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Voting

The PSC Election and Missing Chatham County Ballots

I like to vote absentee ballot when I can. Georgia has no-excuse absentee voting, which means you don’t have a doctor’s permission slip or special circumstances to vote absentee. In past elections, absentee ballots kept us from having to stand in long lines, and also helped keep those lines from being even longer. During COVID, […]

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Political

No Kings: Inflatable costumes and Georgia anti-mask laws

Portland showed us the way in how to fight against the lawlessness that now characterizes ICE and related federal activities: the Portland frog. More specifically, the wearing of inflatable costumes depicting a frog, unicorn, or other whimsical character. Who can forget the image of Kristi Noem on top of the federal building, sternly looking down…at […]

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Legal, Laws, and Regs People Political

Don’t condemn the regular police in Chicago and Portland

Folks were upset when Illinois State Police showed up at an ICE protest in Chicago. Some questioned why Pritzker would do so. Were the state police now siding with ICE? The answer to why the ISP showed up can be found in federal judge’s ruling about the federalization of Oregon National Guard in Portland. In […]

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Government Health Insurance Healthcare

Dear Buddy Carter: Health Care Premium subsidies help people

Buddy Carter, why do you persist in sending lies in your Congressional newsletter? Isn’t the purpose of these newsletters to inform rather than misinform? Your recent newsletter takes aim at Democrats during the shutdown. You claim that Democrats are keeping the government shutdown in order to provide subsidies for healthcare for undocumented migrants. You wrote: […]

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Government

The best outcome for this shutdown tug of war: the end of the filibuster

Have you ever played tug of war? If so, you recognize what’s happening in Congress right now. Republicans pulling, Democrats pulling, and here we are: stuck in the middle, again. Shutdowns for the government are never a good thing. Our country should have eliminated the possibility a long time ago. However, this particular shutdown is […]