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Experts skeptical of Speaker Mike Johnson’s prediction of legal challenges to replacing Biden
Hours before President Biden announced he would not seek reelection, Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson said there could be legal challenges — a warning election law experts said would only hold true if Biden was the official nominee. “Every state has its own election system,” Johnson told CNN’s Jake Tapper Sunday on “State of the Union” — hours before Biden’s announcement. “In some of these states it’s a real hurdle replacing someone at the top of the ticket.” ...
Cave Spring to Hold Solar Farm Q&A on Monday
The Cave Spring City Council will hold a special called meeting Monday, primarily to hear from a Georgia Power Co. representative about solar farms. A rezoning at the historic Vann Cherokee Cabin downtown also is on the agenda. Council members are scheduled to meet at 5 p.m. in City Hall, 10 Georgia Ave. The gathering — billed as a combination work session and meeting — is public. A question and...
Floyd County to Vote on RV Park and 2024 Property Tax Rate on Tuesday
Plans for an RV campground near Cave Spring and a solar farm on Alabama Highway will go before the Floyd County Commission on Tuesday. The board also is scheduled to set the millage rate for 2024. Commissioners caucus at 4 p.m. and start their regular meeting at 6 p.m. in the County Administration Building, 12 E. Fourth Ave. A public hearing on the proposed property tax rate also is scheduled for 8 a.m. that day. ...
President Biden drops out of presidential race
President Biden announced Sunday he will no longer seek reelection, throwing the election into disarray. The 81-year-old commander-in-chief announced his decision Sunday on social media following nearly a month of speculation and numerous calls for him to leave the race since his heavily criticized debate performance. “While it has been my intention to seek reelection, I believe it is in the best interest of my party and the country for...
Rome To Set Tax Rate, Consider 'Small Bar' Concept Monday
The Rome City Commission is scheduled to set the city and school property tax rates on Monday and get a first look at several changes recommended by the Alcohol Control Commission. A final public hearing on the proposed millage rates is scheduled just before the vote during the board’s 6:30 p.m. meeting at City Hall, 601 Broad St. Plans are for a slight decrease, to a combined rate of 26.25...
Running Water To Enterprise Corner Property To Begin In Earnest In 2025
Work to run water and sewer service along Cartersville Highway to the Enterprise Corner industrial property will likely begin in earnest in early 2025. The 200-acre property is located along U.S. 411 at 231 Bass Ferry Road. It was purchased by the Rome-Floyd County Development Authority for just under $4.2 million in SPLOST funds in 2021. While the tract is not yet tied into the water and sewer systems, that...
Getting Ready For The Big Show: Meet The Contestants For RCDC
Rome is buzzing with excitement for the upcoming Rome Celebrity Dance Challenge on Aug. 3. The competition is a fundraising event held by the Sexual Assault Center of Northwest Georgia. Proceeds from the event go towards funding the center and the work it does throughout the community. Ten teams will perform and a panel of four judges will give out first and second place People’s Choice Awards and Judges’ Choice...
From Saddle Mountain to Kilimanjaro: Harbin Docs Climb Africa's Highest Peak
“On Monday, June 23, 2024, we summited Uhuru Peak, the highest point of Mount Kilimanjaro. Standing at 19,340 feet above sea level, the journey to the top was a physical challenge and a profound experience of self discovery and personal growth. Here’s what we learned from our adventure.” So begins a blog entry by Dr. Amar Singh. The blog chronicles the incredibly challenging journey three Rome physicians made recently when they set out to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro, Africa’s highest peak. ...
Football Preseason Officially Gets Underway Monday
With summer workout and conditioning programs now in the rear-view mirror, prep football teams will officially start the preseason Monday with their first of the GHSA’s mandated acclimation-day practices. In a rule adopted several years ago, the GHSA requires teams to hold five days of non-padded practices to acclimate to the heat before putting on the full pads. Several local teams will have a full week of those non-padded sessions,...
Blue Angels To Return To Wings Over North Georgia in 2025
For the second year in a row, the Wings Over North Georgia air show will not take place due to construction on the main runway at the Richard B. Russell Regional Airport, however, the air show organizers recently announced that the Blue Angels will headline the show in 2025. The Blue Angels have not been at the airshow since 2021, but have headlined the event several times in the past. ...
