The Georgia File: An Extraordinary Win
It’s rare that a secretary of state is well known by voters in his or her own state. For one to have his or her name recognized across the country, well, that’s almost unheard of. You’d have to go back…
Brian Robinson
The Georgia File: Medicaid Expansion?
Stacey Abrams likes to say that Georgia has a Democratic majority that would consistently elect her party to statewide offices if not for “voter suppression.” While the suppression narrative is as fictitious as her Selena Montgomery novels, the 2020 elections…
The Georgia File: Changing Lives
No one in Katie Watson Speed’s family had gone to college, but her Rabun County public school teachers knew she could become a first-generation graduate if she got the right support. She had fortuitous timing. When she was in eighth…
The Georgia File: Moving the Chess Pieces
It went largely unnoticed outside of Georgia political circles when a Democratic candidate for state attorney general suddenly switched to the lieutenant governor’s race in January. Charlie Bailey took on incumbent Attorney General Chris Carr in the 2018 General Election,…
The Georgia File: Sweet Redemption
I didn’t choose to become a Georgia Bulldog. I arrived in this world with that tribal identification embedded in my DNA. Two weeks after I was born, a friend of my grandfather asked how I was doing. Granddaddy told him…
The Georgia File: Relationship Builder
Former top staffers for the late Johnny Isakson say their old boss didn’t have many hobbies besides work. “A lot of people play golf, a lot people like to go fishing. Johnny Isakson wanted to get up and go to…
State of Mind: The Last Word
The first column I ever wrote for Georgia Trend was put together hurriedly in the aftermath of 9/11, a rambling patchwork of observations about shopping for American flags and trying to regain some equilibrium. It ran in the October 2001…
The Georgia File: High-stakes Gamble
Casinos remain illegal in Georgia, but that hasn’t stopped some prominent politicians from engaging in high-stakes gambling with their careers. The card table is now set for the most highly anticipated and highly covered governor’s race in the entire country.…
The Georgia File: Vision Pays Off
With the Braves’ World Series win, Tim Lee would have figuratively died and gone to heaven if he hadn’t literally done so already. The former Cobb County Commission chair lived long enough to see his vision – Truist Park and…
The Georgia File: No. 1 Political Battleground
The fierce political competition between the parties to win Georgia brings some benefits with it. The Biden administration has every reason to give special attention to the state where voters gave him the narrowest victory margin in the country and…
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