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John McCosh

@jmccosh.bsky.social
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Former Miami newsie, and Atlanta news editor. It's John, not Josh. Former editor @georgiarecorder.bluesky.com

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John McCosh @jmccosh.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Hegseth slips in to key national security role, via @georgiarecorder.com
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Georgia Recorder @georgiarecorder.com · 22/01/2025
New from @mayahoman.bsky.social: How will the Georgia Legislature impose lawsuit award limits? A 2024 insurance commissioner’s report offers clues.
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How will the Georgia Legislature impose lawsuit award limits? • Georgia Recorder
Just a few days into Georgia’s 2025 legislative session, proposed new limits on lawsuit awards is a priority trumpeted by business groups, some lawmakers and the governor alike as one of the top issue...
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John McCosh @jmccosh.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Jimmy Carter once campaigned for governor with a very different message on race relations than the one he espoused once elected georgiarecorder.com/2025/01/10/c...
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Carter ushered in new era of race relations after Georgia’s long racially segregated history • Georgia Recorder
Jimmy Carter's civil rights legacy as Georgia governor, speech on segregation, hiring Blacks in state government, hanging an MLK portrait.
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John McCosh @jmccosh.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Read the @georgiarecorder.com team report on Saturday ceremonies for Jimmy Carter georgiarecorder.com/2025/01/04/f...
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Former President Jimmy Carter starts last journey through Georgia from Plains to Atlanta • Georgia Recorder
Former President Jimmy Carter may have only served one term as governor, but he left his mark in many ways before leaving for Washington, even literally. With a pencil, Carter signed the desk in the g...
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John McCosh @jmccosh.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Well wishers who want to say goodbye to President Jimmy Carter at Georgia events this weekend have a few options, from Plains to Atlanta. @georgiarecorder.com staff will be on hand. georgiarecorder.com/briefs/carte...
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Carter admirers will have chance to say goodbye as funeral services begin Saturday in Georgia • Georgia Recorder
Members of the public who wish to pay their respects to former President Jimmy Carter will have several opportunities in the coming days. Carter died Sunday at the age of 100. He is the longest-lived ...
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John McCosh @jmccosh.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
The georgiarecorder.com newsletter is pausing until January 2nd. The home page will update on weekdays other than Christmas and New Year's Day, so please check in with us. Merry, merry to all.
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John McCosh @jmccosh.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Columnist @jaybookman.bsky.social digs into the expansion of school vouchers despite unpopularity with voters georgiarecorder.com/2024/12/19/b...
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Bookman: Wealthy school voucher supporters send disapproving taxpayers the bill • Georgia Recorder
School vouchers are unpopular. They are unpopular with liberal voters. They are unpopular with conservative voters. In modern American politics, it is rare to find such agreement, with voters of all s...
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John McCosh @jmccosh.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Columnist @jaybookman.bsky.social analyzes future political future political options for Georgia’s governor georgiarecorder.com/2024/12/05/b...
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Bookman: Kemp has complex political calculus ahead as he ponders leaving Georgia Governor's Mansion • Georgia Recorder
Columnist Jay Bookman says Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp will need to factor in the success of the Trump administration in his political calculus.
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John McCosh @jmccosh.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
A timely reminder by @georgiarecorder.bsky.social editorial cartoonist John Cole that Georgia farmers depend on immigrants to harvest food georgiarecorder.com/2024/11/27/j...
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John McCosh @jmccosh.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Georgia Recorder columnist @jaybookman.bsky.social looks at what happens to business in the state if a Trump administration imposes steep tariffs and deports immigrants en masse. georgiarecorder.com/2024/11/21/b...
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Bookman: Trump deportations, tariffs will stifle Georgia's farming and tax-subsidized EV industries • Georgia Recorder
Columnist Jay Bookman opines that Georgia's economy will take a hit from tariffs and mass deportation withTrump administration.
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John McCosh @jmccosh.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Georgia planned national park has bipartisan congressional support, but not much time left in 2024 georgiarecorder.com/briefs/plann...
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Planned central Georgia national park gains momentum with few days left before Congress adjourns • Georgia Recorder
A proposal to turn a prehistoric American Indian site in central Georgia into the state’s first national park advanced out a U.S. Senate committee Tuesday. But the bipartisan group of Georgia lawmaker...
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John McCosh @jmccosh.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
No reason given by court for cancelation of long-scheduled hearing georgiarecorder.com/briefs/georg...
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Georgia appeals court cancels hearing to consider if Fulton DA can remain on Trump RICO case • Georgia Recorder
Georgia court cancels Dec. 5, 2024 hearing on appeal to remove Fulton District Attorney Willis from Trump's 2020 presidential election case.
