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Economy December 14, 2023

The US avoided a recession in 2023. What’s the outlook for 2024?

by Casey Quinlan, Georgia Recorder [This article first appeared in the Georgia Recorder, republished with permission] December 12, 2023 Next year is packed with potential shifts in the economy but…

U.S. Congress December 11, 2023

Ex-Speaker McCarthy’s departure from Congress reads like Greek tragedy – but stars a ‘slight unmeritable man’ and not a hero

by Rachel Hadas, Rutgers University – Newark, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s departure from Congress brings to mind ambition and the other…

The comedy and drama mask behind curtains

Politics December 11, 2023

Conservatives’ ‘anti-woke’ alternative to Disney has finally arrived

by Nick Marx, Colorado State University, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] As fanfare blares, female sprinters at the starting line suspiciously eye a man in…

education icon with silhouette of teach in front of class, holding a baton to a board.

Education December 11, 2023

Employees with ties to SPLC-designated extremist group found in Cobb schools district office

by Rebecca Gaunt A tip from a whistleblower triggered an investigation that uncovered three employees in the Cobb County School District main office with ties to Gary DeMar, designated by…

Front of Switzer Library, a brick building with a white columned entranceway

Cobb County December 9, 2023

Universal Human Rights Month booklist from the Cobb Public Library

December is Universal Human Rights Month, and the Cobb County Public Library has prepared a booklist highlighting the observance. December 10 was designated Human Rights day to commemorate the signing…

Education December 5, 2023

How Georgia Educators Helped Students “Cross the Finish Line” to Graduation

By Hannah Watson (Watson is a senior at Kennesaw State University) Georgia’s four-year graduation rate increased to 84.4%, which had never occurred since 2011 Georgia teachers raised the state’s graduation…

Scales of Justice with the word justice over it.

Justice December 4, 2023

A First Amendment battle looms in Georgia, where the state is framing opposition to a police training complex as a criminal conspiracy

by Rachel McKane, Brandeis University and David Pellow, University of California, Santa Barbara, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] When does lawful protest become criminal activity?…

Silhouette of a football player running with the ball

Sports December 1, 2023

‘Twas The Fight Before Christmas: College Football Rankings

by John A. Tures, Professor of Political Science. LaGrange College It’s been said that in Britain, the national sport is gambling. In America, our true national pastime is arguing about…

Entrance to Hooper-McWilliams cemetery, probably erected by boy scouts in the late 1990s

History November 26, 2023

Cobb County’s Hooper family and a Civil War mystery

This is an expanded republication of an article originally published by the Courier on January 1, 2017. There is a second part to this article, in which an authority on…

Sign in front of Cobb & Douglas Public Health on County Services Parkway in article about Cobb & Douglas Public Health hiring

Cobb County November 26, 2023

Cobb & Douglas Public Health to offer free HIV testing tomorrow, Monday November 27

Cobb & Douglas Public Health signage (photo by Larry Felton Johnson) The first of a series of free HIV tests by Cobb & Douglas Public Health will take place tomorrow,…

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