Tag: Gold Dome
Guns win, cable companies fail, and other Gold Dome action
Just to follow up on yesterday's posts regarding legislation facing the Crossover Day deadline at the General Assembly, here are a couple of recaps.
The longest day at the Gold Dome
Crossover Day at the state Capitol began a little more than seven hours ago, and we’re likely only about half-way through. The House just passed a contentious gun bill, but there are other pieces of legislation that have been flagged as controversial by virtue of the fact that the leadership has pre-emptively limited debate to an hour apiece.
Will Georgia allow guns in churches, bars, and college classrooms?
It’s the so-called Crossover Day at the state capitol, the thirtieth day of the forty-day General Assembly and the day by which bills must pass out of at least one chamber of the legislature into the other in order to be enacted during that year’s session.
GOP lawmakers don’t trust Fulton to run itself
When Republicans in the General Assembly redrew district lines in 2011 to give themselves majority control over local legislation in Fulton County, they made no secret of their intent to rein in a county government they believed was bloated, profligate, and unresponsive to the residents of its northern end—while brushing aside the racially fraught image of white politicians disciplining black elected officials.
Dedication of the Georgia Capitol
The dedication of Georgia’s new Capitol on July 4, 1889 was an exercise in mixed metaphors. The ceremony, a grand legislative procession from the lawmakers’ temporary digs in an opera house on Marietta Street to the gilded edifice six blocks away, was carefully staged to symbolize democracy as an institution.
Dedication of the Gold Dome
The dedication of Georgia’s new Capitol on July 4, 1889 was an exercise in mixed metaphors. The ceremony, a grand legislative procession from the lawmakers’ temporary digs in an opera house on Marietta Street to the gilded edifice six blocks away, was carefully staged to symbolize democracy as an institution.
Anti-anti-corruption under the Gold Dome
When the Center for Public Integrity and Global Integrity recently ranked Georgia last in the U.S. for anti-corruption laws, I felt a weird sense of relief. It was the same sense of relief I feel when, after being sick for a few days, I get a clear diagnosis from a doctor. Being sick is miserable. Being sick, but not knowing why, adds anxiety to the original injury.
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