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  • 3 days ago | ledger-enquirer.com | Bill Torpy

    A loud cheer erupted in the hallway of the JW Marriott in Buckhead where hundreds of women lined up for entry into the Phoenix Ballroom. I couldn't see through the throngs of people, but I would later learn that the high-pitched screams, the kind which are generally reserved for musicians or movie stars, were instead offered to a writer of women's fiction.

  • 3 days ago | ajc.com | Bill Torpy

    When I read the lowly penny was set for extinction, I got melancholy thinking of what would no longer be. First, kids will not know the excitement of putting pennies on train rails and eagerly waiting a train to turn official U.S. tender into flattened art. Nor would they know the joy of sticking gum on the back of a penny before inserting it into a gumball machine’s coin slot, allowing the coin to turn around and around.

  • 5 days ago | ajc.com | Bill Torpy

    In the dog-eat-dog world of the legal profession, Christian Coomer would be considered a purebred and Johnbull Nwosu a mutt. Coomer is a former Republican majority whip in the state House and a U.S. Air Force judge advocate who capped his career on the bench of the Court of Appeals of Georgia.

  • 2 weeks ago | ajc.com | Bill Torpy

    The murder case against NFL phenom Ray Lewis was the Trial of the Century — that is, when this century was just a few months old. Twenty-five years ago this month, a raucous legal drama played out in a Fulton County courtroom and on Court TV. It ended with the prosecution imploding and the families of two dead men sobbing and saying justice was blind.

  • 2 weeks ago | macon.com | Bill Torpy

    Jane Sparks was curious about the large wooded property around the corner from her DeKalb County home. For years, her neighborhood had locked horns with developers about the future of the 35 acres and the Spivey family sold it last fall after 160 years of ownership. The petite 79-year-old woman traversed a long dirt path onto the property off Norman Road but stopped, sensing something was off. She turned around to leave but was quickly set upon from behind by a pack of growling dogs.

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Bill Torpy
Bill Torpy @billtorpy
14 May 25

#Teachers say their school systems don’t back them up. An SOS from teachers — jail parents when Johnny goes ballistic. https://t.co/pcEXi1VjQm

Bill Torpy
Bill Torpy @billtorpy
10 Mar 25

It was a sanctimonious, finger-waving tour de force of backbiting progressivism: A horde of outraged, well-to-do, educated, in-town white folks publicly performing their indignation for other well-to-do, educated, in-town white folks. Y’know, the Bubble. https://t.co/nLvUiadVhH

Bill Torpy
Bill Torpy @billtorpy
1 Mar 25

From left: @JDVance @realDonaldTrump https://t.co/mdFJZyePIZ