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John McCosh @jmccosh.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Georgia growers of grapes, peaches and other fruit are bracing for the invasion of the lantern fly georgiarecorder.com/2024/11/19/g...
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Georgia fruit growers, state agriculture experts on alert for spotted lanternfly sightings • Georgia Recorder
Larry Lykins has learned to roll with the punches when it comes to threats to his 14-acre Ellijay vineyard. His winery survived a virus spread via nursery plants several years after he bought the vine...
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John McCosh @jmccosh.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
The Georgia election board is slowing its roll - georgiarecorder.com/2024/11/18/i... - our report via the Georgia Recorder's new Bluesky channel
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In first meeting since Trump win, Georgia election board defers to Legislature to implement plans • Georgia Recorder
GOP Georgia Election Board members vote Nov. 19 to ask state Legislature pass rules making public voter data lists for each election.
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John McCosh @jmccosh.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Georgia State commission approves recipients for more than $44 million in opioid settlement money georgiarecorder.com/briefs/state...
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State panel steering Georgia opioid settlement money recommends initial round of projects • Georgia Recorder
This story was updated at 8:15 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 14, 2024.  A state panel has made its recommendations for how the first round of funding from a major $638 million settlement with opioid manufact...
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John McCosh @jmccosh.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
@georgiarecorder.bsky.social editorial cartoonist John Cole takes a crack at summing up an eventful early November in Georgia: georgiarecorder.com/2024/11/13/j...
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John McCosh @jmccosh.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Did Fulton DA Fani Willis make dozens of jurors sit in court hearings for many months weighing the 2020 election interference case against Donald Trump, all for naught? Very possible, as @georgiarecorder.bsky.social Senior Reporter Stanley Dunlap explains. georgiarecorder.com/2024/11/13/a...
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After Trump’s election, future murky for Fulton RICO case against president and Georgia allies • Georgia Recorder
Fulton, Georgia District Attorney Willis deals with GOP President elect Donald Trump, defendants in 2020 election interference case.
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John McCosh @jmccosh.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
I'm joining the Bluesky surge away from brand X with a post featuring new @georgiarecorder.bsky.social freelancer Leon Stafford's story that asks if downlisting of the red-cockaded woodpecker is a good thing or a bad thing. georgiarecorder.com/2024/11/12/w...
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Will end of endangered status for red-cockaded woodpecker reduce role of Georgia military bases? • Georgia Recorder
The red-cockaded woodpecker’s population had dwindled when federal officials decided to classify the bird as endangered back in 1970.
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John McCosh @jmccosh.bsky.social · 14/10/2023
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John McCosh @jmccosh.bsky.social · 24/09/2023
Tonight's lineup at Crypto Arena
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John McCosh @jmccosh.bsky.social · 31/08/2023
The latest from the Georgia Recorder on the indictments against Donald Trump and his 18 allies in the 2020 election racketeering case.
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Trump pleads not guilty, waives arraignment in Georgia 2020 election interference case - Georgia Rec...
Ex-Republican President Donald Trump pleads not guilty in Fulton Georgia 2020 election interference case that will be live streamed online.
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John McCosh @jmccosh.bsky.social · 23/08/2023
Georgia Recorder will post to a live blog today with updates from the Fulton County jail and courthouse.
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Live coverage from Fulton County: Trump, allies surrender in election interference case - Georgia Re...
Former President Donald Trump and his 18 co-defendants have until noon Friday to voluntarily surrender after a Fulton County grand jury handed up indictments last week alleging a multistate plot to ov...
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John McCosh @jmccosh.bsky.social · 22/08/2023
Looks like switch to Brand X alternatives will accelerate as it grows less useful as a news feed.
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Scoop: X/Twitter, is planning a major change in how news articles appear on the service, stripping out the headline and other text so that tweets with links display only an article’s lead image, acc...
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John McCosh @jmccosh.bsky.social · 22/08/2023
Donald Trump says he will turn himself in at the Fulton County jail Thursday as his GOP allies also arrange to bond out soon after they are booked. #gapol
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Trump, allies start to forge bond deals ahead of expected booking at Fulton County jail this week - ...
Former President Donald Trump agreed to a $200,000 bond order ahead of an expected booking in Fulton County Jail this week.
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John McCosh @jmccosh.bsky.social · 19/08/2023
Georgia Recorder summer fellow Aaleah McConnell reports the latest on the state's sad affordable housing crunch georgiarecorder.com/2023/08/19/no-q…
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John McCosh @jmccosh.bsky.social · 17/08/2023
Fingers crossed that this new alternative to Brand X is the answer. No doubt though that #BlueSky would be my walkup song if I was an MLB player.
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