With Mifepristone being debated before the Supreme Court, Georgia WIN List executive director Melita Easters joined me to explain how we even got here.

Mayor Andre Dickens made major news at his "state of the city" address yesterday, but in doing so left more questions than answers; namely "is the money from those new MARTA in-fill stations coming at a cost to streetcar/Beltline rail expansion? It wasn't lost on me (or others) that he didn't mention streetcar/Beltline rail.

Also, Centennial Yards made headlines with their "Battery-like" plans for the "Gulch;" but since we're talking mass transit - can we now discuss the need for options from the hotel district other than "by foot" or "rideshare?"

Lastly, Ronna Romney McDaniels' hiring (she got un-hired today, by the way) really caused a stir on 'Meet the Press' and MSNBC. Let's eavesdrop.

Over the weekend, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and her office hosted an Easter function for kids but naturally the media was there to ask probing questions, and while the threat of a gag order was brought up by Superior Court judge Scott McAfee last week, she spoke about the Trump election interference case anyhow. Argh.

Meanwhile, Atlanta mayor Andre Dickens gave his 'state of the city' address and made some news today, announcing new MARTA stops along established routes inside city limits, including at the new Murphy Crossing development near Oakland city. Plenty more 'Easter eggs' in that address, which you'll hear, in full, here.

Business acumen means opening a place because you know that you not only have customers pining for your service, but that they also have an ability to pay for it. Georgia Republicans' push to loosen the state's 'certificate of need' regulations to allow for more hospitals to be built (like in Butts County on property the Lt. Governor's father owns - for example) makes no sense when the state's lost rural, suburban and urban hospitals in the decade it hasn't accepted federal Medicaid expansion dollars.

Democrats gave it one more go, and in committee Republicans deadlocked the vote at 7-7, with the committee chair swapping out a potential 'yes' vote for a 'no.' Instead, they want to give a failing program one more year to fail.

With the World Cup coming to Atlanta in 2026, there's again interest in downtown revitalization. Bill Tory opines as such in the AJC. Here's a thought, though: we're this major convention and event city, and yet our venues and most of our downtown hotels of size aren't connected by transit in any way. Maybe address that?

Governor Brian Kemp and Georgia Republicans may be about the most stubborn(ly wrong) politicians known to man. They run one of only ten states still not to expand Medicaid, and insist their idea (Georgia Pathways) is superior in drawing down the number of uninsured in the state. The only problem is, they're (again) wrong about it, and their insistence on sticking to their plan is deadly for those uninsured North Carolina's data vs. Georgia's is embarrassing. Also 'work requirements' don't work.

Then there's these same politicians' stubbornness on school vouchers. Yep, that bill awaits the governor's eager signature, now, too, but columnist Jay Bookman warns that it's just the beginning.

A perfectly well-meaning bill introduced by freshman Rep. Omari Crawford passed out of the Georgia House and went into yesterday's Senate education subcommittee hearing, where five ultra-right wing measures - some explicitly anti-LGBTQIA+ - were attached to it. Hear Crawford present his bill, ask that only it be considered (it wouldn't be) and then hear Sen. Clint Dixon pile on the "red meat" that couldn't get out of Senate Rules committee already. All these GOP measures are backed by Lt. Governor Burt Jones - an announced gubernatorial candidate for the 2026 cycle, incidentally.

Hear Senators Elena Parent and Sonya Halpern skewer this nonsense. Then I'm joined by Jeff Graham, executive director at Georgia Equality for reaction and their planned on-site response at the gold dome.

While Laken Riley's mom and stepfather cozied up to Donald Trump and Marjorie Taylor Greene, a somber biological father - Jason Riley - emerged via an interview with NBC News that show us a heartbroken man disgusted that his daughter's murder has been politicized. Meanwhile, the local newspaper sought feedback from Georgia sheriffs and they're not thrilled with the predicament state GOP lawmakers are putting them in with ill-conceived immigration laws they say overburden already stretched-thin jail & law enforcement agencies. Their responses also show, quite glaringly, how I.C.E. needing better funding to better do its job at the federal level is pretty clear to see. If only there were bipartisan support for legislation that would address that, right?

As promised yesterday, I reconnected with my former radio co-host (and current realtor) Mackenzie Crabtree to catch up & react to the N.A.R. settlement and poor media coverage of it, and guess as to what's next for residential real estate in the U.S.

There are SO many moments easy to recount all the ways Donald Trump has used violent rhetoric that it's mystifying to me why mainstream media and the Biden/Harris re-election team have sought to frame Trump's rambling auto industry diatribe as a continued incitement of political violence. It's not, and we need to instead focus on substantive stories that should be garnering far more of our attention. Like the tariffs he spoke in that now-infamous quip, or his own Vice President balking at endorsing him.

So, why was Nathan Wade going to go on 'Meet The Press?' Bad idea, dude. Also, why's it at all a big deal people who worked together may have dated? Bill Maher touched on that.

The mainstream media's done a rather poor job, as well, relaying the National Association of Realtors' proposed settlement, and - since I'm also a realtor - I thought I'd provide some perspective, background and clarity to the situation.

Georgia Republicans have been hell-bent on diverting taxpayer funds to give money to private school students' parents, and they're as close as ever before to getting their way. It's impossible to see how this is anything more than a subsidy for households who can already afford the tuition or how it benefits students from poor households or those with exceptional needs. We've seen how this goes elsewhere (and provide proof). I'm also joined by Dom Kelly, co-founder & CEO of New Disabled South, who weighs in on private schools being allowed to take public dollars soon while still discriminating without blowback.

He and I also discuss the ongoing humanitarian criss in Gaza. As a Jewish American millennial, he's at odds with older Jewish Americans - his liberal grandmother included - in his opposition to Israel's continued aggression in Gaza (and the West Bank). Listen as we navigate that relationship and the complexities the Biden administration faces in keeping a fragile coalition together where it appears there's no way to make everyone happy with the result.

BREAKING: Judge Scott McAfee renders a verdict on the Fulton DA disqualification attempt, giving Fani Willis the decision to either recuse herself and her entire office or have special prosecutor Nathan Wade step aside.

Superior court judge Scott McAfee did what teachers used to do to students who didn't show their work; he returned six indictments against Donald Trump & some of his co-conspirators because the Fulton County district attorney's office didn't specify what Georgia or US Constitutional statutes the defendants allegedly violated. Unforced error or a willful attempt to be vague to make defense's work more difficult?

Oh, good news: Atlanta's now the sixth-largest US metropolitan area - but we're not really ready for such a lofty distinction, are we?

The 2023 session's doomed school voucher bill (SB233) is back and on it's way to passage this time, but Rep. Lydia Glaize and Rep. Doreen Carter exposed this sham bill for what it is.

We review primary voter data to see which of the two presidential candidates is most vulnerable for losing Georgia because of a disgruntled electorate within their party.

Governor Brian Kemp - no fan of Donald Trump - who could be the flashlight guiding Republicans through the Trump darkness - instead confessed to voting and throwing his support behind the nominee. Trump. Sad.

Atlanta's getting a "stitch," but will liberal NIMBY's derail light rail?