One in four Georgians under supervised felony probation now qualify for early release from probation under a new reform measure signed into law on Monday. The measure is expected to save Georgia $34 million a ...
A veteran Atlanta attorney and voting rights activist will join the nonpartisan voter-registration group The New Georgia Project, later this month as its first chief legal officer, Atlanta Civic Circle has learned. “While I do ...
It was a single question about continuing a penny sales tax in his rural southwest Georgia county, but voter Stancil Tootle will never know if his answer was what he intended. Tootle is blind, and ...
Alan Abramowitz Title: Professor of Political Science Organization: Emory University When local and national media needed to make sense of the most recent election season — which at times seemed senseless and mostly contentious — ...
Shelby Swan Age: 27 Occupation: Marketing Residence: Cobb County Community work: Works with The People’s Uprising, a metro Atlanta coalition of organizers as well as ProtectTheVoteGa, a coalition of grassroots organizations in Georgia fighting to ...
While Georgia lawmakers were enacting what some would call a regressive voting law last month, Virginia was creating landmark voting measures. Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam restored voting rights to ex-felons, overriding the state’s constitutional mandate ...
Stella Silva-Garcia Age: 47 Occupation: Stay-at-home mom and co-owner of an information technology firm. Family: She and her husband have two sons, 22, and 9. Residence: Alpharetta Community work: No Safe Seats, a community group ...
Alfred “Shivy” Brooks Age: 37 Occupation: Teaches economics, personal finance, and government at Charles Drew High School in Clayton County. Residence: East Atlanta Community work: Founded Teachers for Good Trouble. Member of NAACP Atlanta and ...
Coca-Cola CEO James Quincey reiterated his company’s support to protect voting rights in Georgia at the company’s virtual annual meeting Tuesday morning. The company had received “several questions” on the company’s position on voting rights. ...
Eldredge Washington Age: 31 Occupation: Entrepreneur, podcaster, and producer Residence: Atlanta’s West End Community work: Founder and executive director of Motivated Adults Developing Excellence (MADE). Protesting police killings. Saving long-forgotten black graves from the crush ...
