The Marietta Register
Cobb County · Est. 2009
Full-time accountability reporting on every Marietta City Council meeting, every County Commission vote, and the public records that show how your tax dollars are spent — covered continuously since 2010 by reporter Marcus L. Webb.
Two investigations, two city hall corridors, one open-records request that took eleven weeks to fulfill.
Upcoming Marietta City Council and Cobb County Commission meetings on the desk's calendar — agendas posted as soon as the city releases them.
Council Chambers, 205 Lawrence Street NE. Agenda expected to include the second reading of the Powder Springs Road rezoning (postponed Oct. 9), the FY2025 sanitation contract, and a closed-session review of the Glover Park land swap.
100 Cherokee Street, 2nd Floor. Scheduled: SPLOST VI project reallocation, Cumberland CID expansion hearing continuation, and a presentation on the $890K body-camera sole-source contract (see Register investigation, Oct. 11).
City Hall Annex, 268 Lawrence Street NE. Three items: the mixed-use overlay at North Marietta Parkway, the historic-district façade amendment, and the long-contested duplex permitting text amendment covering Ward 5.
First Baptist Church of Marietta, 148 Church Street NE. Council Members to take public comment on the proposed $3.2M deck behind the Strand Theatre. No votes scheduled.
The Register sends the agenda, the prior meeting minutes, and any associated public records to City Hall Watch subscribers the morning of every meeting — usually before the city posts its own update.
Since January 2010, the Marietta Register has kept a full-time reporter assigned exclusively to Marietta City Council and the Cobb County Board of Commissioners. In that time we have logged more than 1,140 meetings, filed 740+ open-records requests, and built a public archive of more than 3,400 documents that any Cobb County resident can read, search, and download for free.
We do not accept story tips, talking points, or story drafts from the Mayor's Office, from Commissioners' offices, from their communications staff, or from any vendor whose contracts appear in our reporting. When the city closes a meeting, we tell you which statute it cited. When a vote is 4–3, we tell you the names. When a public record takes eleven weeks to come back, we tell you that too — and we publish the request itself.
This desk is part of the Register's 11-person newsroom and its 9 contributing reporters. It is reader-funded: roughly 78% of our 2024 budget came from the 13,200+ digital subscribers who pay to keep this coverage independent. If you read it, you should be one of them.
— Marcus L. Webb, Government Reporter
Member, Society of Professional Journalists · Georgia SPJ, 2017
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