Cobb Commission to decide on transit projects for the 2024 vote ajc.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from ajc.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
On Tuesday, the Cobb Board of Commissioners is scheduled to vote on the proposed project list for the 2024 transit tax referendum, estimated to collect about $11 billion over three
Asked if they are likely to support a 30-year program to expand transit and build a new rapid bus system in Cobb County, 63% of voters said they likely would,
the two-time national book award nominee and berkeley professor emeritus is best done for his outspoken social commentary. his work includes mumbo jumbo, flight to canada and reckless eyeball. his most recent nonfiction is mixing it up. host: in your book writin is fightin , you write this, if i had to compare my writing style with anyone, it would probably be with that of larry holmes. i don t miss my words, nor do i pull any punches, though i delivered. guest: it s pretty long uest:hor. i think larry holmes wouldn t object to the reference low blow. i think he probably hit above t the waist. but i think a number of people have compared writing toompared fighting. e te matter fact i got theng tem from although i give the credit for the the term comes fromammad muhammad ali and i m writing sort of a biography which i started in 2003. excuse me, 2003. so when he wrote a book called the greatest. it was ghosted by another person. he said writing is fighting. host:
guest: that s a long metaphor. i think that s what larry holmes objects to the reference of low blows. he hits above the waist most of the time, but, yeah, a number of people compared writing to fighting, and sphaft, i got the as a matter of fact, i got the term although i get the credit for it, the term comes from mohamed ali, and i m writing about him right now that i started in 2003, so when he wrote a book called the greatest where it was ghosted by another person, someone said how are you going to write a book? he said writing is fighting, so that s where i got the term from. host: you go on in the book to talk about african-americans, and you write that a black boxer s career is the perfect metaphor for the career of a blake male. every day is like being in the gym sparring with impersonal opponents as one faces the rudeness and hostility that a blake male must confront in the u.s. where he has the object of both fear and fascination. guest: yeah, well, i re