and Maxwell Palmer, Boston University, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] Redistricting – the process of…

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International February 23, 2024

Why Bolsonaro failed to overthrow democracy – and why a threat remains

by Guilherme Casarões, Escola de Administração de Empresas de São Paulo da Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV/EAESP), [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] President Jair Bolsonaro summoned…

Opinion February 23, 2024

Bookman: Threats of violence poisoning American politics, damaging democracy

by Jay Bookman, Georgia Recorder February 22, 2024 In emotional court testimony last week, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis recounted the racist vandalism and repeated threats of violence that…

International February 23, 2024

Trump is no Navalny, and prosecution in a democracy is a lot different than persecution in Putin’s Russia

by James D. Long, University of Washington, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] The death of Russian dissident Alexei Navalny, announced on Feb. 16, 2024, lays…

Mableton February 20, 2024

Court proceedings for lawsuit to invalidate Mableton’s incorporation begin March 6

The court proceedings in the lawsuit that seeks to invalidate the referendum that formed the city of Mableton will begin March 6, 2024, in the courtroom of Cobb County Superior…

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