If a panhandling ban is passed but nobody enforces it, what's the point?

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Last year, tourism and convention industry leaders pushed City Council to pass a controversial law prohibiting panhandling in a specific downtown "tourism triangle." Proponents of the ban said it would help prevent conventions whose members had grown tired of Atlanta's over-eager beggars from relocating to rival...

One of the only liberal talk-show radio stations in a market saturated by conservative signals might not survive the year.

Two-year-old WWAA-AM (1690), the local affiliate of progressive radio network Air America, was sold to JW Broadcasting for $12 million in late January from Intermart, a Scottsdale-based broadcasting company. Intermart says the sale was always part of their plan.

"The...

The breakneck race to create a city of Dunwoody has been halted for now in the General Assembly, but some perplexed onlookers remain mystified as to what was driving that runaway train — while others harbor suspicions about the motives of the cityhood proponents.

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"The only explanation that makes sense is that people up there don't want to be under a black government," says state Rep....

More often than not, the Public Service Commission sides with the utilities it regulates rather than Georgia consumers. Yet lawmakers this year are contemplating at least two bills that would bypass the commission's authority and hand utilities two early Christmas gifts.

The PSC, made up of elected officials from five districts across the state, determines how much profit companies such as...

On Feb. 13, nearly 150 med students and professionals from Morehouse College, Mercer University, the Medical College of Georgia and Emory University stood outside the state Capitol, clutching posters that said "Don't drive away our future doctors" and "Don't play politics with health care."

The signs referred to Senate Bill 529, which was introduced four days earlier by state Sen. Chip Rogers,...

The state senate approved a bill on Feb. 13 that would increase the production and use of biodiesel, the petroleum-free alternative fuel. The bill, sponsored by Sen. Brian Kemp, R-Athens, requires that local schools and state agencies run diesel vehicles, including school buses, on fuel that contains at least 2 percent biodiesel.

Because the state and local schools consume millions of gallons...