Yup…it’s the baggy pants thing.
Edna Jackson says the issue is one that her constituents complain about regularly. Van Johnson and Clifton Jones Jr., too. So as the Savannah City Council is about to move forward with one of its top priorities - a parental-responsibilities ordinance - a majority of the council is ready to consider [...]

Gwinnett’s police chief Charles Walters was suspended for 10 days, and forced to apologize to the Commissioners. Apparently the Chief was upset about…
…“inaccurate information that had appeared in various media forms,” which he believed caused “serious damage” to employee morale within the police department.
“During this meeting, I presented factual information stating the true state [...]

Gwinnett School Superintendent Alvin Wilbanks is well respected by his peers but a recent comment he made has some parents, teachers, and the NAACP up in arms:
The comments in question occurred last week during a presentation about the disproportionate discipline of minority students in Gwinnett.
An administrator said the issue is a problem for school districts [...]

The money isn’t coming.
Gov. Sonny Perdue said Tuesday that homeowner tax grants have helped fatten local government coffers but have been “ineffective” in driving Georgia’s property taxes down.
Perdue has frozen the $428 million in grants that had been set to go out this year as the state scrambles to close a budget shortfall. He said [...]

He’s talking about Obama.
Reichert, who turned 60 this week, said he believed that Obama had a chance to carry Georgia not only because of high black turnout, but because he believed that enough white Georgians his age saw in Obama the “validation” of the changes that they had helped bring about in their own lives.
The [...]

Will Kasim Reed be the next mayor? What about Clark Howard, isn’t he running?
Also, from the tipline:
Steve Brodie will announce on 9-2 that he is running again for City Council, against Ann Fauver (who he lost to last election by 4 votes), on a position of fiscal responsibility and to clean up the petty [...]

Two days after Sheriff Victor Hill’s re-election bid was rejected by voters, Clayton County again asked a federal court to restrain him, and replace him.
The sheriff is indifferent to civil rights and “the law in general,” county attorneys allege, and he is beyond the control of the county government that has to pay for his [...]

One of the Kroger stores in Peachtree City, Georgia is being renovated.  As part of the upgrades, the store wanted to change its roof color from green to black.   The Peachtree City Planning Commission is having none of it. 
You just have to love these “Republican” bedroom communities who seem to forget all about private [...]

Clayton County voters took steps to clean up their County’s image on August 5 by tossing out their, shall we say, troublesome D.A and Sheriff. Now the folks in Lithonia are taking some steps of their own:
Organizers of a recall effort against Lithonia Mayor Joyce McKibben say they have gathered enough signatures to force a [...]

I know enough about local government to know that, in fact, city employees are sometimes less than candid on issues. Typically though, I think this is done not to mislead, but to direct the conversation and steer the conversation away from rabbit holes that some elected people love to explore.
That may be the case [...]

The people of Clayton County got it right tonight.  Tossing Walking Small and Jewel Scott in the same night.  Well done!
Kudos also to Charles Bannister.  Winning reelection in a tough environment for incumbents is quite an accomplishment.

Congrats to Burrell Ellis in Dekalb County who withstood Stan Watson’s strong challenge.
In Gwinnett, Charles Bannister is winning, though his opponent won’t concede yet.

Clayton County School Board ethics are being questioned according to a report being prepared related to accreditation.
Clayton County school board members tried to intimidate school staff to get jobs for their relatives and friends, according to a newly completed report that school officials hope will save the district’s accreditation.
The report, submitted this week to a [...]

Several people have noted in the comments something I did not even pay attention to (my apologies).
The mailer into the black community did not come from Stan’s campaign committee.
Nonetheless, I don’t think that matters. Why? Because I have it on good authority that Watson knew about the flier, had no problems with the flier, [...]

Watson sent out the race baiting flier to the black community that I wrote about below. While that flier was going out in the black community, this one was going out in the white community:

Here is the reverse of the flier.
So, one message to the black community that is anti-white and a different message [...]