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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.
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TORPY: Y2K + 25 = swoosh, that was fast
As 2025 ticked into being, we are left to consider the fact that Y2K is now 25 years past.
TORPY: Carter’s political duplicity, brutal defeat and ultimate goodness
Jimmy Carter’s unlikely candidacy for president was nearly derailed by honesty.
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TORPY: ‘Odor of mendacity’ hits Fani Willis in appellate ruling
The appellate decision means that DA Fani Willis’ two sprawling, high-profile gang racketeering cases lay smoldering on the sidewalk outside the Fulton County Courthouse.
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TORPY: Inhumanity rules at Georgia’s prisons. But does anyone care?
The conditions in Georgia’s prison system are anything but humane. But the humans involved are convicted criminals, so that largely draws shrugs.
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TORPY: Team GOP on board with election results - this time, at least
Republicans, until recently a suspicious lot, are nearly unanimous — 98% — in believing the 2024 election was on the up and up, according to a University of Georgia survey.
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TORPY: Atlanta’s Corner of Death to get some new life
The city wants to allow “adaptive reuse” for the former the “Pink Store” in Atlanta's Pittsburgh neighborhood. This translates to creating some kind of store with residences.
TORPY: Vincent Fort, Georgia’s dutiful voice of outrage, gets his due
The Atlanta City Council decided it was time to celebrate former State Sen. Vincent Fort — while he is still here — even though he may be more accustomed to getting brickbats