The Ron Show

As families make burial and/or memorial plans in Winder, Georgia, the ⁠Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) pinned the father⁠ of the 14-year old shooting suspect ⁠with an array of charges, including second degree murder⁠. We've learned more about the 2023 incident where a Jackson County (GA) sheriff's investigator visited father Collin and son Colt in 2023 - yet another "warning sign" that went...

You can tell we're desensitized by mass shootings when it doesn't take over your social media feeds. Such was the case yesterday when the U.S. largely went about its business as four were killed in a north Georgia high school at the hands of a 14-year old boy with access to an "AR style" weapon. You can hear the late-night ⁠GBI update⁠, with Governor Brian Kemp (for whatever reason) droning on wit...

Fox News is always gonna "Fox News" with antics from the likes of Jesse Watters (even 'judge Jeanine' gets turned off by him now and then), but they can't un-data their own data. Their ⁠latest polling shows Kamala Harris⁠ has caught (and likely surpassed) Donald Trump ⁠in key swing states⁠ and nationally. Ya know what? Those polls may actually under-sell her position, what with the ⁠surge in voter...

Governor Tim Walz ⁠stumped in Wisconsin at "Laborfest"⁠ while a rejuvenated President Joe Biden ⁠joined VP Kamala Harris in Pittsburgh⁠ on Labor Day rallying organized labor. Meanwhile, Donald Trump stewed on social media from Mar A Lago (with nothing on his calendar this week) and his VP pick, Senator JD Vance did as most Americans did and just enjoyed an "off-day." The contrasts couldn't be more...

The Harris/Walz bus tour is now in Florida, after putzing around southeast Georgia a couple days, but before they took off, they got to hang in a Savannah cafe for a bit to go two-on-one with CNN'S Dana Bash for the VP and her running mate's first interview atop the Democratic ticket. I likened it to a (painful, for this Falcons' fan) football game - it's "must win" and you have the lead and the b...

Atlanta Voice ⁠editor-in-chief Donnell Suggs spent a few minutes today giving me some sense what it's like to be working media on a Presidential campaign bus caravan. Plus, we get to go ⁠inside that packed, festive band room at Liberty High School⁠ to hear VP Kamala Harris and Gov. Tim Walz addressing current and future voters (and leaders). The fallout from the Arlington National Cemetery campaig...

It takes a big person to stop, collaborate and listen (sorry; had to) and thanks to frequent show guest Marilyn Marks, executive director at the ⁠Coalition for Good Governance,⁠ that's not all I've done when it comes to the Georgia Elections Board's antics of late; it's made me come to realize the "MAGA 3" are actually trying enact some policies and procedures to make election tabulating/canvassin...

Got to check in with my buddy Keith McCants, Bryan County Democratic Party chair, to see how excited folks in South Georgia are that VP Kamala Harris and Gov. Tim Walz will be doing a two-day barnstorming bus tour. We discussed Walz' appeal to rural voters and what "black jobs" appear to be to Donald Trump and more. Speaking of Cadet Bone Spurs, reaction was ⁠salty, swift and angry⁠ from many, upo...

The ⁠Harris/Walz South Georgia bus tour⁠ is on (where yet, is unknown) is on ... and the ⁠back & forth bickering⁠ between their camp and the Trump team ⁠about muted mics⁠ (it's wild ⁠who's for and against 'em⁠) in the upcoming ABC-hosted debate is, too. Former Trump national security advisor General H.R. ⁠McMaster is out with a scathing new book⁠, incidentally, which seems to couple nicely with Do...

If I'm being honest, Governor ⁠Tim Walz' speech⁠ was just "alright" ... in that I'd heard much of it before in prior stump speeches. Forgive me for being unimpressed; but his high school football teams' championship players and his wife and kids, Hope and Gus, made for spectacular accessories. In any event, I spent a good bit of time revisiting his and ⁠Oprah Winfrey's⁠ (eight years too late, in m...

Between former ⁠state senator Jason Carter⁠ (his "Paw Paw," former President Jimmy Carter waiting to vote for Kamala Harris), former ⁠First Lady Michelle Obama⁠ and ⁠Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff⁠, oh and that raucous "roll call" vote featuring ⁠Lil Jon for Georgia,⁠ day three of the Democratic National Convention was a show unlike any before it. Let's review the highlights together.

Janelle King, one of the maligned and newly-seated "MAGA 3" Georgia Elections Board members, ⁠panned the idea of insisting Georgia revert to using hand-marked paper ballots, ⁠saying "we are altering how the election is being conducted" - as if it say ditching Dominion machines is an unnecessary last-minute alteration Who says irony isn't dead? Despite concerns from the left and right about the pot...

