(APN) ATLANTA — With Primary Elections for several statewide races coming up on May 22, 2018, Atlanta Progressive News sent questionnaires to all candidates for the Democratic Primary for for Georgia Public Service Commission District 3. The PSC District 3 seat is currently held by Republican Chuck Eaton, who is seeking reelection. Eaton has been a consistent supporter of […]
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With additional reporting by Matthew Charles Cardinale. (APN) ATLANTA — With bipartisan support, on March 21, 2018, the Georgia Legislature passed SB 355, which will sunset the Georgia Nuclear Energy Financing Act of 2009 for any future nuclear plants after January 2018. This means that in the unconscionable situation that should Georgia decide to pursue any additional nuclear […]
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(APN) ATLANTA — With the Primary Election for Georgia Secretary of State and other statewide races coming up on May 22, 2018, Atlanta Progressive News sent questionnaires to all candidates for the Democratic Primary. Former State Rep. Dee Dawkins-Haigler served in the State House from 2009 to 2017. In 2017, she ran for the Democratic nomination for State […]
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(APN) ATLANTA — Dr. Rita Jackson Samuels, a truly remarkable trailblazer and passionate advocate for civil rights and women’s rights, passed away on March 27, 2018 from congestive heart failure at the age of 72. She marched with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. many times, including the historic 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery. Samuels, inspired by the […]
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(APN) ATLANTA — With the Primary Election for Georgia Secretary of State and other statewide races coming up on May 22, 2018, Atlanta Progressive News sent questionnaires to all candidates for the Democratic Primary. R.J. Hadley, a Democratic Party activist and Chief Deputy Tax Commissioner for Rockdale County, is running for the Democratic nomination Secretary of State. Other […]
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With additional reporting by Matthew Charles Cardinale. (APN) ATLANTA — The State House is currently considering SB 403, to replace the current E-voting machines, which are direct recording, with ballot marking devices, allowing for a paper audit trail in Georgia elections by Jan. 01, 2024. On Feb. 28, 2018, the bill passed the State Senate nearly unanimously, in […]
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With additional reporting by Matthew Charles Cardinale (APN) ATLANTA — Both in Atlanta and nationwide, women and youth are taking the lead on gun reform following another mass school murder on February 14, 2018 that left seventeen students dead and nineteen injured at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. On Wednesday, February 21, 2018, thousands from […]
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With additional reporting by Matthew Charles Cardinale (APN) ATLANTA — A controversial bill to create a new City of Greenhaven, comprised of much of remaining unincorporated DeKalb County, did not pass out of the State House and thus did not “cross over” to the State Senate. The bill appears to be dead for this year; however, opponents of […]
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(APN) ATLANTA — Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp has settled with Stacey Hopkins, a Fulton County voter who last year, in 2017, was threatened with removal from the voter rolls after she moved from one address to another within Fulton County. The settlement, reached January 31, 2018, preserves the “Active” voter registration status of an estimated class of […]
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(APN) ATLANTA — The State’s Georgia Building Authority (GBA) cancelled a permit for three groups to hold a pro-cannabis, or pro-marijuana, rally, earlier this month, after more than three hundred people “RSVP’d” on Facebook. The problem with this–as most people who have organized an event using Facebook are likely well aware–is that, typically, few of the people who RSVP […]
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(APN) ATLANTA — The Georgia Public Service Commission (PSC) is facing a new lawsuit, while Georgia Power is facing a possible investigation – both in connection with challenges to the continued construction of new nuclear reactors 3 and 4 at Plant Vogtle. LAWSUIT AGAINST PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION Three groups–the Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC), Partnership for Southern Equity, […]
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Photograph by Gloria Tatum. Photograph shows Vogtle Units 1 and 2 alongside the cooling towers for planned Units 3 and 4. (APN) ATLANTA — Just in time for the New Year, the five Public Service Commissioners (PSC), publicly elected by ratepayers, gave Georgia Power pretty much everything they wanted, as usual. On December 21, 2017, with a unanimous five to […]
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(APN) ATLANTA — Georgia’s antiquated and oppressive ballot access laws–which set highly burdensome petition requirements for independent and minor party ballot candidates to get on the ballot in Georgia–are facing a legal challenge again, as advocates for voter choice continue to chip away at Georgia’s two party monopoly. While minor party and independent candidates continue to appeal to voters […]
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(APN) ATLANTA — It’s that special time of year when the Georgia Public Service Commission (PSC) has been hearing arguments about whether to cancel Plant Vogtle’s nuclear reactors 3 and 4, which are in various delayed states of construction; or, alternatively, whether to finish the project. The 17th Vogtle Construction Monitoring (VCM) hearing ran from Monday, December 11, to […]
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(APN) ATLANTA — The City of Atlanta has adopted two Mandatory Inclusionary Zoning (IZ) ordinances – one for the Beltline Overlay District and one for the Westside. The City Council unanimously approved the ordinances on Monday, November 20, 2017. While the term “Mandatory Inclusionary Zoning” might sound technical, it is actually quite significant news. Put simply, it is a requirement […]
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