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TORPY: Red, White and Blueland? The ambient sounds of Trump bootlicking
It’s been an embarrassing display for years watching otherwise proud Republicans debase themselves just to get a kindly nod from The Don.
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TORPY: Mayor Dickens set for 2nd-term shoo-in; it’s the Atlanta way
Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens will probably chalk up a decisive victory against a gadfly or two.
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TORPY: Letting kids go free range. Supporters say: ‘There oughta be a law’
Two bills introduced at the Georgia state legislature aim to protect parents from the long-arm of the law if their kids are caught out there free-ranging.
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OPINION: Lawsuit alleges more than dirt covers up a Piedmont Park sinkhole
In 2018, a deep sinkhole suddenly formed beneath a Piedmont Park restaurant under construction. Since then, the restaurateurs have been engaged in a nasty legal fight.
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TORPY: A $32.5M ‘oops’ leads to death that might cost all Georgia cities
Milton is arguing that financial doomsday hangs over its head — and all Georgia cities — in the form of those utility poles and other structures along the roadway.
TORPY: DeKalb sewer woes, a stinky saga that’s played through the decades
DeKalb County will again miss a federal deadline to fix its sewer system – and no one should be surprised. Here's why.
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TORPY: Deliver 30 million meals? ‘No problem,’ says scammer in FEMA flop
Tiffany Brown is a businesswoman who was convicted last week in federal court for defrauding the federal government of FEMA funds.
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TORPY: Diversity in Georgia Legislature not all it’s cracked up to be
In the Legislature, there is not true diversity. It’s Us. And it’s Them. And it falls along racial lines.
TORPY: Gambling’s back. Sports betting would be a real loser
Gambling has returned for consideration to the Golden Dome for the seventh straight year.
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TORPY: MARTA bans ads for lawyers and massage parlors. What’s the rub?
Starting Jan. 1, MARTA stopped taking advertisements from attorneys like John Foy, whose ads grace probably 80% of all MARTA’s 500-plus buses.