Georgia Democratic Rep. Mainor switches to GOP
ATLANTA - A Democratic state representative who was criticized by fellow Democrats for voting with Republicans during this year's General Assembly session has gone over to the GOP. Rep. Mesha Mainor of Atlanta announced Tuesday that she is turning Republican, adding...
Congressional Republicans introduce voting reforms in Georgia
MARIETTA - Congressional Republicans launched a bid Monday to adopt election reforms modeled after controversial legislation Georgia lawmakers enacted two years ago. Five GOP House members, including U.S. Rep. Barry Loudermilk of Cassville, introduced the American...
Overcrowded 5th Congressional District membership on DNR Board prompts replacement
ATLANTA - Gov. Brian Kemp has removed veteran Republican political operative Nick Ayers from the state Board of Natural Resources, citing an oversupply of board members from Georgia's 5th Congressional District. In an executive order Kemp issued late last week, he...
Early voting proving popular in Georgia
Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger discusses absentee voting in Georgia amid the coronavirus pandemic. (Photo by Beau Evans) ATLANTA - Georgians have taken to early voting in a big way. The Peach State ranked second in the nation for early voting last November,...
State mulling partial lifting of irrigation well moratorium
ATLANTA - The state slapped a moratorium on drilling new irrigation wells in large portions of Southwest Georgia in 2012, responding to a two-year drought that dried up one stream and significantly decreased flows in others. Now, the Georgia Environmental Protection...
Greene booted from House Republicans’ Freedom Caucus
ATLANTA - U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has been kicked out of the conservative House Freedom Caucus after voting to raise the nation's debt limit and making disparaging remarks about a fellow House Republican, The Daily Beast and other Washington, D.C.-based media...
UGA sells Lake Blackshear property to benefit forestry program
ATLANTA - The University of Georgia has sold the largest undeveloped parcel on Lake Blackshear to an undisclosed buyer for $18.5 million. The money will go to benefit UGA's Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources. The university received the 2,500-acre...
Limited Georgia Medicaid expansion launches this weekend
ATLANTA - Georgia Republicans have sought to go their own way in expanding Medicaid coverage for more than a decade since a U.S. Supreme Court ruling on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) passed by a Democratic Congress gave states that right. Now, the "Georgia-centric"...