To explain his absence in the days following the shooting by police of Kathyrn Johnston, Atlanta Police Chief Richard Pennington told reporters that he was out of town for Thanksgiving and unable to get a flight back to Atlanta. Today’s…
From today’s Washington Post: “The Iraq Study Group, which wrapped up eight months of deliberations yesterday, has reached a consensus and will call for a major withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq, shifting the U.S. role from combat to support…
One week after Atlanta Police killed 88/92-year-old Kathryn Johnston, tried to justify it with bogus public statements, and possibly even asked an informant to lie on their behalf, Ms. Shirley Franklin of Atlanta remembered that she’s Mayor. “There is no…
One week after 88-year-old Kathryn Johnston was gunned down in her home by Atlanta Police under mysterious circumstances, Mayor Franklin has finally issued a statement:’ “I certainly share the concern that all of us have about the loss of Ms.…
In newspaper speak, to “bury a lede” is to fail to place the most important part of a news story at the beginning. In today’s AJC, the story “Slain woman’s family: ‘We just want to see the truth’” hides its…
At 4 a.m. Saturday morning, New York police shot and killed Sean Bell and wounded two of his friends. We know how many shots police fired (50). We know that the officers involved likely violated police policy, first by firing…
“Back in the 1980s, Daniel Ortega was depicted by the Reagan and Bush administrations as a threat to freedom in the United States. On the American boogeyman scale, he was somewhere between Hugo Chavez and Saddam Hussein.” Read the rest…
I wrote this week’s cover story in Creative Loafing. It’s called “Atlanta’s 11 Least Influential People.” Among the those profiled, a man who got fined after someone else broke his septic line, Atlanta residents who have tried for three years…
Behold, State Supreme Court Carol Hunstein’s spectacularly mean ad attacking her opponent, Mike Wiggins. If you can’t see the image above, click here. I know I shouldn’t laugh, but I can’t help it.
Will Bobafred and Tony please e-mail me so I can send them their reward money. You’ve both won.
