Kemp urges patience amid slow COVID-19 vaccine rollout in Georgia
Gov. Brian Kemp asked Georgians for patience Friday as state officials push to distribute around 11,500 doses per day of the slow-arriving COVID-19 vaccine to health-care workers, nursing homes and people aged 65 and older in some parts of the state.
Ossoff, Warnock win U.S. Senate runoffs as Republicans concede
Georgia’s Republican senators have conceded defeat in the Jan. 5 runoffs for U.S. Senate, officially giving Democrats the state’s two Senate seats and control of the federal government for at least the first two years of the incoming Biden administration.
Georgia chief justice renews statewide judicial emergency
Georgia Chief Justice Harold Melton ATLANTA - Georgia Chief Justice Harold Melton Friday extended the statewide judicial emergency that has been in effect since the coronavirus pandemic took hold across the state in mid-March. Melton signed an order prohibiting jury...
2021 General Assembly: Key players
Here are key leaders in the Georgia General Assembly; House Speaker David Ralston, R-Blue Ridge: Elected the 73rd speaker of the House by his legislative colleagues in 2010, Ralston has served in the House since 2003, representing a rural district in Northwest...
Voting laws, criminal justice reform highlight 2021 General Assembly agenda
ATLANTA - Legislative leaders are promising to tackle two issues that dominated the news in Georgia and across the nation when the 2021 General Assembly session kicks off on Monday. Weeks of protests and legal challenges sparked by President-elect Joe Biden’s...
Jobless Georgians receive first checks from new federal stimulus package
Georgia Commissioner of Labor Mark Butler ATLANTA - The Georgia Department of Labor started paying out unemployment benefits last week through the new federal COVID-19 relief legislation even as a group of unemployed Georgians sued the agency to speed up checks. The...
Ralston not keen to end no-excuse absentee voting in Georgia
Georgia’s most powerful state lawmaker threw cold water Thursday on calls by some top Republican officials to eliminate no-excuse absentee voting after the 2020 election cycle.
Loeffler changes mind, supports certification of Biden victory
U.S. Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-Ga.) speaks at a campaign stop with Georgia First Lady Marty Kemp (center) and state Rep. Jodi Lott (right) at the Penley Art Gallery in Buckhead on Aug. 18, 2020. (Photo by Beau Evans) ATLANTA - Most of Georgia’s Republican members of...