Even when it seems the border wall, the Mueller probe and the Korean summit have overshadowed the healthcare debate, it remains a constant, driving force in American politics. The battle rages on, in venues outside Washington.
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Sale of WSB-TV heralds big changes in Atlanta media scene
The media is seldom so circumspect as when it covers itself. Thus it was that the biggest Atlanta media story in many a year landed Saturday morning in a modest one-column hole on Page A10 of the Journal-Constitution.
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An open seat race emerges in “a microcosm of the new Georgia”
U.S. Rep. Rob Woodall’s announcement last week that he won’t run again for the 7th Congressional District seat which he won by a hair in the last election doesn’t guarantee that this former Republican stronghold will swing to the Democrats in 2020. But it does bring to a close an era of Republican history.
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Remembering Zell Miller: Barbed wire, honeysuckle and a flannel shirt
The political persona Zell Miller shaped through years of trial and error emphasized the parts that he shared with the broadest swath of what he thought of as his people. But he was more complicated than that.
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Throwing money at crumbling infrastructure won’t be enough
The presidential candidates’ positions on fixing the nation’s crumbling infrastructure can be characterized as spend, and spend more. But spend on what, exactly?
