Bill Torpy

Bill M Torpy

R*****@hotmail.com — (402) 505-****

***** N 29th St, Apt 3, Ashland, NE

TORPY: Want to win bigly in court? Get jurors with MAGA hats

AJC.com - Wed, 16 Apr 2025

Election board serving up (yet) another helping of Trump’s Big Lie

AJC.com - Wed, 06 Aug 2025

TORPY: Atlanta’s drug bazaar is slowly on the mend, one house at a time

AJC.com - Mon, 24 Feb 2025

Bill Torpy’s Christmas village shows the soft side of AJC's resident Grinch

AJC.com - Mon, 09 Dec 2024

50 years after ‘Save the Fox,’ historic preservation still spotty

AJC.com - Fri, 20 Jun 2025

Surprise, surprise! Trump immigration crackdown hurts business

AJC.com - Wed, 18 Jun 2025

TORPY: Applaud Dickens’ side step on $250M Beltline bar-hopping ride

AJC.com - Wed, 19 Mar 2025

TORPY: Progress on Atlanta’s Tree Ordinance is like a slow growing oak

AJC.com - Mon, 24 Mar 2025

TORPY: An SOS from teachers — jail parents when Johnny goes ballistic

AJC.com - Wed, 14 May 2025

TORPY: One of the last Rosie the Riveters tells her place in history

AJC.com - Fri, 14 Mar 2025

TORPY: Hate leads the shouting hour outside progressive churches

AJC.com - Wed, 26 Mar 2025

TORPY: Slavery-apologizing Confederate history censor still honored at UGA

AJC.com - Wed, 07 May 2025

Readers write

AJC.com - Sun, 04 May 2025

TORPY: Keisha Lance Bottoms a dream candidate — for the GOP

AJC.com - Thu, 10 Apr 2025

OPINION: Sandy Springs ‘hate’ law could sabotage community newspaper

AJC.com - Mon, 07 Apr 2025

TORPY: Bikes, scooters and walkers collide in Beltline free-for-all

AJC.com - Fri, 25 Apr 2025

Should you scold other people’s misbehaving kids in restaurants?

AJC.com - Fri, 06 Jun 2025

TORPY: The new pope, Leo XIV, went from South Side Chicago to being named pope

AJC.com - Fri, 09 May 2025

OPINION: Data centers gobble electricity. Will ratepayers eat those costs?

AJC.com - Wed, 02 Apr 2025

TORPY: Letting kids go free range. Supporters say: ‘There oughta be a law’

AJC.com - Wed, 05 Feb 2025

TORPY: An elderly woman was brutally mauled in DeKalb. Why did it happen?

AJC.com - Mon, 19 May 2025

TORPY: Gov. Kemp employs the ‘tort reform’ squeeze on his own

AJC.com - Wed, 26 Feb 2025

TORPY: Yes, you can go home. But it might not be the same

AJC.com - Fri, 11 Oct 2024

Opinion: Bubble wrapping kids even in ‘hardscrabble’ North Georgia

AJC.com - Wed, 20 Nov 2024

TORPY: Georgia’s DEI bill is this year’s GOP swig from the ‘woke’ trough

AJC.com - Thu, 06 Mar 2025

OPINION: Andre Dickens set for second term shoo-in; it’s the Atlanta way

AJC.com - Wed, 12 Feb 2025

TORPY: DeKalb sewer woes, a stinky saga that’s played through the decades

AJC.com - Mon, 27 Jan 2025

OPINION: Lawsuit alleges more than dirt covers up a Piedmont Park sinkhole

AJC.com - Fri, 31 Jan 2025

TORPY: A tale of two failed transit votes. Or, ‘I’d rather just drive’

