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Fairyland Lost: The Quiet Crisis on Lookout Mountain
Mar 25, 2025
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What HB 581 Means for Georgia: Understanding Amendment 1’s Consequences
Oct 15, 2024
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Elliot Pierce
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Lead in School Water: Did Walker County District Leadership Cover It Up?
Jun 17, 2023
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Elliot Pierce
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Walker County's Baffling Bank Shuffle
Oct 4, 2025
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Elliot Pierce
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Letter from a Fulton County Processing Center
Georgia's most aggrieved man makes his case.
Jan 19
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Elliot Pierce
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The Cheapest Decision-Makers in Georgia
School boards shape the future and manage the largest local budgets. Georgia compensates them like it’s sliding a dollar into a cup and whispering “good…
Jan 9
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Elliot Pierce
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Part 2: The Real Problem With Walker County Schools Isn’t the Calendar
The four-day school week debate is a distraction. The real solution requires the Georgia legislature....and someone needs to start that conversation.
Dec 29, 2025
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Elliot Pierce
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Part 1: Walker County’s Four-Day Fantasy
The research isn’t ambiguous. The promises don’t match reality.
Dec 27, 2025
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Elliot Pierce
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Walker County Cannot Fix Its Schools Until It Fixes Its Legal Advice
Five minutes in July gave the public and the school board a small glimpse of the trouble you buy when you trust the wrong lawyers.
Nov 14, 2025
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Elliot Pierce
Your Local Government Has Two Favorite Lies
Every con needs good branding. Local government in Georgia have two: “continuation” and “rollback.”
Oct 24, 2025
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Elliot Pierce
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The Transparency Chairwoman That Never Was
"Somewhere along the line, she started confusing control with competence, started believing that sounding transparent was the same as being…
Oct 13, 2025
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Elliot Pierce
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Walker County's Baffling Bank Shuffle
Puzzling financial decisions have prompted increasing citizen scrutiny. Most of it aimed at the new officials and employees who are discovering their…
Oct 4, 2025
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Elliot Pierce
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A Property Tax Revolt in Georgia Is Brewing. Who Will Lead It?
Ending school property taxes bridges two worlds — populist anger and practical reform. With the right plan, it fixes education funding and slashes the…
Sep 25, 2025
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Elliot Pierce
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A Dark Prophecy for the Republic
If you want to understand how we got here, you can't just look at the gunman or the other side you dislike. You have to look at the rest of us—all of…
Sep 11, 2025
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Elliot Pierce
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Ringgold: Refuse Sewer? Get the Shaft.
This is what a good ol’ fashioned government shakedown looks like.
Aug 7, 2025
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Elliot Pierce
Breaking the Lincoln Myth Before It Breaks America
Americans now worship presidential power instead of constitutional limits because of Lincoln's precedent.
Aug 3, 2025
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