Bill Torpy

Bill Torpy, who writes about metro Atlanta for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, joined the newspaper in 1990. He writes the metro column and has covered politics, government and countless stories about police, courts, the justice system and humanity in general. The Chicago native graduated from Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Ill., and previously worked for the Daily Southtown in Chicago

Latest from Bill Torpy

The bitter battle to become Atlanta City Hall‘s second banana

The council president can be a bully pulpit, but it’s hard to be a bully. Because there’s no real power.

Labor Department’s anti-DEI campaign is Norman Rockwell meets Josef Stalin

The Labor Department's ad campaign, with numerous posters reminiscent of Russian propaganda, is part of a deliberate anti-DEI campaign being waged by the Trump administration.

Officers explain how the airport threats what went down

A mass shooting averted: Atlanta gets lucky, this time

Bill Torpy writes: "Atlanta narrowly avoided being the latest city where a heavily armed man with deep grievance makes strangers pay for his troubles."

The silver lining surrounding an ICE deportation

Bill Torpy: He wanted to live in Atlanta, but one Jamaican immigrant ends up in Uruguay.

Vernon Jones grabs his lance and hops on his pony — once again

Democrat-turned Republican Vernon Jones is mounting yet another campaign, this time for Georgia secretary of state.

The man who told you so about DeKalb’s indicted school superintendent

Tom Hayden’s work ended up being a road map for the FBI investigation.

Mayor Dickens big plan would ultimately cost taxpayers more

Dickens recently said he wants to extend the city’s tax allocation districts to fund revitalization in under-served neighborhoods. But schools and the city stand to lose.

Summing up ruling to oust judge: Liar, liar! Robe’s on fire!

The judicial panel apparently saw someone who doesn’t have the mettle to be a judge.

Downtown ATL holds ICE’s newest hellhole. Cruelty is the point.

Immigrants are being held for days in the basement of ICE’s Atlanta field office without beds, showers or access to lawyers. Twelve hours is supposed to be the limit.

Campus speech was under fire before Kirk’s death. Probably worse now.

The authors of a survey on free speech on college campuses say their work found an increasingly "“chilling climate for campus speech” in the United States.