The Georgia Department of Public Health had continuing issues with the Electronic Laboratory Reporting system, so did not issue a Daily Status Report for today, but they did issue a…
By Melanie Dallas, LPC, CEO of Highland Rivers Behavioral Health Since 2005, the first week of May has been recognized as Children’s Mental Health Awareness Week. I usually use that…
By Idan Ginsburg, Georgia State University [First published in The Conversation, used with permission] “I see thy glory like a shooting star.” So says the Earl of Salisbury as he…
Cobb County Board of Commissioners Chairwoman Lisa Cupid and County Manager Jackie McMorris have decided to hold the next few BOC meeting virtually due to the county’s spike in COVID-19…
The Georgia Department of Public Health has suspended its reporting on PCR COVID-19 test data from the column in which it normally appears in the Daily Status Report due to…
After the Georgia Department of Transportation gave us a holiday break from the routine of lane closures for road work, it’s back to business as usual, as the GDOT resumes…
By Arielle Robinson The Courier interviewed Marcus Flowers, a Democrat running for Georgia’s 14th Congressional District, by phone Wednesday afternoon. Flowers seeks to unseat current U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene,…
Dr. Janet Memark, District Health Director for Cobb & Douglas Public Health, distributed the following update on COVID in Cobb and Douglas counties, calling the number of cases “astronomical.” Good…
The numbers in this report are from the Georgia Department of Public Health COVID-19 Daily Status Report, posted yesterday afternoon at 3 p.m., and from the summary posted on the…
After the COVID figures for Georgia and Cobb County have not been available since before New Year’s Day, the CDC’s tracking numbers for Cobb County (which they get from the…