by gapeachpitd | Feb 1, 2023 | Criminal Justice, Metro Atlanta
This article first appeared in Political Peach News The growing tensions around the planned Atlanta police training facility have sadly escalated resulting in the death of a protestor, the wounding of a state patrolman, and property damage in downtown Atlanta. This...
by gapeachpitd | Feb 1, 2023 | Economy, NE Georgia
Georgians get their electricity in one of three ways. Most receive electricity from the investor-owned utility, Georgia Power which is regulated by the Public Service Commission. Others are served by a utility that is owned and operated by a municipality, for example,...
by gapeachpitd | Jan 16, 2023 | Economy, Metro Atlanta, Middle Georgia, NE Georgia, NW Georgia
This article first appeared in Political Peach News Almost half a century ago, when I was a local news reporter for the Great Speckled Bird, we frequently wrote scathing news articles about Georgia Power and the Public Service Commission (PSC). Sadly, the story...
by gapeachpitd | Sep 2, 2022 | Economy, Environment, SE Georgia/Coastal Georgia, Voting
Following the cascade of Supreme Court decisions, stripping away federally protected rights from bodily autonomy to proving one’s innocence, a group of Black voters from Georgia took a Voting Rights Act case all the way to SCOTUS and won. “I was stunned,” Brionté...
by gapeachpitd | Aug 25, 2022 | Criminal Justice, Metro Atlanta, Middle Georgia, Voting
When Shaun Smith, founder of the Black Push organization, whose core mission is advocacy for society’s most vulnerable, with a focus on ex-offenders, talks about becoming a minister, he speaks at once of a vocation he loves and of an internal conflict born from a life...
