Monday Oct 3 2011 Events 

Fall Term of the US Supreme Court is underway ... already decisions on selling 2nd-hand software and giving away drone secrets, allowing previous decisions to stand.  Next cases include TV indecency and we're waiting on when the high court may schedule a challenge to the new federal health care law's invidual mandate.

Georgia Pardons and Paroles Board to hear plea for mercy from Marcus Ray Johnson, scheduled to die Wednesday night for the 1994  murder of an Albany woman he stabbed 41 times after raping her.\

Today is first day on the job for new Grady Hospital System CEO John Haupert, who comes from a massive public hospital in Texas.

Wall Street protests enter a 3rd Week.

Watching for usage of new I-85 HOT Express toll lanes. 

Tomorrow on Atlanta's Morning News:  putting the pencil to Herman Cain's 9-9-9 economic recovery plan, calling for a 9% flat income tax, 9% corporate income tax and a national 9% sales tax.  Can it work?