Month: September 2011

  • We will never forget

    Photo Credit: Photo by Denise GouldThe “Tribute in Light” memorial is in remembrance of the events of Sept. 11 in honor of the citizens who lost their lives in the World Trade Center attacks. The two towers of light are composed of two banks of high wattage spotlights that point straight up from a lot…

  • Deal: 9/11 ‘reminds us as Americans of our common identity’

    ATLANTA — Americans must “remember those lessons so that together we might create a nation worthy of those great Americans who were lost,” Ga. Gov. Nathan Deal said Friday. “Sept. 11, 2001 is a date that invokes feelings of loss, but it also reminds us as Americans of our common identity, of how we must continue to…

  • Point-Counterpoint: President Obama’s jobs speech

    ATLANTA — President Obama on Thursday delivered his much-anticipated speech on the economy. Not surprisingly, reaction to the speech was split along party lines. U.S. Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga. said Obama “delivered a great speech,” saying the president “reached the soul of America and acknowledged the pain and struggles so many of us are facing” and “offered…

  • Isakson: Obama speech was ‘more of the same in terms’

    U.S. Senator Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., offered the following statement in response to President Obama’s Thursday evening speech. “The president’s speech on job creation was really more of the same in terms of the sum of the recommendations he has made over past weeks. There were some good new things included in his plan, including the…

  • Price: ‘We must offer relief to the millions of struggling Americans’

    President Obama’s Thursday speech made “it clear that the White House continues to favor rhetoric over results when it comes to addressing the nation’s many challenges,” a Georgia Congressman said. “This explains why the latest ideas coming out of the Obama Administration are essentially identical to the policies Democrats have experimented with for over two…

  • Davis execution set for Sept. 21

    ATLANTA — A man on death row for the 1989 shooting death of an off-duty Savannah police office is set to be executed by lethal injection on Sept. 21 at the Georgia Diagnostic and ClassificationPrison in Jackson, the state Department of Corrections said on Wednesday. Troy Anthony Davis, 41, was sentenced to death for the…

  • Deal appoints Butterworth as adjutant general

    ATLANTA — Gov. Nathan Deal on Tuesday named state Sen. Jim Butterworth, R-Clarkesville, as the next adjutant general of Georgia, a position responsible for more than 14,000 personnel in the Georgia Department of Defense. The state senator will resign his seat on Oct. 2, according to the governor’s office. That day, he will take command of…

  • Archery season for deer hunters kicks off Saturday

    ATLANTA — Archery season for deer hunters begins Saturday and runs through Oct. 14, according to the Georgia Department of Natural Resources’ Wildlife Resources Division. State officials say deer season is the most popular season for hunters in the state. Last year, more than 122,000 archers bagged more than 66,000 deer statewide. “This statewide framework…

  • Idaho or Georgia? Who has the better barbeque?

    Gov. Nathan Deal is going all in for the University of Georgia’s opening football game this evening. He has agreed to pit the Peach State’s barbeque against Idaho’s ‘que. UGA is taking on Boise State in tonight’s Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game. The winner will be picked in a best two-out-of-three competition that includes pork, brisket and…