AJC.com - Mon, 18 Nov 2024

TORPY: Atlanta’s Corner of Death to get some new life

AJC.com - Wed, 11 Dec 2024

TORPY: A $32.5M ‘oops’ leads to death that might cost all Georgia cities

AJC.com - Wed, 29 Jan 2025

TORPY: Supreme Court lets hinky ex-judge off the hook

AJC.com - Fri, 22 Nov 2024

TORPY: Diversity in Georgia Legislature not all it’s cracked up to be

AJC.com - Fri, 17 Jan 2025

What’s in a name? Gov. Kemp and Coach Dooley’s son are about to find out

AJC.com - Fri, 01 Aug 2025

The Battery is an owner’s dream, but new life is emerging where Braves left

AJC.com - Fri, 18 Jul 2025

Bill Torpy: Full Walmart video disputes police account of child snatching case

AJC.com - Fri, 18 Apr 2025

TORPY: Atlanta watchdog warned about contractor. Will City Hall listen?

AJC.com - Mon, 02 Dec 2024

TORPY: Atlanta’s corruption watchdog in hot water for doing her job

AJC.com - Wed, 23 Oct 2024

Stone Mountain is going ‘woke,’ rebel sons complain

AJC.com - Wed, 09 Jul 2025

TORPY: Up, up and away! High times for Jimmy Carter and Neal Boortz

AJC.com - Wed, 08 Jan 2025

TORPY: Alleged child snatching case may not be what it seems

AJC.com - Wed, 09 Apr 2025

TORPY: Drone data is costing homeowners their insurance. Here’s how

AJC.com - Wed, 30 Oct 2024

Opinion: Inhumanity rules at Georgia’s prisons. But does anyone care?

AJC.com - Wed, 18 Dec 2024

TORPY: Young Thug walks as trial fizzles. Is that all there was?

AJC.com - Mon, 04 Nov 2024

TORPY: Gambling’s back. Sports betting would be a real loser

AJC.com - Wed, 15 Jan 2025

TORPY: Was Atlanta’s inspector general just too good at her job?

AJC.com - Wed, 19 Feb 2025

Atlanta officials learn, again, it’s hard to hold a crime spree down

AJC.com - Wed, 30 Jul 2025

Atlanta City Council gives Vincent Fort his flowers while he can still smell them

AJC.com - Fri, 06 Dec 2024

TORPY: Georgia’s Democrats still not quite ready for prime time

AJC.com - Fri, 08 Nov 2024

Clearing the homeless from downtown Atlanta: Sisyphus had it easier

AJC.com - Wed, 25 Jun 2025

A pivotal time for MARTA, or is agency too far down the track?

AJC.com - Thu, 24 Jul 2025

The huddled masses headed to ICE lockup this July 4th

AJC.com - Wed, 02 Jul 2025

TORPY: Y2K + 25 = swoosh, that was fast

AJC.com - Fri, 03 Jan 2025

TORPY: Red, White and Blueland? The ambient sounds of Trump bootlicking

AJC.com - Fri, 14 Feb 2025

TORPY: Cellphone ban in schools is a bid to prevent mush brains

AJC.com - Fri, 28 Mar 2025

Opinion: MARTA bans ads for lawyers and massage parlors. What’s the rub?

AJC.com - Mon, 13 Jan 2025

TORPY: MARTA and other transit ridership plummets. Is there a way back?

AJC.com - Wed, 27 Nov 2024

TORPY: Deliver 30 million meals? ‘No problem,’ says scammer in FEMA flop

AJC.com - Wed, 22 Jan 2025

Torpy: Uses for the vanishing penny? There’s 114 billion of them.

AJC.com - Wed, 04 Jun 2025

How dare we ask for transparency from Georgia’s parole board? Well, pardon me.

