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ATLANTA — Republican lawmakers have pushed through numerous changes to Georgia’s voting system in recent years, reacting to a concern, mostly among conservatives, that lax security produced stolen ...
Testimony Thursday revealed a similar tax policy for vaping. Georgia and 32 other states plus Washington, D.C., have a vape tax policy, said Danny Kanso, an analyst with the Georgia Budget and Policy ...
Hubbard defeated former Atlanta City Councilwoman Keisha Sean Waites with 58.2% of the vote to 41.8% for Waites in Tuesday’s runoff election, according to unofficial results. He will face incumbent ...
Kevin S. Murdock, former CEO and owner of the now-defunct laboratory Premier Medical, Inc. agreed to the terms, acknowledging he was likely to lose in a lawsuit brought against him by the federal ...
ATLANTA — Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr launched an attack against his Republican primary opponent for governor Thursday, calling for an investigation of Lt. Gov. Burt Jones’ $10 million loan to ...
Steve Gooch, a Dahlonega Republican who recently stepped down as the Senate’s majority leader, raised $1 million. John F. Kennedy of Macon, who outranked Gooch as the Senate’s president pro tempore ...
Data centers have exploded so quickly that elected officials in DeKalb, Coweta, Douglas, and Bartow counties have imposed moratoria on new projects. The Atlanta City Council voted last month to ...
ATLANTA – The “Big Three” bond rating companies again have given Georgia the highest rating of AAA, praising the state’s commitment to fiscal responsibility and record of economic growth and job ...
Ocmulgee is among 370 lesser properties overseen by the National Park Service. It draws around 160,000 a year, but national park status could increase that nearly tenfold to almost 1.4 million annual ...
ATLANTA – Georgia energy regulators Tuesday unanimously approved Georgia Power’s plan to keep burning coal and gas to generate electricity, a move critics warned will increase rates to meet the ...
ATLANTA – The number of jobs in Georgia topped 5 million last month for the first time in history, the state Department of Labor reported Thursday. Georgia’s unemployment rate, meanwhile, held steady ...