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KSU E-voting Breach More Serious Than Public Was Informed

June 20, 2017 GLORIA TATUM One comment

(APN) ATLANTA — A recent interview with Logan Lamb, 29, the man who breached highly sensitive election data in Georgia, published by the Politico news service, reveals that the reported breach–involving the Kennesaw State University Center for Election Systems (KSU CES) website–is much more serious than the University previously stated. http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/06/14/will-the-georgia-special-election-get-hacked-215255 The so-called “hacker” was Internet security employee, […]

Worth County Sheriff’s Office Violates Students in Drug Search

June 16, 2017 GLORIA TATUM Leave a comment

(APN) ATLANTA — Sheriff Jeff Hobby’s office in Worth County near Albany, Georgia, inappropriately and apparently unlawfully searched almost 900 students at Worth County High School for illegal drugs. On April 14, 2017, some forty uniformed officers from five law enforcement agencies invaded the school and put the school on lockdown for four hours. Police dogs were used […]

PSC Comm’r. Moves for Georgia Power to Stop Collecting Nuclear Tax

June 11, 2017 GLORIA TATUM 2 comments

(APN) ATLANTA — Georgia Public Service Commissioner Lauren “Bubba” McDonald (District 4) filed a motion to give Georgia Power ratepayers a break by asking the company to suspend collecting the nuclear construction tax, or CWIP. But it had as much chance as a snowball in hell of being honored by the PSC or Georgia Power. The Commission voted to […]

In Court, City of Atlanta’s Case for Eminent Domain Fizzles

June 10, 2017 MATTHEW CHARLES CARDINALE 7 comments

(APN) ATLANTA — The City of Atlanta’s case for seizing the home of Tanya Washington, of Atlanta’s Peoplestown neighborhood, by eminent domain fell apart in court on Tuesday, June 06, 2017. Fulton County Superior Court Judge Craig Schwall heard the case. Some thirty activists from the community came to participate in a press conference before the hearing, as well […]

Atlanta Mayor, Council Stall on Decriminalization of Cannabis

June 3, 2017 GLORIA TATUM 3 comments

With additional reporting by Matthew Charles Cardinale (APN) ATLANTA — Facing pressure from Mayor of Atlanta Kasim Reed, Central Atlanta Progress, and other organizations, the City Council of Atlanta has stalled on legislation that Councilman Kwanza Hall (District 2), a Mayoral candidate, introduced nearly three months ago, to lower the municipal penalties to a fine and eliminate the possibility […]

BREAKING: New Lawsuit Filed Over Georgia E-Voting

May 26, 2017 MATTHEW CHARLES CARDINALE 7 comments

(APN) ATLANTA — Two Georgia voters and a national advocacy organization filed a new lawsuit challenging Georgia’s electronic voting regime on Friday, May 26, 2017. The Complaint for Declaratory and Injunctive Relief and Writ of Mandamus was filed in Fulton County Superior Court. The plaintiffs have also filed for an emergency injunction, for which an emergency hearing has […]

Eight Arrested at Georgia Board of Regents Meeting over Undocumented Student Ban

May 21, 2017 PILAR VERDES Leave a comment

(APN) ATLANTA — On Tuesday, May 15, 2017, eight activists including pastors, students, teachers, artists, and retired workers were arrested after disrupting a Georgia Board of Regents public hearing, where they demanded an end to banning undocumented students from enrolling in public universities in Georgia. The eight community members arrested are: Rev. Jonathan Rogers, Pastor at UUCA; Laura Emiko […]

Clarkston Rethinks its Relationship with ICE, Passes Non-detainer Policy

May 18, 2017 GLORIA TATUM One comment

(APN) CLARKSTON — The City Council of Clarkston, Georgia, has passed a non-detainer policy on May 02, 2017 that prohibits the federal agency Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) from arresting people in Clarkston with a “detainer request” or an “administrative immigration warrant.” ICE must obtain a legal judicial warrant and show probable cause that authorizes an individual’s arrest and […]

Health Care Protests Held in Atlanta after TrumpCare Passes U.S. House

May 16, 2017 GLORIA TATUM Leave a comment

(APN) ATLANTA — People have organized and held numerous protests throughout Metro Atlanta since the U.S. House passed the American Health Care Act (AHCA or “TrumpCare”), an Orwellian-named bill that would gut numerous protections of the Affordable Care Act (“ObamaCare”). On April 27, 2017, the U.S. House narrowly passed the AHCA, after President Donald Trump campaigned on a promise […]

Ratepayers Push Vogtle Cancellation at PSC Nuclear Hearing, VCM 16 (UPDATE 1)

May 15, 2017 GLORIA TATUM 4 comments

(APN) ATLANTA — On Thursday, May 11, 2017, ratepayers packed the sixteenth Vogtle Construction Monitoring (VCM) hearing, demanding that the Georgia Public Service Commission and Southern Company cancel their plans to complete two new nuclear reactors at Plant Vogtle. This VCM report covers the period between July 01, 2016 and December 31, 2016. Atlanta Progressive News has covered […]

20 Computer Experts Issue Letter to Kemp on E-Voting Unreliability

May 2, 2017 GLORIA TATUM 3 comments

With additional reporting by Matthew Charles Cardinale (APN) ATLANTA — On March 14, 2017, some twenty computer experts from across the U.S. sent a letter to Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp, urging Kemp to immediately move to verifiable elections, after approximately sixteen years of faith based E-voting with no paper record in the State of Georgia. https://www.verifiedvoting.org/verified-voting-letter-to-georgia-secretary-of-state-brian-kemp/ […]

Activists Seek Emergency PSC Hearing to Reconsider Vogtle Reactors 3, 4

April 24, 2017 GLORIA TATUM One comment

(APN) ATLANTA — On Tuesday, April 18, 2017, Glenn Carroll, Director of Nuclear Watch South (NWS), filed a request for an emergency public hearing with the Georgia Public Service Commission (PSC) to seek relief for ratepayers from the Construction Work in Progress (CWIP) tax on customers’ electric bills. Georgia Power ratepayers have been paying in advance for the construction […]

Eleby Won’t Be Railroaded for I-85 Collapse, Attorneys Insist

April 16, 2017 GLORIA TATUM 2 comments

(APN) ATLANTA — Basil Eleby, 40, the homeless man who is accused of starting a fire that caused a portion of Interstate 85 to collapse in Atlanta, has some of the best legal minds defending him plus a growing coalition of 25 diverse community and civil rights organizations that have raised concerns about his case. Almost immediately after the […]

Vogtle’s Nuclear Expansion in Question after Westinghouse Bankruptcy Filing

April 5, 2017 GLORIA TATUM 5 comments

(APN) ATLANTA — Westinghouse Electric Corporation, the designer and builder of the AP1000 nuclear reactors under construction in Georgia and South Carolina, has filed for Chapter 11 reorganization bankruptcy, putting the future of the nuclear power industry in jeopardy. Clean energy advocates hope this bankruptcy will be a wooden stake in the heart of the so-called “nuclear renaissance” that […]

State Sen. Steen Miles, 1946-2017, !Presente!

April 4, 2017 MATTHEW CHARLES CARDINALE Leave a comment

(APN) ATLANTA — Former State Sen. Ollisteen “Steen” Miles (D-Decatur), 70, who ran for U.S. Senate in 2014 and was an award-winning journalist with WXIA Channel 11 television news, passed away on Wednesday, March 29, 2017. Sen. Miles served in the Georgia State Senate from 2005 to 2007. “I think she got in and she had been a […]

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