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Cobb BOC Chairwoman Lisa Cupid at lectern during her second swearing-in ceremony

Cobb County February 3, 2022

Lisa Cupid issues statements on Cobb County cityhood movement and redistricting

Chairwoman Lisa Cupid of the Cobb County Board of Commissioners issued the following statements on the movements to form new cities in the county, and on the redistricting maps proposed…

Boundaries of the proposed city of East Cobb (screenshot of draft of interactive map by Larry Johnson ... interactive map will be published soon)

Cobb County April 6, 2021

New push for East Cobb cityhood

The coalition that led the opposition to the failed first-round East Cobb Cityhood drive is weighing in on the renewed effort-and they don’t seem like it one bit better than…

a screenshot of the six districts in Mableon, with 1,2,3 to the south, 4, 5, 6 to the north

Mableton, Opinion March 18, 2023

March Mableton Madness: The Big Dance of De-annexation

By John A. Tures, Professor of Political Science, LaGrange College The biggest story in Cobb County this month is….the Kennesaw State University Owls making the March Madness tournament and nearly…

Mableton February 11, 2023

Q&A with Mableton City Council District 4 candidates

By Rebecca Gaunt The newly-established city of Mableton will have its first election day for mayor and city council on March 21. Eight candidates qualified for the District 4 race….

Madelyn Orochena speaks at Cobb Elections headquarters (photo by Rebecca Gaunt)

2022 Elections November 18, 2022

Memory card mishap means a recount for Kennesaw election

By Rebecca Gaunt In an election cycle fraught with problems for Cobb County, Madelyn Orochena had already started preparing to be sworn in Monday as the new Post 1 Kennesaw…

A map showing the breakdown of the cityhood vote for Mableton in the southern triangle in Cobb County

Mableton November 9, 2022

With a significant lead in the unofficial count, Mableton might become a city

The count is unofficial, and there are still uncounted absentee ballots, but the “yes” vote on Mableton cityhood has a significant lead. The numbers below are from the votes counted…

2022 Elections November 5, 2022

Redistricting error found affecting Cobb Board of Education Posts 2 and 6

By Rebecca Gaunt Voters found a redistricting error during the last week of advance voting that placed 121 voters into Cobb County school board Post 2 who should have been…

a map showing the boundaries of the proposed new cities in Cobb County

2022 Elections May 26, 2022

Rushed and skeptical voters give thumbs down to three proposed Cobb cities

by Ross Williams, Georgia Recorder [This article first appeared in the Georgia Recorder, republished with permission]May 26, 2022 Efforts to carve three new cities out of Cobb County failed Tuesday…

2022 Elections May 14, 2022

Q & A with Terry Cummings, Democratic hopeful for GA State House District 39

By Arielle Robinson The Courier spoke last week with Terry Cummings, a Democrat running for Georgia House District 39. Cummings ran against incumbent Rep. Erica Thomas in the 2020 primaries….

a woman working the polls at the Ponce Library

2022 Elections May 10, 2022

A few glitches raise eyebrows in record-setting Georgia early voting

By Stanley Dunlap, Georgia Recorder [This article first appeared in the Georgia Recorder, republished with permission]May 10, 2022 This story was updated May 10 at 8:10 a.m. to include voting…

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