Political Notes

It’s been a long run, but it’s time we sat back and took a break. Few states have experienced quite as much booming prosperity as Georgia did during the 1990s, when development in the Metro Atlanta area exploded and the…

Thompson backer: Another Republican presidential candidate, Fred Thompson, has named state Sen. Chip Rogers (R-Woodstock) executive director and communications director for his campaign efforts in Georgia. Steve Croy, head of Croy Realty Group, is finance chairman in Georgia for the…

A couple of years ago state Sen. Eric Johnson (R-Savannah) was able to put a constitutional amendment on the ballot to protect the right to hunt and fish in perpetuity. Johnson said it was necessary to make this change in…

October 2007: Political Roundup

If you pay attention to Georgia politics at all, you’ve probably heard an earful by now about House Speaker Glenn Richardson’s proposal to radically revise the state’s tax system (and if you haven’t heard about it, Richardson will be more…

Political Roundup: September 2007

If political leaders in Fulton and DeKalb won’t make the governance changes that Grady Memorial Hospital needs, then the General Assembly should put it under control of a state authority.

Help for Davis: Southern Poly-technic President Lisa Rossbacher was named interim chief academic officer for the University System until a permanent choice can be selected. She replaced Beheruz Sethna, who returned to his fulltime job as president of the University…

Some Georgia political figures who were on top of the world mere months ago – including Saxby Chambliss, Shirley Franklin and Sonny Perdue – are finding that things have changed.

New tourism chief: Charlie Gatlin, deputy commissioner and a longtime employee of the Department of Economic Development, will also take over the department’s tourism division, replacing former tourism director Dan Rowe. Gatlin, who joined the department in 1990, will continue…