Kemp Headed To Italy On Trade Mission
Gov. Brian Kemp will lead a weeklong trade mission to Italy to strengthen existing economic ties with Italian businesses and develop new partnerships, the governor’s office announced Friday. Kemp, Georgia First Lady Marty Kemp, and representatives of the state Department of Economic Development will meet next week with executives from companies currently doing business in Georgia, including firearms manufacturer Beretta, tiremaker Pirelli, TMC Transformers, and textiles manufacturer Aquafil. “For decades,...
Lawsuit Accuses State Election Board With Meeting Illegally
A nonprofit nonpartisan watchdog group filed a lawsuit Friday charging the State Election Board with violating Georgia’s Open Meetings Act after meeting last week without legally required public notice or a quorum. The three Republicans on the five-member board gave preliminary approval during a special meeting last Friday to rules changes that would require local election officials to post daily updates on their websites and inside polling places during early voting and give poll watchers greater access on election nights while votes are being processed. ...
Alabama Executes man For 1998 Cherokee Co. Murder
A man convicted in a 1998 murder in Cherokee County, Alabama was executed by lethal injection Thursday evening at the William C. Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore, Ala. According to court records, Keith Edmund Gavin was convicted of murder in Illinois on June 9, 1982. In February 1998, just months after he was released from prison, he and his cousin, Dewayne Meeks, traveled to Fort Payne, Alabama, to pick up girls, and for Gavin to get away “because he had been gone a long time.” ...
Around Town: Rome Speedway Seeks Green Flag for Switch to Manufacturing Site. Atrium Pays $17.6M for Kindred Building.
On select summer evenings off U.S. 411 and Chulio Road, you can easily hear the roar in the air. It has nothing to do with the cicadas; instead it signals another gathering of racing enthusiasts at Rome Speedway. But those events have slowed in recent years, for health and other reasons, and now much broader changes are proposed. The Swims family purchased the speedway in 1968 and staged their first...
Trump calls for unity in emotional Republican convention speech after shooting: ‘Our resolve is unbroken’
Former President Donald Trump accepted the Republican presidential nomination on Thursday with an emotional speech to the party’s national convention that marked his dramatic first public appearance since surviving an assassination attempt. Standing alongside firefighter’s gear that belonged to slain Trump rallygoer Corey Comperatore, Trump claimed that divine intervention saved him from also being killed in the attack at a Pennsylvania campaign rally last weekend. “As you already know, the...
'The Worst Type Of Evil': Life Sentence For November 2022 Murder
Aaron Davis had just aced the GCSE exam and called his parents to let them know how excited he was and that he was going to visit his best friend in Rome before going to see his girlfriend in Alabama. He was infamous for his loud shirts, had a flair for making people feel good and a love for his family that didn’t know any bounds. Teaching was a profession that the recent graduate was excited about, although he was still considering a career in...
State Rolls Out $1.5B Transportation Projects List; Bartow and Gordon Improvements Advanced
Gov. Brian Kemp on Thursday announced how the state plans to spend $1.5 billion in surplus funds the General Assembly earmarked earlier this year for transportation infrastructure improvements. Major projects in Gordon and Bartow counties are among the beneficiaries. The one-time infusion of transportation dollars will raise spending on the Georgia Department of Transportation’s capital construction program by 58%. It also will more than double state aid to local governments...
New Housing Starts Continue To Grow Across Floyd County
New housing starts in Floyd County continue their explosive growth. According to local real estate professionals, new construction starts are continuing at a brisk pace and the number of available homes continues to grow. “We’ve got the highest amount of housing inventory available, 280 homes, since before the pandemic,” said Hardy Real Estate and Development Agency President Jimmy Byars. “However, pre-pandemic, we averaged 500 homes available per year.” ...
Northwest Georgia Sees Surge in Job Count
There’s another stunning surge in Rome-Floyd local jobs showcased in the June employment report from the state Department of Labor. An astounding 4,300 jobs were added in the 12 months between June of 2023 and last month, the latest update shows. The Rome/Floyd job count was at 47,600, the same as in May but up significantly from 43,300 workers in June of last year. The labor department chart shows the...
CRBI Director: Hammond Ash Pond A 'Recipe For Disaster'
The Atlanta-based Southern Environmental Law Center is asking the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to revoke a permit the state issued last year for a coal ash pond closure project at Plant Hammond. According to the SELC, the permit issued last fall by the Georgia Environmental Protection Division allows toxic coal ash to remain in contact with groundwater at the Georgia Power plant near Rome in violation of a federal rule adopted in 2015. ...
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