Atlanta Progressive News

(APN) ATLANTA — The Atlanta Progressive News Board of Directors would like to announce its endorsement for Governor as part of its first round of APN Endorsements for 2010: David Poythress. POYTHRESS APN conducted full-length interviews with several statewide candidates in Democratic Primaries, including all five candidates running for Secretary of State and two running for School Superintendent, in addition […]

(APN) ATLANTA — Buzz Brockway, 43, has been ruffling the feathers of Georgia’s political establishment for years as a blogger and commentator on local, statewide, and national politics. This year, though, he is campaigning to be a State House representative for House District 101 in Lawrenceville, Georgia. Atlanta Progressive News spoke with Brockway and other candidates for State House about […]

(APN) ATLANTA — Some of the candidates in the Democratic Primary for Georgia Secretary of State have shifted towards supporting a paper trail to supplement electronic voting over the course of the campaign this year. Atlanta Progressive News is the only news organization to have conducted full-length interviews with all five candidates in the Democratic Primary, including State Sen. Gail […]

(APN) ATLANTA — One of the few progressive champions in elected office in the Greater Metro Atlanta area, State Sen. Vincent Fort, is facing a challenge by political newcomer Graham Balch, whose campaign is being funded by Atlanta’s downtown business elite. State Sen. Fort has consistently been one of the few elected officials willing to speak up against the business […]

(APN) ATLANTA — City Attorneys for the City of Atlanta and various Council Members filed an Answer as well as a Motion to Dismiss in response to the lawsuit brought by Atlanta Progressive News’s News Editor–the present writer–which alleged that a secret vote at the February 2010 Retreat violated the Georgia Open Meetings Act. In the Motion to Dismiss, three […]

This article originally appeared on the Inter-Press Service website at http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=52005. NEW ORLEANS, Jun 30, 2010 (IPS) – With the U.S .government and oil giant British Petroleum under fire for their handling of the more than two-month-old Gulf Coast oil spill disaster, environmental and community activists across the country are taking matters into their own hands. In New Orleans, a […]

APN Chat with Georganna Sinkfield, Candidate for Secretary of State By Matthew Cardinale, News Editor, The Atlanta Progressive News (June 18, 2010) (APN) ATLANTA — In our continuing coverage of the 2010 Statewide and Congressional Elections, we sat down with State Rep. Georganna Sinkfield, who is running for Secretary of State of Georgia. In 2006, Gail Buckner won the the […]

(APN) ATLANTA — Independent candidate Mary Norwood sought Injunctive Relief from Fulton County Superior Court in a lawsuit filed Tuesday, June 22, 2010, after Fulton County Chairman John Eaves’s reelection campaign questioned the petition forms Norwood has used to gain some 9,000 signatures in her effort to be listed on the General Election ballot as an Independent. Judge Jerry Baxter […]

(APN) ATLANTA — The Metro Atlanta Task Force for the Homeless filed a response and countersuit yesterday in Fulton County Superior Court alleging, among other things, that the City of Atlanta, Central Atlanta Progress, and developer Manny Fialkow engaged in racketeering in their concerted effort to sabotage the Task Force. “The Conspirators have sought to drive the Task Force out […]

(APN) ATLANTA — In our continuing coverage of the 2010 Statewide and Congressional Elections, we sat down with Gary Horlacher, 53, who is running for Secretary of State of Georgia. In 2006, Gail Buckner won the the Democratic nomination and she is again running for the position. Buckner ultimately lost to Republican Karen Handel in 2006. Handel is now running […]

(APN) ATLANTA — In our continuing coverage of the 2010 Statewide and Congressional Elections, we sat down with Michael Mills, who is running for Secretary of State of Georgia. In 2006, Gail Buckner won the the Democratic nomination and she is again running for the position. Buckner ultimately lost to Republican Karen Handel in 2006. Handel is now running for […]

(APN) ATLANTA — Six Members of the City Council of Atlanta who failed to disclose their vote in the unrecorded, secret poll on public comment, were served, by way of their attorneys, with a first set of interrogatories, or questions which they are required to answer, on Monday, June 07, 2010. The six Members who received the interrogatories are Carla […]

(APN) ATLANTA — In our continuing coverage of statewide and Congressional elections, we sat down with US Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA), who is running for reelection for Georgia’s fourth Congressional district. Johnson won the seat in 2006 in a Democratic Primary Run-off with former US Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-GA). APN endorsed McKinney in that race. McKinney went on to be […]

(APN) ATLANTA — Fulton County Superior Court Judge Craig Schwall expressed concern today over mounting evidence that the City of Atlanta, Central Atlanta Progress, and Manny Fialkow engaged in an improper conspiracy to deprive the Metro Atlanta Task Force for the Homeless of funding so that Fialkow could obtain the building. Schwall presided over the hearing which was supposed to […]

(APN) ATLANTA — In our continuing coverage of the 2010 elections, Atlanta Progressive News sat down with Keisha Waites, 37, a candidate for Fulton County Commission Distict 6, the seat being vacated by Nancy Boxill. Thus far, APN has interviewed Gubernatorial candidate David Poythress; Secretary of State (SOS) candidates Angela Moore, Gail Buckner, and Michael Mills [Mills interview coming soon]; […]