(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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With additional reporting by Gloria Tatum. (APN) ATLANTA — For at least the last nine years, the City of Atlanta has continued to arrest people for violating seven laws contained in Chapter 106 (“Offenses and Miscellaneous Provisions”) that have the actual or potential effect of criminalizing homelessness, Atlanta Progressive News has learned. For some of the ordinances it […]
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