Roaring Voices

Opinion: Why are people afraid of election integrity?

By: L. Cramer Our news cycle moves far too fast and important topics that should still be on our minds are removed and replaced by

September 23, 2024

Breaking News

1A: It Exists to Protect Jerks Too

Once upon a time, Cobb County was still red, taxes were much lower and county employees were happier in their work. Controversies happened, but for the most part elected and appointed officials were competent and accountable.

I was thinking about an arrest, however, that happened just before I “retired” from my job as a columnist with the local newspaper. It had to do with free speech and it’s worth mentioning in the wake of the “Heil Hitler” incident percolating in the county today.

September 19, 2024

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Outrage In the Chaos: Nothing Gets Accomplished

Anyone remember 2016 when we first heard students at Emory were “in pain, concerned… and frightened”… because they saw some chalk graffiti on the sidewalks of their campus? It said TRUMP and they simply couldn’t handle it. Mortified, they claimed they were “in fear of our lives…” which, inexplicably, made national headlines.

September 18, 2024

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Another debate, another hangover

Last night was the second presidential debate for Donald Trump but the first for Kamala Harris in this election cycle. However, the real stars of the show were ABC’s moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis for their outstandingly horrendous handling of a presidential debate.

Conservatives were fully aware that Donald Trump walking onto an ABC debate stage was like walking behind enemy lines, however I think after the CNN debate with Biden, where the moderators did a relatively good job at being neutral, Trump voters were hopeful that the trend of a fair debate would continue – it did not.

September 11, 2024

Roaring Voices

Editorial: Making Landslides Fun Again

I just found out Dennis Quaid made a movie about my favorite president and I can’t wait to see it.

When I viewed the trailer online the other day, it made me cry, and I’ll wager I’m not the only boomer whose emotions welled up as the memories took me back.

Forty-four years ago this November, I walked into Myers Hall at UGA after a late dinner at the dining hall, surprised to see dozens of fellow Bulldogs gathered around 36-inch televisions in both corners of the large room.

“REAGAN in a LANDSLIDE!!!” they were all yelling as the polls had barely closed. The whoops and hollers and clapping are fresh in my mind almost a half century later.

September 4, 2024

Local News

The Danger in Aurora Matters: Illegal Immigration is Chaos

Over the last week to ten days there have been numerous videos, images and posts on X (formerly Twitter) that catalogue the absolute terror happening in Aurora, Colorado, where a violent Venezuelan street gang called Tren de Aragua, or TdA, is actively taking over apartment buildings and forcing residents to pay them instead of the landlords of the complexes. This isn’t all though, other videos are showing the chaos involved in having these gangs in Aurora, like this one showing three young men walking through a parking lot filled with trash as gunfire rings out around them.

September 4, 2024

Local News

Judicial Emergency Extended and More Alarming Stories about Cobb County Superior Court Clerk’s Office

It’s just another day at the Cobb County Superior Court. Files are opening, cases are being heard and Chief Judge A. Gregory Poole issued an extension of his August 7, Judicial Emergency because Connie Taylor’s Cobb County Superior Court Clerk’s office still hasn’t gotten its act together.

“While the situation in the Clerk’s Office regarding document availability has improved, a significant backlog remains,” the press release says. “Some documents dating as far back as November 2023 remain unindexed. The Superior Court Clerk’s Office also continues to experience many of the issues listed in the Initial Notice. Specifically, issues regarding noticing, scheduling, and calendaring remain.”

August 30, 2024

Local Politics

The Importance of House District 42: The Game has Changed

Just when you thought the 2024 election couldn’t get any crazier, Robert F. Kennedy Jr endorsed a Republican on Friday which has changed the entire playing field – again.

This unprecedented decision has laid the groundwork for a different way to do politics. No longer do you have to vote along party lines because that’s what you’ve always done; no longer do you have to turn a blind eye to the left or the right silencing, canceling or removing someone from a ballot or position of influence.
Humans are creatures of habit. It can take seven days to create a habit, but anywhere from 18 to 250 to break it; and break it we must. It’s time to stop playing political games and allowing one party or the other tell us what to do or who to vote for. It’s time to be more like Kennedy, and even Tulsi Gabbard, and join together with the common goal to defeat the socialist agenda.

There is one person in Cobb County who currently stands between us and socialism – that person is Diane Jackson.

August 27, 2024

Local Politics

Something is Wrong With Governor Kemp

The news has broken that republican governor Brian Kemp has turned against his own party members on the Georgia Board of Elections because of their efforts to restore election integrity in the Peach state.

To simplify (i.e. leaving Trump out of the equation):

A new election reform rule passed last Monday by these members in a 3-2 party line vote is designed to reduce cheating, a goal every honorable board member should support. It’s a legitimate improvement to the system that increases accountability at the most local level, a no brainer that should not even be controversial. The rule is based on America’s Constitutional ONE CITIZEN, ONE VOTE idea and mandates that each precinct in Georgia – precincts are the places you go to vote in your neighborhood — must meet specific requirements when it comes to matching up the number of ballots cast with the number of “unique voter id’s” registered in that precinct. Without this rule, what EVEN is the point of voter registration?

August 27, 2024

Breaking News

Superior Court Clerk Employee Turnover Responsible for Unnecessary Warrants against Citizens

Something just doesn’t seem right at Cobb County Superior Court Clerk Connie Taylor’s office. After Chief Judge Poole issued the Notice of Judicial Emergency on August 7, the story was top of mind for about a minute and then the news cycle moved on to other things.

But as we mentioned in our last article, these issues at the clerk’s office have been long standing and brutal for the entire Cobb County judicial system. So brutal, in fact, that Judge Robert D. Leonard II, who currently presides over the Veterans Accountability and Treatment Court, has publicly denounced the chaos that has led to the crippling of the entire Cobb County court system.

August 20, 2024