The amended state budget for fiscal year 2012, which will be voted out by the House Appropriations Committee on Thursday, includes $300 million for the North by Northwest highway project in Cobb County . . .
After a last-minute question from Gov. Nathan Deal is resolved, the State Financing and Investment Commission adopts a resolution clearing the way for a public-private toll lane project in Cobb County . . .
A recent town hall meeting in Cobb County provides a strong hint that the T-SPLOST sales tax for transportation improvements is facing very dim prospects at the ballot box next year . . .
Georgia gets a much-needed federal highway loan that will enable the Northwest Corridor toll lane project to stay on track . . .
Many of you will no doubt remember how some elected officials in Cobb County were so virulently anti-gay back in the 1990s that one of the events in the Atlanta Olympics was yanked from the county and held elsewhere. Well, it looks like gays are getting a little payback in Marietta.
