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About Phil Kent

Authored 26 articles.

Articles

• JAMES Magazine Online: Trump Border ‘Czar’ Outlines Plans to Georgia Audience

  News, December 13, 2024

• JAMES Magazine Online: Fulton County DA Suffers Two Legal Setbacks

  News, December 05, 2024

• JAMES Magazine Online: Election Post-Mortem: Counties that Made the Difference

  News, November 15, 2024

• JAMES Magazine Online: OPINION: Georgia’s Healthcare Workforce: Collaboration & Opportunity on the Rise

  News, November 08, 2024

• JAMES Magazine Online: An Early Look at Georgia’s Early Vote Numbers

  News, October 18, 2024

• JAMES Magazine Online: Republicans Sue for Poll Worker Parity in Georgia

  News, October 10, 2024

• JAMES Magazine Online: Georgia Assn. of Broadcasters Wants AM Car Radio Retained

  News, September 06, 2024

• JAMES Magazine Online: Cobb Commission’s Map Defeat Means New Elections

  News, August 19, 2024

• JAMES Magazine Online: ANALYSIS: Trump, Kemp & the Ga. Election Board

  News, August 08, 2024

• JAMES Magazine Online: Reflections on the GOP’s Vice-Presidential Candidate

  News, July 18, 2024

• JAMES Magazine Online: State GOP Platform Outlines Key Trump-themed Positions

  News, July 12, 2024

• JAMES Magazine Online: Federal Judge Blasts, Sanctions Savannah DA

  News, November 03, 2023

• JAMES Magazine: U.S. Energy Secretary’s Georgia EV Snag

  News, September 15, 2023

• InsiderAdvantage: Lieutenant Governor Gets DEI Answers, Non-Answers

  News, July 06, 2023

• InsiderAdvantage: Dems, GOP Battle to Target Georgia’s New Voters

  News, September 15, 2022

• InsiderAdvantage: Yet Another Anti-Gang Bill to Be Considered

  News, February 18, 2022

• A Georgian Discusses Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation

  News, July 08, 2021

• Political Notebook: GOP Convention, Candidates, Endorsements

  News, June 03, 2021

• Legislation Moving That You May Have Missed

  News, March 05, 2021

• USG Administrator Says Government/Constitution Requirement Restored

  Features, May 21, 2020

  Several months ago University System of Georgia (USG) chief academic officer, Dr. Tristan Denley, floated a plan to reduce core courses students must take upon enrollment. It included abolition of the American government requirement— POLS 1101, which incorporates study of the U.S. Constitution and federalism. Yesterday, however, Denley made news.

• 2020 Election: Both Parties Look at “the Numbers”

  Features, November 21, 2019

  With another Democratic party presidential debate being held this week at the Tyler Perry Studios in Atlanta, focus naturally turns to Georgia and its importance in the 2020 election cycle. Is Georgia a “swing state” up for grabs? Both parties are “doing the math” after looking at turnout numbers to answer that question.

• More GOP Names Surface for U.S. Senate Appointment

  Features, October 03, 2019

  Over 500 Republican names have been submitted to Gov. Brian Kemp for consideration to be appointed to the U.S. Senate seat vacated by Johnny Isakson on Dec. 31.

• ATL to Hold Transit “District Downloads”

  Features, September 26, 2019

  The Atlanta Region-Transit Link Authority (ATL), mandated by state law to provide coordinated transit planning and funding for metro Atlanta, will hold 10 evening community engagement sessions dubbed “District Downloads.” The goal: Inform taxpayers about the expensive transit projects submitted to the ATL’s database as a part of its “Call for Projects” for inclusion in the ATL’s Regional Transit Plan (ARTP).

• Abrams v. Von Spakovsky on “Voter Suppression”

  Features, September 03, 2019

  Defeated 2018 Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams recently expanded her voting rights group to 20 competitive states to protect against threats of “voter suppression.” However, former Georgian and senior Heritage Foundation legal fellow Hans von Spakovsky declared before a Georgia Public Policy Foundation audience yesterday that “voter suppression is a myth.”

• Masters Rental Tax Bills Stirring Opposition

  Features, July 11, 2019

  Two bills that will be carried over to the 2020 General Assembly have various renters across the state up in arms, but resistance is especially strong at the home of the famed Masters golf tournament: Augusta.

• James Magazine 2019 Georgian Of The Year: Senator David Perdue

  News, March 08, 2019