by Steven Pressman, The New School, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] Republicans and Democrats are again playing a game of chicken over the U.S. debt…
The office of Cobb County Sheriff Craig Owens announced that the General Education Development (GED) test was administered to detainees at the Cobb County Adult Detention Center for the first…
Cobb County posted a list of Juneteenth events available around the county. Juneteenth commemorates June 19, 1865, the day that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned that they were free….
by Hannibal Travis, Florida International University, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] The Supreme Court has made it more difficult to quote from existing imagery, music…
Cobb Landmarks & Historical Society, Inc. is celebrating National Historic Preservation Month with a Preservation Awards Ceremony and Reception on May 27, at 5 p.m. The ceremony will be held…
The Gritters Library branch of the Cobb County Public Library system will close at 5 p.m. on June 17 in preparation for a long-awaited new building. Crews will remove materials…
By John A. Tures, Professor of Political Science, LaGrange College Top American sportswriter Rick Reilly took a whack at Pickleball, the latest U.S. sports craze, in a Washington Post column….
by Pawan Jain, West Virginia University, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] Artificial Intelligence-powered tools, such as ChatGPT, have the potential to revolutionize the efficiency, effectiveness…
A Special Land Use Permit (SLUP) for a used car dealership on Veterans Memorial Highway in Mableton was denied unanimously by the Cobb County Board of Commissioners at their zoning…
by Arielle Robinson At Monday evening’s Smyrna City Council meeting, city council members hosted a public hearing about the proposed fiscal year 2024 budget, approved alterations to the city’s public…