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Sports December 12, 2024

Why Atlanta Braves Fans Shouldn’t Get Mad At Max Fried

By John A. Tures, Professor of Political Science, LaGrange College There are two ways to react to Atlanta Braves ace Max Fried signing with the New York Yankees for a…

Cobb County December 11, 2024

Sonya Allen sworn in as Cobb DA

Sonya Allen was sworn in as Cobb County District Attorney. Georgia Supreme Court Justice Verda M. Colvin administered the oath of office. Allen is the first elected Black woman to…

History December 11, 2024

Atlanta’s Hollywood Cemetery part 2 – Insolvency and Streetcar Disputes

This is an expanded and updated version of an article we published in May of 2016, and was the second installment in a series about Hollywood Cemetery, a large cemetery…

History December 10, 2024

Hollywood Cemetery’s 19th Century beginnings

This is a revised and expanded version of a story originally published in the Courier in May 2016. At that time, the Cobb County Courier was called River Edges and…

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Health Care December 8, 2024

How Measles, Whooping Cough, and Worse Could Roar Back on RFK Jr.’s Watch

This article by Arthur Allen first appeared in KFF Health News, republished with permission. Arthur Allen December 6, 2024 The availability of safe, effective covid vaccines less than a year…

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Cumberland December 8, 2024

Bank of America awards $200K to Nobis Center

By Mark Woolsey Bank of America has announced a $200,000 grant award to Cobb-County-based Tommy Nobis Center as part of its 2024 Neighborhood Builder program. The bank says Nobis and…

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National December 7, 2024

How a director of national intelligence helps a president stay on top of threats from around the world

by Gregory F. Treverton, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] In all the arguments over whether President-elect Donald…

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Immigration December 7, 2024

Long-standing American principle of birthright citizenship under attack from Trump allies

by Carol Nackenoff, Swarthmore College and Julie Novkov, University at Albany, State University of New York, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] As President-elect Donald J….

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Marietta December 6, 2024

Marietta wins first place in its population category in the Digital Cities Survey

The City of Marietta announced in a news release on its web page that it was awarded first place in the 2024 Digital Cities Survey by the Center for Digital…

Georgia State Capitol on mostly sunny day

Opinion December 6, 2024

Bookman: Kemp has complex political calculus ahead as he ponders leaving Georgia Governor’s Mansion

by Jay Bookman, Georgia Recorder, [This article first appeared in the Georgia Recorder, republished with permission] December 5, 2024 If you drew up a list of the two dozen people…

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