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Gov. Sonny Perdue will deliver his annual “State of the State” address to the Georgia General Assembly on Wednesday at 11 a.m. in House chambers.

It will be Perdue’s final State of the State as governor. Topics are expected to include education, transportation, the budget, and healthcare reform.
Check back with Atlanta Progressive News and Atlanta Progressive [...]

Posted under 2010, Georgia General Assembly, Georgia legislature, House, Sonny Perdue, State of the State

Members of the Georgia House elected a new speaker and speaker pro tem on the first full day of the 2010 session of the Georgia General Assembly on Monday.

New Speaker David Ralston (R-Blue Ridge) - Photo by House Communications

For speaker, lawmakers voted for Blue Ridge Republican David Ralston, a 17-year veteran of the Assembly, by [...]

Posted under Calvin Smyre, David Ralston, Georgia General Assembly, Georgia House, Georgia legislature, Glenn Richardson, Jan Jones, Kathy Ashe, speaker of the house, speaker pro tem

Now on APN you can read our latest story about what Kasim Reed had to say in his inaugural address after taking the oath of office and becoming the 59th mayor of Atlanta on Monday.
But swearing in a new mayor wasn’t the only piece of business Monday at the Atlanta Civic Center. Georgia Supreme Court [...]

Posted under Andrew Young, Atlanta City Council, Atlanta Municipal Court, Ceasar Mitchell, City Hall, Constance C. Russell, Fulton County Superior Court, Georgia Supreme Court, Kasim Reed, Marvin Arrington, Mayoral race 2009, Robert Benham, Sam Massell, Shirley Franklin, mayor, president

 
by Juan Cole
Published on Monday, January 4, 2010 by Informed
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SUMMARY:  “So, the US is killing schoolchildren far too often,
enraging the Afghan public. It has provoked a student
protest movement against it in Jalalabad and Kabul. Its
informants are double agents. Its supposed partner, the
Afghan army, mostly doesn’t actually exist and couldn’t
be depended on to show up to [...]

Posted under "War on terror", Afghanistan, International, Peace, War

Mayor Kasim Reed announced promotions and lateral reassignments within the Atlanta Police Department (APD) during his first press conference as mayor at City Hall on Tuesday.
“We hope that it will improve the morale,” Acting Chief George Turner said of the changes.

Acting Chief Turner (center) speaks while Mayor Reed (right) looks on. - Photo by Jonathan Springston, [...]

Posted under Atlanta City Council, Atlanta Police Department, Eagle, George Turner, Homelessness, Kasim Reed, Michael Julian Bond, crime, panhandling, press conference

Kasim Reed officially became mayor of Atlanta Monday during a two hour event at the Civic Center. Check back with Atlanta Progressive News for a full story. Below is the text of the mayor’s inaugural address. Read it and share your thoughts in the comment section below.

ATLANTA: A CITY ON A HILL
Thank you for [...]

Posted under City of Atlanta, Inauguration, Kasim Reed, Mayoral race 2009, mayor

Now on IPS, you can read a story about the South’s fleet of aging coal-fired plants, including Macon’s Plant Scherer, the dirtiest of all the nation’s coal plants.
You’ll hear from local activists who weigh in on what the EPA’s Dec. 7 decision to crack down on greenhouse emissions means for the future of coal plants [...]

Posted under Allied Energy Services, Altamaha Riverkeeper, Ben Hill County, Coal power, Dean Alford, Environment, Fall-line Alliance for a Clean Environment, Fitzgerald, Georgia, Georgians For Smart Energy, Ochs Center for Metropolitan Studies, Power4Georgians, Sandersville, Satilla Riverkeeper, South, Washington County, coal-fired plants

The Atlanta Independent School System (AISS) agreed this week to implement a number of improvements at its alternative school as part of a settlement of a federal lawsuit brought last year by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the ACLU of Georgia.

Atlanta's Forrest Hill Academy, pictured here in Fall 2008. - Photo by Jonathan [...]

Posted under ACLU Racial Justice Program, ACLU of Georgia, American Civil Liberties Union, Atlanta Independent School System, Atlanta Public Schools, Community Education Partners, Education, Forrest Hill Academy, Reggie Shuford, Stephen Alford, lawsuit, settlement

Vice President Joe Biden announced the launch of $7.2 billion in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funds for a broadband grant and loan program during an appearance Thursday in Dawsonville, Ga. with Gov. Sonny Perdue.
There will be $2 billion made available on a rolling basis over the next 75 days to bring high-speed Internet [...]

Posted under American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Barack Obama, Department of Agriculture, Department of Commerce, Economy, Federal budget, Georgia, Impulse Manufacturing, Joe Biden, Sonny Perdue, broadband, innovation, rural areas, science, technology