Kemp issues final public health emergency order for COVID-19
Georgia Public Health Commissioner Kathleen Toomey talks about coronavirus testing at a news conference on March 5, 2020. (Photo by Beau Evans) ATLANTA - Gov. Brian Kemp Tuesday issued what is expected to be the last statewide public health emergency of the...
Georgia Department of Labor sued over delays in unemployment claims
Georgia Commissioner of Labor Mark Butler ATLANTA - The Southern Poverty Law Center and an Atlanta-based law firm filed a class-action lawsuit Tuesday against the Georgia Department of Labor over unprocessed and unpaid unemployment claims. The suit, filed in Fulton...
Freshly to open second distribution center in Georgia
Georgia Commissioner of Economic Development Pat Wilson ATLANTA - Fresh-prepared meal delivery service Freshly Inc. is expanding its presence in Georgia. The company announced Tuesday plans to open a distribution operation in Clayton County. The $52 million investment...
Ossoff introduces solar manufacturing tax credit bill
U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff ATLANTA - American manufacturers of solar panels would benefit from a new federal tax credit under legislation introduced by U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff, D-Ga. “This legislation will bring more clean energy Jobs to Georgia while creating tens of...
Business group drops lawsuit over All-Star Game pullout from Georgia
Truist Park in Cobb County was to have hosted next month's All-Star Game. ATLANTA - A business advocacy group that sued Major League Baseball (MLB) for moving the All-Star Game out of Georgia dropped the case Monday, nearly two weeks after an adverse court ruling. New...
Kamala Harris takes COVID-19 vaccination push to Georgia
Vice President Kamala Harris ATLANTA - Vice President Kamala Harris brought the Biden administration’s “Month of Action” campaign for COVID-19 vaccinations to Atlanta Friday. After dropping by a vaccination site at Ebenezer Baptist Church, where Martin Luther King Jr....
Raffensperger launches new purge of Georgia voter rolls
Brad Raffensperger ATLANTA - Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger put 101,789 potential voters on notice Friday that they’re about to be purged from the state’s voter rolls. Other than the regular monthly removals of voter files for felony convictions and...
Unemployed Georgians facing cutoff of federal benefits
State lawmakers and labor advocates protest last month outside the Georgia Department of Labor office in Atlanta. (Photo by Beau Evans) ATLANTA - Georgia is about to join 25 other mostly Republican-led states in cutting off supplemental federal unemployment benefits...