HBCU Study Committee: Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan named State Sen. Sonya Halpern (D-Atlanta) to chair a new Interim Legislative Study Committee on Excellence, Innovation and Technology at Historically Black Colleges and Universities. The group will look at ways the state…
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…
On to November: Having trounced his Republican primary opponent, former U.S. Sen. David Perdue, Gov. Brian Kemp now faces Democrat Stacey Abrams in the November general election in a rematch of the 2018 gubernatorial contest. Abrams had no opposition in…
In Memoriam: Former Atlanta Mayor and Buckhead Coalition President Sam Massell, who led the city from 1970 to 1974, died in March at age 94. He was the city’s first Jewish mayor and is credited with guiding the changeover from…
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,…
It is true that we have been on an increasingly competitive path for the last decade thanks to shifting demographics, with gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams’ near-win in 2018 followed by President Joe Biden’s victory in the state in 2020 and…
Greg Bluestein may be the hardest working man in Georgia media. You’ll see his byline in the AJC – from the front page to the Morning Jolt newsletter and Political Insider blog – hear his voice as host of the…
In Memoriam: Georgia’s former U.S. Sen. Johnny Isakson, a lifelong Republican who died in December at the age of 76, is remembered by friends and colleagues from both parties as a man of integrity and accomplishment. Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp…
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…
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.…
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