The Ron Show

It was "the 300" (or more) mostly Atlanta citizens vs. their city council yesterday in a seven-plus hour long public comment hearing. Every person who came to speak about the proposed Atlanta police training facility spoke in opposition. Every. Single. One. I share a couple standout moments, and give this warning to Democrats: ignore this backlash locally at your party's peril, natio...

Who lets foxes guard hen houses? So why is Fulton Commission chair Rob Pitts nominating a Republican to chair the county election board - giving it a 3-2 GOP majority in a solidly "blue" county? Given all that occurred since 2020 ... this just cannot happen. Matt Gertz joined the show from Media Matters for America to discuss Fox News' upfront pitch to advertisers this week & wha...

About that town hall ... also, about Governor Brian Kemp snuffing out any notion of a special session to address gun violence. He claims Democrats were "posturing." The guy who aired a campaign ad sitting next to a teenage boy while holding a shotgun in his lap had the audacity to claim someone else was "posturing."

Wasn't a good day of news coverage if you're a Georgia Bulldogs' fan; the father of Devin Willock, killed in the auto accident stemming from street racing after the national championship celebration in Athens, is coming for a big sum of money - and may file to get more from the university. Plus, the athletic department can't get on the same page with The White House about a champio...

In the grand scheme of things, $5 million is chump-change for THE chump - found liable for sexual battery & defamation today. Does it affect his base of support? Pfft. Will it give GOP voters reason to pause? Ehh. Will the party elite wash their hands of him? C'mon. Secretary of State Antony Blinken was in town over the weekend; the highlight being his commencement speech at Georgia Tech&#...

Last week I noted a right wing pundit sneered at the idea that white supremacy is the nation's greatest domestic terror threat as he pointed out the ethnicity of the midtown assailant. Here's where I say "Allen and Brownsville, TX have now entered the chat." Speaking of Texas, with federal troops heading to the southern border and anti-immigrant crimes in headlines, today was a p...

Today was fun; I got to hang out with CNN producer, Kennesaw State professor & Anecdotal ATL creator & host Will Edmonds. DO follow @anecdotalATL on Instagram and/or TikTok and learn SO much Atlanta history that's not "textbook history" and get to know how it came to be and meet Will with me!

It might be easier to tell you what Clarence Thomas' "sugar daddy" Harlan Crow ISN'T paying on behalf of the justice and Ginni, his wife. ⁠More revelations revealed⁠ ; and ⁠Herschel Walker either conned a guy into being HIS "sugar daddy" too ⁠ or just committed wire fraud and broke campaign finance laws. Where IS he, by the way? There's a strain of smug dismissivism...

For nearly three hours today, midtown Atlanta was on lockdown, as yet another mass shooting took place in the heart of Atlanta. Hear instant reactions and information from Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens & police chief Darin Schierbaum.  We get a recap of the situation from  ⁠ Donnell Suggs ⁠ , editor-in-chief at the  ⁠ Atlanta Voice, ⁠  and have Rev. Senator Raphael Warnock's floor speech on...

"Southern. Gay. Teacher"⁠ author Randy Fair rejoins the show to discuss Georgia's efforts to whitewash terms like "diversity" and :inclusion" from state teacher prep jargon, plus the rise in anti-gay and anti-trans rhetoric orbiting public education. He recently wrote ⁠an eye-opening op/ed in Other Words⁠ that seems to indicate society is backsliding on treatment of LG...

Took a cheat day so you're getting a replay of the White House Correspondents' Dinner featuring President Joe Biden and The Daily Show correspondent Roy Wood Jr. Enjoy!

Local documentarian and journalist King Williams and I caught up on a Zoom to talk Cop City, MARTA, why Atlanta wasn't "it" for the DNC convention and if it's possible to generate Gen-Z & millennial enthusiasm for "Biden/Harris 2024." We're also on the same page with what the Hawks might ought to do with Trae Young. A second black trans Atlanta woman has been ki...

