Emory claims Grady owes it $45 million. Senator Vincent Fort is calling on Emory to write off the debt.
How, here’s the kicker. Ron Sauder, Emory’s spokesman, says

Another campaign shake-up for Fred Thompson:
Thompson’s campaign finance chairman Thomas D. Bell Jr., has relinquished his role as the campaign’s chief money man. The Atlanta-based commercial real estate executive “has his own business commitments that he needs to be 100 percent committed to,” according to Thompson campaign spokeswoman Karen Hanretty.
“He is going to remain active [...]

I’ve voted for myself. Christy claims to have voted for me too. Given that there is no opposition, I guess I can really be called a councilman-elect now. It’s kind of bothered me in the past few months that people have referred to me as such and I had not even been [...]

The Hill has the latest.

If freshly elected Rep. Paul Broun (R-Ga.) had any illusions about an easy reelection next year, they were quickly shattered earlier this month when third-quarter financial reports went public.
His primary opponent, state Rep. Barry Fleming (R), out-raised him by $220,000, sticking Broun with one of the biggest cash deficits among incumbents [...]

Today is his birthday, you know.
Also born on this day are…
Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek;
Mr. “White Chocolate”, Vanilla Ice;
John “who was awesome in Uncle Buck” Candy;
former Today Show host Jane Pauley;
Adam “Beastie Boys” Horovitz;
Larry “U2″ Mullen Jr.;
Michael “Little House On The Prairie” Landon;
Dan “Can we get a fact checker” Rather;
Mr. “Lord of the Rings”, Peter Jackson; [...]

The Zero Intellect Tolerance Patrol

About 100 northeast Georgians met at Oconee High School last night to partake in an Old South tradition: a prayer service. What was the prayer service for? A friend, perhaps, lost before his time? Some other issue of personal grief and gravity?
Well, yes — that is, if your personal happiness is tied to the amount [...]

I’ve posted some of my favorite scenes from my favorite horror movies over at my blog (not posting them here due to content and language).
Happy Halloween!!!

This is troubling.
Hat tip to Creative Loafing for publishing it and to Vic Jones for emailing me the link.

This makes sense, but it’s bad form. I have no intention of saving all my emails. I get over 1,000 after spam emails a day. I suppose I could conceivably get a Gmail account just for city business. That might be the answer for everyone.
State District Judge Gena Slaughter has ruled [...]

He live blogs Road improvements meetings at the County Courthouse, naturally.
Seriously, this is a trial run. I hope to be able to do this as an elected official. The newspaper and television stations can only do so much. I’m there and have to be, I might as well live blog so people [...]

While I certainly appreciate my

As required by Georgia’s presidential preference primary law (O.C.G.A. 21-2-193), the State Executive Committees for the Democratic and Republican parties have met and determined who will appear on the state’s February 5, 2008 presidential primary ballot.
According to officials at the Georgia Democratic Party, their Executive Committee met on October 27th and voted to place 8 [...]

From the Obama Campaign in Georgia:
Illinois Senator Barack Obama

The results on the balloting by the State Committee on the Fulton County Appeal are as follows.
102 yes votes (approving the Appeals Committee Report and Recommendations)
3 no votes
2 abstentions
There were 107 total votes which exceeds the 88 needed for a quorum of the State Committee so the reccomendations of the committee are approved and [...]