Tag: Roy Barnes
Did Leo Frank kill Mary Phagan? 106 years later, we might finally find out for sure.
In early may, Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard announced that he will reopen one of the most notorious criminal proceedings in American history: the trial of National Pencil Company superintendent Leo M. Frank for the murder of child laborer Mary Phagan.
Friends in the Hall: How lobbyists use influence to help their clients
“You can’t name me a profession that doesn’t have a lobbyist, from the church house, to the house of prostitutes."
Johnny Isakson appears to scare off all potential challengers
They’d settle for an old dog, a new dog, even a Blue Dog, but so far Georgia Democrats don’t have any dog in the fight for U.S. Senate.
Tyrone Brooks sentenced to federal prison for a year and a day
After a weeklong sentencing hearing, a judge orders the civil rights leader behind bars for misuse of nonprofit donations.
Éminences grises: 12 trailblazers who helped shape Atlanta
Including Roy Barnes, Shirley Franklin, Sam Massell, and more
Roy Barnes on the Confederate flag and where the South needs to go from here
Barnes, a throwback to Georgia’s once mighty but now dismantled Democratic machine, was eager to talk about the South’s contradictions. And, as the governor who oversaw the revamp of Georgia’s state flag back in 2001—which removed the battle emblem and arguably cost him reelection in 2002—few are more uniquely qualified.
Red state rising: The last days of Georgia’s two-party system
Georgia politics in the 1990s was like a murky twilight zone with two galaxies spinning away from each other. On one side were the remains of the old Solid Democratic South, still dominant at the beginning of the decade but best glimpsed in ghosts and caricature-like light from vanished stars. On the other side: the Solid Republican South, gathering mass and best represented by Newt Gingrich.
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