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Opinion July 16, 2024

The Case of George Wallace: How The Public Votes After Assassination Attempts

By John A. Tures, Professor of Political Science, LaGrange College As we mourn the death of a shooting victim and pray for the surviving Trump rally attendees who were wounded,…

Chattahoochee River looking south from Highway 78 toward the site of the South Cobb Water Reclamation Facility repair

Cobb County July 12, 2024

Friends of Smyrna Library to host lecture on Civil War “Chattahoochee River Line”

Photo: Chattahoochee River from the Hwy 278 bridge looking southward — Larry Felton Johnson The Friends of Smyrna Library will hold a lecture this Sunday on the Civil War fortifications…

Austell June 3, 2024

1911 crime story from Austell; a 16-year-old bride flees with her burglar husband

By Larry Felton Johnson I’m going to do this introduction in first-person, because I want to make a personal observation about the story I’ve reprinted below. There are references in…

Grainy photo of alleged forger Horace C. Gray from a 1910 newspaper

Marietta May 27, 2024

Horace C. Gray: Criminal mastermind or harmless blowhard?

Yesterday we ran a Marietta history article based on a 1910 crime feature from the Atlanta Georgian. The Georgian was a newspaper published from 1906 to 1939. For most of…

Marietta May 26, 2024

1910 in Marietta: a con artist jailed, then released, in bizarre forgery case

Flim flam artists have fascinated the public, at least since their exploits were featured, in sometimes exaggerated ways, by pulp fiction writers and tabloid journalists in the late 19th and…

A cartoon terrier holds up a paper with Dog Tax written and a "canceled" stamp over it

Smyrna May 21, 2024

Smyrna in 1907: dog owners up in arms over dog tax exemption for terriers

Image above created with DALL-E from OpenAI, and editing with Canva As editor and publisher of the Cobb County Courier, I often read through old newspapers on the Georgia Historic…

An image of the front page of the Marietta Helicon, a 19th Century Cobb County newspaper

Cobb County March 30, 2024

Cobb County’s two earliest newspapers: the Marietta Advocate and the Marietta Helicon

by Larry Felton Johnson [This is an updated and expanded version of an article we published last December] I have a fascination with old newspapers. As a journalist, examining the…

Marietta January 22, 2024

January 22, 1861: the Marietta Advocate reports on secession

The Courier uses the Georgia Historic Newspaper site housed at the University of Georgia to assemble history articles based on contemporary news reports. From the formation of Cobb County in…

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Cobb County December 30, 2023

Cobb group to offer online genealogy course starting in January

by Rebecca Gaunt Historians and genealogists of all levels have an opportunity to learn more tricks of the trade by registering for the Cobb County Genealogical Society’s annual genealogy course…

Marietta December 27, 2023

Moral panic in 1835 Marietta: The Anti-Gaming Society

In 1835 Marietta had only existed for a year, and Cobb County had only been created two years earlier. It was in many ways a frontier town as the new…

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Georgia April 4, 2025

Delayed PSC races heat up as candidates take aim at Georgia Power rate hikes, data center growth

by Stanley Dunlap, Georgia Recorder, [This article first appeared in the Georgia Recorder, republished with permission] April 4, 2025Several candidates are vying to defeat a pair of incumbent Republican Georgia…

Health Care April 4, 2025

Susan Monarez, Trump’s nominee for CDC director, faces an unprecedented and tumultuous era at the agency

by Jordan Miller, Arizona State University, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] The job of director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention carries immense…

National April 4, 2025

How a lone judge can block a Trump order nationwide – and why, from DACA to DOGE, this judicial check on presidents’ power is shaping how the government works

by Cassandra Burke Robertson, Case Western Reserve University, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] When presidents try to make big changes through executive orders, they often…

Economy April 4, 2025

Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs are the highest in decades − an economist explains how that could hurt the US

by Bedassa Tadesse, University of Minnesota Duluth, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] President Donald Trump unveiled a sweeping new tariff plan on April 2, 2025,…

Marietta April 4, 2025

Georgia Symphony Orchestra and Strand Theatre commit to sensory-friendly programming

The Strand Theatre submitted the following news release about the commitment of the Strand and the Georgia Symphony Orchestra, both based in Marietta, to sensory-friendly programming: In 2025, two of…

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