Personal anecdote last night I was involved in a scuffle where a guest in our condo building got belligerent and unruly. He'd had a long day of drinking and was wandering the building and making some residents anxious and nervous. Some neighbors and I tried corralling him to guide him back to whatever unit he was staying in, and the guy got physical. My 8:45pm call to 911 likely caught it all on a...

It seems America's fixation with Donald Trump has worn thin; his shtick is no longer attracting record crowds or ratings, and in the month since Kamala Harris became his general election opponent, his approval numbers have plummeted. While the "Harris honeymoon" has shown few sings of abating, one thing seems apparent: the Harris-Walz campaign is content to "let Donald be Donald." Oh sure; they're...

Bankrate ⁠crowned Georgia the state with the highest "hidden" costs of car ownership⁠, recently. Here in Atlanta, you have to add "time spent in the car" as one of those hidden costs, given the gridlock we deal with getting to and from work or running our personal errands. Then you have Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens ... who has a pivotal role in whether the city (and region) take a forward-facing ap...

There have been any number of "(demographic subset) for Harris" Zoom rallies in recent weeks, but last night's ⁠"Republicans for Harris" Zoom gathering⁠ - which included former Georgia Lt. Governor Geoff Duncan - rallied more than 60,000 viewers. It was less about fundraising and more about preserving democracy and tabling policy divisions for future days to come. Okay, so there's a growing number...

I've tried not to spend too much time (personally or otherwise) on the audacious ⁠claims of "stolen valor"⁠ aimed at Governor Tim Walz by the (get this) Donald Trump presidential campaign. The ⁠"Cadet Bone Spurs" ⁠camp has something to say about military service, and - well - it's the one thing giving JD Vance relevance (or is it?) Even Georgia Insurance Commissioner John King ⁠felt the need to ch...

This week - and for the foreseeable future anyway - residential real estate agents & REALTORS will be altering the way they do business. ⁠CNBC's Diana Click explained why⁠ earlier this year, and a ⁠Chicago TV sit-down with a closing attorney and broker/agent⁠ sort of gives you a proper sense where (and why) the industry's changing. Did I mention I'm a residential REALTOR? Well I am, and I'm only t...

'Atlanta Voice' editor-in-chief Donnell Suggs⁠ joined me Friday to give us a sense where black voters' minds seem to be from his vantage point after a break-neck month of change. In particular, we discuss Donald Trump's disastrous sit-down at the National Association of Black Journalists' (NABJ) conference in Chicago. We share our thoughts on Donald's just-as-breathtaking press conference, and Don...

The Georgia Election Board - ⁠now with election denialists⁠ - ⁠wants to (again) look into Fulton County's 2020 "curiosities." ⁠Ya know what? I say go for it. As my (returning) guest today - Marilyn Marks (VP and executive director of the ⁠Coalition for Good Governance⁠) believes, I don't think there'll be a change in Georgia's outcome (and we know it wouldn't alter the Presidential outcome either)...

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz indeed was the choice VP Kamala Harris made (as I asserted should be the case back on July 29th) to be her running mate, and his first test - accepting and giving ⁠his first stump speech⁠ - didn't disappoint. [⁠Transcript here⁠] Well, the ⁠New York Times editorial board mostly approved⁠, anyway, but a raucous crowd of 12,000-plus in Philadelphia sopped it up. Near-immed...

Chitra Ragavan⁠, C-suite tech ⁠executive, strategic advisor, executive coach and award-winning journalist⁠, authored ⁠"Why Kamala Harris needs a 'competent' white man to win"⁠ for The Hill recently, and the headline drew me in. Naturally, I asked if she'd join me shortly before Kamala Harris chose a (more than) 'competent white man' in Tim Walz to be the VP nominee for the Democratic Party, which...

I won't filter my exuberance in watching as Donald Trump remains consistently "Trumpy," just as he was Saturday afternoon in the same - albeit less full - venue Kamala Harris held a raucous rally just days ago. Trump spent more time attacking Governor Brian Kemp - and Kemp's wife, Marty - than he did his ballot opposition, and local ⁠Republicans are anything from perplexed to flat-out livid⁠. Hear...

Kinda ... "curious" ... that Georgia's school superintendent Richard Woods took more than a week to ⁠reveal why he pulled state funding for AP African Americans studies⁠. Turns out its the state's two-year old ⁠"divisive concepts" law.⁠ What's funny about that is governor Brian Kemp - who signed the law - wasn't aware that was Woods' rationale. We know that because, remember, ⁠Kemp made a big publ...

When CNN's conservative stalwart says "He (Donate Trump) crapped the bed today," you know the former President managed to embarrass himself (if he had self-awareness, anyway) ... and that's definitively what happened at his sit-down with three black female panelists at the National Association of Black Journalists' (NABJ) gathering in Chicago Wednesday. Hear the blow-by-blow - with Trump immediate...