After originally threatening to have a stand off at the Atlanta Airport and potentially get arrested in front of his family, Rep. Tim Bearden told the Associated Press by telephone Tuesday morning, “There will be no reason for any confrontation at the airport.”
Instead, Bearden said he will file a lawsuit in federal court to prevent [...]

State Rep. Tim Bearden plans to test Georgia’s newly enacted gun laws, and apparently the patience of the officials at Hartsfield-Jackson:

“I have a permit, and I have family I have to pick up at the airport tomorrow [Tuesday],” Bearden told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Monday. “I’ll have one [a concealed weapon] with me at all [...]

UPDATED:  The Tip Line tells us that Griffin Judicial Circuit District Attorney Scott Ballard has also joined the boycott of the Fayette Citizen’s blog debate.   Stay Strong, Candidates.  Stay Strong.
 All four candidates for Fayette County Sheriff, and five of seven candidates for the Fayette County School Board, have refused an invitation from the Fayette Citizen to participate in [...]

Just into the Rogue109 command center come unconfirmed tips from three four five people that Michael Rothenberg plans to end his campaign for Judge Gail Flake’s seat in the Superior Court of DeKalb County sometime next week.
Evidently, he is already staking a claim on a 2010 run for another seat in that court. He’ll [...]

UPDATE!!!! According to Creative Loafing’s Scott Henry, the Atlanta City Council has just passed a slasher of an amended 2009 budget! One that will eliminate the need to raise taxes. Wow! Watch CL’s Fresh Loaf blog throughout the day for up-to-the-minute news. Duck, flying pigs overhead! 
While the City of Atlanta prepares to up our property [...]

Because of the ongoing incompetence in Atlanta, some in Buckhead want to de-annex and reincorporate as the City of Buckhead.

“It will bankrupt Atlanta,” said Sam Massell, president of the Buckhead Coalition, a business and community group, and a former Atlanta mayor.
Massell and others say talk of creating a city of Buckhead is not a new [...]

Some questions are arising about the past of a candidate for District Attorney in the Towaliga Judicial Circuit (Butts, Lamar and Monroe counties). George Hartwig, who hopes to unseat Richard Milam, spent some time in Florida in 2002 as a Captain in the Charlotte County (FL) Sheriffs Department.
The information posted on this website, gives [...]

AJC.com puts… stand-up comedy video clips on their homepage. WTF is up with that? Slow news day? Boring political news year? Must be.

From Mike Jacobs:
The annual Taste of Brookhaven event is tomorrow, Saturday, June 14, from 6:00 to 10:00 p.m. on the Oglethorpe University campus. Organized by the Brookhaven Arts Alliance, this is a great event every year. Tickets are $40 in advance and $50 at the door. Please visit the event website for [...]

Boy, if anything is more in need of some good old-fashioned inspiration these days, it would be Republicans. As I was trained-up long ago in the ways of impartiality and journalistic neutrality, I went to hear Ralph Reed talk at the Atlanta Press Club about his new novel, Dark Horse, and all the “new politics” [...]

Matt Towery likes Ralph Reed’s new novel, Dark Horse. I’ve yet to read it, but I will likely add it to the stack. And will report back here, of course. Again, Reed sells and signs and raps about his new book tonight at the APC.
Say what you feel you need to about Towery, or [...]

That’s a lot of fired lawyers.
In what one local defense attorney has termed the “Friday Morning Massacre,” 21 staff members of the Atlanta and Stone Mountain Conflict Defender Office—including 17 attorneys—were notified that, effective June 30, they will no longer have jobs.
Georgia Public Defender Standards Council Director Mack Crawford confirmed that the attorneys, who represent [...]

James Bell, a community activist in Douglas County that instrumental in defeating a SPLOST proposal last year, was arrested on Monday for removing campaign signs from a beautification area known as the “Dogwood Strip,” which is owned by Norfolk Southern.
Bell says that he had asked candidates not to put signs in this particular location, but [...]

I quick round-up of Atlanta’s dullest, PR flak-generated, un-happening events and actions for the day:
Commercial Real Estate Executive Roundup. Hot, hot, hot.  Not.
Really Boring Lisa Borders Who Will Never Beat Mary Norwood for Mayor Next Year on the about time resignation of the City’s CFO.
Old Quincy Jones gums with an always-babbling Monica Kaufman Pearson Kaufman.
A [...]

The DOT’s HERO trucks will give you free gas.
With gasoline in many parts of the Atlanta area topping $4 a gallon, the DOT roadside assistance crews are seeing a spike in the number of motorists who run out of fuel.
“The majority of them probably figured they could make it to an exit,” Conley said. “Due [...]