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Yahoo
30-03-2025
- Business
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Roswell selects firm to design, build new parking deck in historic downtown district
The City of Roswell is one step closer to making a parking deck a reality in downtown. The Roswell City Council unanimously approved a design-build contract for the parking deck worth over $14.4 million this week. Winter Construction will handle the design and construction of the new deck, which will be located in the historic downtown district at the corner of Green Street and Highway 9. The city anticipates it will be completed by the summer of 2026. Winter Construction was one of nine firms that submitted proposals for the new deck. The parking deck will sit on the former site of the historic Roswell Masonic Hall. The building, one of the oldest in Roswell, was built in 1859. Originally, it was a Methodist Church before the Masonic Lodge took it over and renovated it in 1952. The city used eminent domain to claim the lot so it could be converted into a pedestrian plaza and parking deck. [DOWNLOAD: Free WSB-TV News app for alerts as news breaks] TRENDING STORIES: Rapper Young Scooter dies after running from Atlanta police, reports say North Georgia man accused of stealing $14 million from his job Metro Atlanta shattered the 35-year record for the highest amount of pollen today [SIGN UP: WSB-TV Daily Headlines Newsletter]
Yahoo
21-02-2025
- Politics
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GOP Rep. Rich McCormick Faces Furious Locals in Town Hall Event Gone Wrong
The Georgia Republican who recently told CNN that school kids should be sent to work to earn school lunches was met with outrage and fury from residents at a town hall meeting on Thursday night. Rep. Rich McCormick announced last week that he would be hosting an in-person constituent town hall at Roswell City Council. On Thursday night, lines overflowed outside the town hall, and Atlanta Journal-Constitution reporter and NBC News contributor Greg Bluestein was on hand to capture the events as they unfolded. It got heated quickly over McCormick's support for the sweeping federal budget cuts made in recent weeks by Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). According to Bluestein, who posted numerous videos to X, McCormick faced boos and 'catcalls' as residents pushed back on Trump's erratic governing style. In his article for AJC, Bluestein reported 'hundreds of critics' descended on the meeting and that McCormick's staff 'seemed caught off guard' by the sheer force of the pushback. Crowd members shouted 'we're pissed' and 'don't bend over,' according to NBC News. In one video, a resident called out McCormick for 'doing us a disservice' and 'not standing up for us.' McCormick replied: 'If you all are just going to yell at me, that's not going to be an effective comment.' A representative for McCormick did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the Daily Beast. In another video, the moderator cuts off the crowd and pleads for the audience to be respectful. 'We're all trying to get through this,' he says. In another video, one resident questions McCormick, saying, 'it's clear from all the writings of our Founding Fathers that our great republic was never meant to be ruled by a dictator or a king.' The comment was greeted by a large round of applause. 'So you can imagine my shock and pure horror when I woke up to find that our president had given himself unprecedented executive powers and then in a few days named himself King to his followers,' she continued to more applause, before being prompted to ask a question. 'Tyranny is rising in the White House and a man has declared himself our king, so I would like to know, rather, the people would like to know, what you, congressman, and your fellow congressmen are going to do to reign in the megalomaniac in the White House?' The woman received a standing ovation. 'When you talk about tyranny, when you talk about presidential power, I remember having the same discussion with Republicans when Biden was elected,' McCormick replied, to a chorus of boos, including screams of 'come on.' McCormick then brought up the Jan. 6 insurrection, before another shocked response from the crowd. 'Shame, shame,' they shouted. McCormick tried to move on but the crowd demanded answers. 'If you stop yelling, I will answer,' McCormick says. 'The REINS Act, which reigns in executive powers for both parties—whoever is in power—and I think it can be tweaked actually to be much better. I don't think executive privilege should be as strong as it is. I think we're out of balance right now," McCormick said. 'I don't want to see the president make all the decisions, I don't,' McCormick said, despite pleas from the crowd that he wasn't answering their questions surrounding Trump's 'king' comments. 'Do you not want to hear that I just said, I answered it directly, I said I don't want to see any president too powerful.' McCormick blamed the failure of the passing of the REINS act on the Biden administration and 'democratically-controlled Senate.' McCormick said the crowd were 'all screaming at me' and 'I'm telling you how you solve this, and you're saying no we don't want to hear that.' At one point a crowd member screamed: 'We want to work with someone better!'
