Craig Nelson is a former international correspondent for The Associated Press, the Sydney (Australia) Morning-Herald, Cox Newspapers and The Wall Street Journal. He also served as foreign editor for The National (Abu Dhabi) and as the Journal’s Kabul bureau chief and London-based Africa and Middle East editor.
Chatham County’s voter registration office said Friday that some absentee ballots issued for next month’s elections were lost in the mail, adding that it was “actively working” to remedy what the office’s supervisor termed a “technical error.”
International Paper, a longtime pillar of Coastal Georgia’s economy, announced Thursday that it will permanently close its Savannah and Riceboro plants by the end of September and cut some 1,100 hourly and salaried jobs.
For observers, any campaign rally is an opportunity to gauge who’s up and who’s down, who’s in and who’s out. Case in point: Trump’s speech at the Johnny Mercer Theatre on Tuesday, which was prime viewing for Georgia GOP watchers in a state where the Republicans are experiencing a Cold War.
Students and faculty members at Georgia Southern University’s main campus held a sit-in rally on Monday to protest the termination of a program aimed at reducing discrimination against LGBTQIA+ people.
