CarMax Auto Finance – 7/11/2012 at 11 am – 1 pm Address – Cobb/Cherokee GDOL, 465 Big Shanty Road, Marietta Georgia CarMax Auto Finance will be at the Cobb/Cherokee GDOL facilitating Info Sessions about their Bilingual (English/Spanish) Customer Service Rep positions that are available. Candidates will complete online pre-screenings while at the GDOL. Employer requests […]
Two fathers embarrassed themselves and set a terrible example for children when they started a brawl at a Little League baseball game in Columbus, Georgia over the weekend. The fight reportedly started when Iram King, 36, told Charles Davidson, 38, to lower some music he was playing after a game between Northern Little League and […]
Hampton, Georgia — located in Henry County — has passed a law in which they will fine men who wear “saggy pants” $50 for their first offense. The amounts that come with repeated offenses are what have many critics up in arms. Hampton will fine repeat offenders $100, and third-time offenders $200. The town’s 5,100 […]
Georgia is now considered one of the top five states in the country for film and TV production with more than 274 projects shot in the state since July 2010, reports the AJC.com. TV shows shot in Georgia include BET’s “The Game,” MTV’s “Teen Wolf,” the Discovery Channel’s “Auction Kings” and AMC’s critically-acclaimed hit shot […]
Despite threats of court challenges and economic boycotts, Georgia governor Nathan Deal has signed into law one of the nation’s most toughest and controversial immigration enforcement measures. Georgia’s House Bill 87 is partly modeled on a controversial immigration law passed by Arizona last year. The AJC reports that House Bill 87 empowers police to investigate […]
Georgia moved one step closer to Sunday alcohol sales today when the Georgia Senate passed Senate Bill 10, which would allow local communities to vote whether to allow retail stores to sell alcohol on Sunday, the AJC reports. The bill is thought to have a good shot at passing in the House and Gov. Nathan […]
A House panel quickly passed its own version of legislation Wednesday allowing local voters to approve Sunday beer, wine and liquor sales at stores. House sponsors said they didn’t want to wait on the Senate, which has for years been reluctant to consider Sunday sales bills, to act. A Senate committee approved similar legislation last […]
Reports are coming out of Georgia that prison guards have retaliated with violence in response to the Georgia Prison strike that took place last month. According to Georgia State NAACP President Edward Dubose, inmates have been beaten with hammers and other foreign objects allegedly in retaliation for their participation in the strike. President Dubose says […]
From Correntewire and Davey D’s Hip-Hop Blog: Georgia — On Thursday morning, December 9, 2010, thousands of Georgia prisoners refused to work, stopped all other activities and locked down in their cells in a peaceful protest for their human rights. The December 9 Strike became the biggest prisoner protest in the history of the United […]
A squabble at a council meeting in a Georgia city has caught the attention of the NAACP after a white councilman told his black counterpart that he should be working in a cotton field. The exchange took place in a recent Warner Robins City Council meeting near Macon.
With the Republican Party blocking every positive action that President Obama tries to take, plus the emergence of the ultra-conservative Tea Party (which many, including the NAACP, have accused of having racists in its movement), the midterm elections in November are extremely important. Locally, Georgia has a chance to elect its first Democratic governor in years in Roy Barnes, who is running against Republican Nathan Deal.
Hundreds of people have gotten sick from eating eggs contaminated with salmonella. Initially, 228 million eggs were recalled last week by the company, Wright County Egg of Galt, Iowa. Now that number has jumped to about 380 million eggs. Several states have received eggs from that company, and the updated recall list includes: California, Colorado, […]
