Credit: Handout
Surprise, surprise! Trump immigration crackdown hurts business
Bill Torpy: Donald Trump's immigration crackdown is not good for busines.
Credit: File
How dare we ask for transparency from Georgia’s parole board? Well, pardon me.
Bill Torpy: Georgia's Board of Pardons and Parole, whose spots often go to political insiders serving a few years to round out a fat pension, operates in secrecy.
Should you scold other people’s misbehaving kids in restaurants?
Kids should be allowed to be rowdy - on the playground, in the pool, on the street or even in your own home, but not in a restaurant.
Credit: Courtesy of Karas Cahill
Uses for the vanishing penny? There’s 114 billion of them.
Pennies are going the way of 8-track tapes and 5-cent candy bars. A little nostalgia is in order, a stroll down the penny path.
Credit: Natrice Miller/AJC
Disgraced judge becomes yardstick to measure bad conduct
Sometimes justice is blind. And just plain wrong.
Credit: AJC 2003
TORPY: The case that helped kill Buckhead’s party, 25 years after Ray Lewis
The case's notoriety is often cited as the death knell for the rambunctious nighttime scene of perhaps 50 bars and clubs that made up Buckhead Village.
Credit: Courtesy
TORPY: An elderly woman was brutally mauled in DeKalb. Why did it happen?
Jane Sparks has endured at least four operations or procedures at Grady Memorial Hospital since the May 7 attack, her sister and niece said.
Credit: Miguel Martinez
TORPY: An SOS from teachers — jail parents when Johnny goes ballistic
The Georgia Federation of Teachers went to the state Capitol with proposed legislation that could fine or jail parents if their kid attacks a teacher.
Credit: St. Mary of the Assumption School
TORPY: From South Side Chicago baby boomer to ‘da pope’
Already the memes are flooding in — the first one had the new pope cradling a Chicago beef sandwich.
Credit: Charles Pugh
TORPY: Slavery-apologizing Confederate history censor still honored at UGA
The move to change the name of Rutherford Hall, named after a woman who attempted to whitewash the Confederacy and slavery, is met with silence.