Friday promises to be a traffic & parking nightmare in downtown Atlanta with Taylor Swift AND Janet Jackson performing at adjacent venues; so why, when the Georgia Department of Transportation is having a little fun with their song titles to warn motorists & concert-goers, did they NOT mention MARTA as an "alternative?" So now that we've had a couple days to let the "Joe...

Marianne Williamson was a viral presidential sensation in 2020 before she bowed out in mid-January of that year. She's back, and one of only two challengers aiming to wrest the Democrats Party nomination from a sitting President. She joined me today to make her case.

Joe's running ... and so is Marianne Williamson. She's on the show, with me, in-person tomorrow, but let's hear Joe's pitch first. Then we'll hem and haw about the arduous task his campaign will have to win over American and Democratic voters who aren't warm to his re-election bid. Heidi Mirracle, Cherokee County parent, LGBTQ+ parent, and one of the brave folks who spoke o...

Ding dong, Tucker Carlson's gone; Media Matters for America's senior fellow Matt Gertz speculates - with me - what's next for Tuckums and Fox News. Don Lemon got whacked, too, and the "thing" folks are pointing to as the reason why doesn't really add up. I'll explain. So it turns out there were MULTIPLE Cherokee County residents and parents of current and former schoo...

Micah Herskind is a writer & activist, and his Twitter account is one of the most thorough when it comes to the "Cop City" saga, so I had him on today to review everything we know (and what we've been lied to about) in that regard. Governor Brian Kemp's  ⁠ choosing to whine about what Senators Ossoff and Warnock aren't able (yet) to do ⁠  - and don't need to until 202...

The Dekalb County autopsy on Manuel Paez "Tortuguita" Teran found no gunpowder residue on his hands or body; kinda weird given that he's the one police and police investigators say fired from inside his tent shortly before being deluged with more than 50 bullet wounds from head to torso, arms, hands and legs. Just another chapter in the inability for pro-APD training facility folks t...

Will Atlanta local media EVER recall a Cherokee County School Board member was booted from a convention for using an anti-gay slur (f*ggot) and shouted anti-trans venom to a trans person? Well, the board meets tomorrow night, so I did a little refresh of the story, and started "at" tweeting media personalities who covered it when it was breaking news in early April but who've not cov...

As I went to tape today's show, I already had Andrew Lawrence on the line from Media Matters for America to discuss the Dominion v Fox News case - JUST as word got out a settlement had. been reached. So half the show is our reacting to it, and covering a host of other hot topics, including why the Clarence Thomas story isn't a bigger saga in media of any kind, and the lack of traction on t...

Thank goodness for the Braves & Dawgs, because Georgians have to be flat-out embarrassed, otherwise, with public figures from Georgia like Marjorie Taylor Greene and Clarence Thomas. Clarence - a Supreme Court Justice - can't seem to follow ethical guidelines, but gets to be one of the nine "end all be all" voices on legal matters? His latest? Not reporting income he and his wife...

New polling for Georgia's GOP presidential hopefuls and Trump's STILL in control, so far. Y'all know I love diving into polling, so I jumped right in. Blis Savidge from Georgia Innocence Project joins me to tell us what GIP does and how wrongfully convicted Georgians are still being screwed over by the state - with a familiar GOP name the giant clog in the pipe. Then, the latest Claren...

Today's a bit of a recycling effort; we've had some glitches getting the show to AmericaOne Radio this week but with insightful conversations with Reason Magazine's Joe Lancaster (covering Georgia's heavy backing of a Rivian that's hemorrhaging cash ) and Georgia WIN List's Melita Easters, on to discuss Mifepristone, Cop City & more, I felt compelled to make sure they w...

Tim Scott's in ... sort of. He's against "weaponizing" race, so allow me to "weaponize" RACISM and let ya eavesdrop on a former Georgia high school football coach - who has trained several NFL players - as he videos himself spewing jawdroppingly racist crap while visit Atlanta recently. He sent these videos to a friend or friends thinking it was funny. Not kidding. Geor...

Melita Easters, Georgia WIN List executive director and frequent pundit from FOX 5's The Georgia Gang, joins me today to discuss a range of topics - from mifepristone to Cop City, Fani Willis, the lost DNC convention bid, &even a local anti-trans school board member.