Georgia Power rate hike request draws pushback from public
ATLANTA - Georgia Power customers can ill afford a nearly 12% rate increase at a time rampant inflation is making it harder to buy food and fuel, more than a dozen witnesses told state energy regulators Tuesday. “I’m tired of seeing companies making record profits …...
Asian American Pacific Islander lawmakers form caucus in General Assembly
ATLANTA - Asian American Pacific Islander members of the General Assembly have formed the legislature’s first AAPI caucus. When the 2023 legislative term starts in January, Georgia will have the most AAPI state lawmakers in the nation. “As the first Asian American...
Georgians set early voting record
ATLANTA - Georgia voters are destroying the old political adage that runoff elections are plagued with low voter turnouts. More than 300,000 Georgians cast ballots Monday, the first day of statewide early voting in the runoff contest between Democratic U.S. Sen....
Georgia Senate Democrats reelect Gloria Butler minority leader
ATLANTA - State Senate Democrats reelected their top leadership team Monday. Sen. Gloria Butler will return as Senate minority leader during the 2023-24 legislative term starting in January. “I am honored and humbled that my colleagues in the Democratic Caucus have...
Warnock Senate campaign leading nation in fundraising
ATLANTA - Georgia’s overtime U.S. Senate campaign has made Democratic incumbent Sen. Raphael Warnock the leading Senate fundraiser in the nation. The Warnock campaign had raised more than $175 million through Nov. 16, according to a report filed with the Federal...
Walker, Warnock clash over character and competence in final stretch of long campaign
ATLANTA – Georgians get one more chance to decide whether they want to return Democratic U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock to Washington or replace him with Republican Herschel Walker in the upcoming Senate runoff. After neither candidate earned more than 50% of...
Georgia Supreme Court reinstates abortion ban
ATLANTA – The Georgia Supreme Court reinstated Georgia's law banning most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy Wednesday just over a week after a lower court judge had blocked the law from taking effect. Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney had...
Georgia Supreme Court OKs early Saturday voting
Georgia Supreme Court (Photo by Beau Evans) ATLANTA - Georgia Republicans have run out of options in their bid to block early Saturday voting ahead of the Dec. 6 U.S. Senate runoff between incumbent Democrat Raphael Warnock and Republican challenger Herschel Walker....