AJC.com - Mon, 16 Jun 2025

Disgraced judge becomes yardstick to measure bad conduct

AJC.com - Mon, 02 Jun 2025

Opinion: ‘Odor of mendacity’ hits prosecutor Fani Willis in Georgia Trump case

AJC.com - Fri, 20 Dec 2024

Opinion: Young Thug trial in Atlanta ends (again) with a whimper. At least for DA

AJC.com - Wed, 04 Dec 2024

Bill Torpy: I worked out 5 times a week for 35 years; here’s the written proof

AJC.com - Wed, 03 Jan 2024

TORPY: The case that helped kill Buckhead’s party, 25 years after Ray Lewis

AJC.com - Thu, 22 May 2025

TORPY: South Fulton mayor wants big raise. It might be combat pay

AJC.com - Fri, 25 Oct 2024

Opinion: Deliver 30 million meals? ‘No problem,’ says scammer in FEMA flop

Chattanooga Times Free Press - Wed, 22 Jan 2025

Alleged Ponzi scheme preyed on its own — ‘patriot brothers and sisters’

AJC.com - Wed, 16 Jul 2025

TORPY: The Young Thug trial continues–without Young Thug. Some jurors want out

AJC.com - Wed, 06 Nov 2024

Opinion: ‘Odor of mendacity’ hits Fani Willis in appellate ruling

Chattanooga Times Free Press - Sun, 22 Dec 2024

Lack of focus on MARTA projects has left Atlanta residents at a halt

AJC.com - Mon, 26 Aug 2024

Atlanta’s clogged roads bring out the rage in motorists

AJC.com - Fri, 04 Jul 2025

OPINION: Not everyone loves the Pop! Pop! Pop! of pickleball

AJC.com - Fri, 30 Aug 2024

Could Fulton County acquire the city detention center, at long last?

AJC.com - Thu, 21 Nov 2024

Opinion: The shoes finally come off TSA’s ‘security theater’

AJC.com - Mon, 14 Jul 2025

How metro columnist Bill Torpy presses on

AJC.com - Thu, 08 Apr 2021

Bill Torpy: For this couple, Memorial Day is also a happy anniversary

AJC.com - Fri, 26 May 2023

For DeKalb County family, a nightmare's silver lining | Torpy

AJC.com - Fri, 28 Jun 2019

Bill Torpy: Surgery brings forth the titanium-knee shuffle

AJC.com - Wed, 05 Apr 2023

OPINION: Are old folks looking younger? They are. Now, get off my lawn!

AJC.com - Wed, 18 Jan 2023

Georgia journalist's tribute to his son, killed by cancer | Torpy

AJC.com - Thu, 13 Jun 2019

DA Fani Willis and this attorney fought in court years ago. The replay’s a doozy Bill Torpy column

AJC.com - Mon, 15 Jan 2024

OPINION: The time I bought marijuana for my son in a Petco parking lot

AJC.com - Wed, 23 Mar 2022

Atlanta residents not in Buckhead fear crime too, but can't secede

AJC.com - Wed, 16 Jun 2021

Atlanta newspaper's new norm per COVID: a modern, minimalist newsroom

AJC.com - Mon, 26 Apr 2021

Atlanta’s “communications” mayor slips on some wet pavement Bill Torpy column

AJC.com - Tue, 04 Jun 2024

Cheshire Bridge Road out for 10 more weeks. Atlanta’s sad sequel Bill Torpy column

AJC.com - Fri, 05 Jan 2024

The amnesia outbreak at Young Thug’s Forever Trial in Atlanta Bill Torpy column

AJC.com - Fri, 12 Apr 2024

Bill Torpy: The privileged, transient warriors protesting police training center

AJC.com - Wed, 08 Mar 2023

OPINION: Sen. Ossoff whacks the complex, troubled pinata known as DFCS

AJC.com - Mon, 06 Nov 2023

OPINION: Downtown Atlanta visitor says experience ‘felt like a zombie movie’

AJC.com - Wed, 26 Jun 2024

OPINION: Losing a leg doesn’t keep man’s best friend from being ‘dogged’

AJC.com - Fri, 29 Oct 2021

Farewell, Atlanta Peachtree-Pine homeless shelter | Bill Torpy

AJC.com - Mon, 04 Dec 2017

Atlanta writer's brother, a builder, leaves legacy beyond lumber

AJC.com - Thu, 02 Feb 2017

Bill Torpy's Christmas village shows the soft side of AJC's resident ...

AJC columnist Bill Torpy shares his witty and entertaining take on the chaos and charm of holiday preparations, from untangling string lights to setting up a ...