A year after taking a buyout from Fox 5 as an investigative reporter, Randy Travis has decided to run for a City Council seat in Lawrenceville.
In November, he will face off against incumbent Austin Thompson, an engineer and operations analyst who is serving his first four-year term in office.
Travis, who came to WAGA-TV in 1990 and worked for the recently disbanded I-Team for 28 years, first caught the public service bug after joining a citizens review finance committee.
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The 63-year-old University of Georgia graduate has lived in Gwinnett County for 35 years, first in Snellville, then just outside of Lawrenceville for 24 years. Last year, he and his wife, Joan, purchased a home in Lawrenceville. His oldest daughter, he noted, also graduated from Georgia Gwinnett College in Lawrenceville…