Legislative committee recommends funding home- and community-based care for 2,400 more Georgians with disabilities
ATLANTA – Georgia should add 2,400 slots for serving people with intellectual and developmental disabilities in their homes and communities in next year’s budget, a state Senate study committee recommended Wednesday. “We’re looking at hopefully being able...
Raffensperger calls for doing away with general election runoffs
ATLANTA - Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger is asking the General Assembly to end general election runoffs in Georgia. Raffensperger’s proposal, released Wednesday, comes just more than a week after Democratic U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock defeated Republican...
New stamp to honor John Lewis
ATLANTA - The U.S. Postal Service will issue a stamp honoring the late civil rights leader John Lewis next year. The stamp will feature a photograph of Lewis taken in 2013 by Marco Grob on assignment for Time magazine, the agency announced Tuesday. The “selvage,”...
Federal prisons failed to prevent sexual abuse of female prisoners
ATLANTA – Federal prisons are failing to prevent and properly investigate sexual abuse of female prisoners, according to a new report released Tuesday by the U.S. Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. Male employees abused female prisoners in...
Georgia lawmakers recommend raising law enforcement salaries
ATLANTA - A legislative study committee voted Tuesday to recommend paying Georgia law enforcement officers a starting salary of $56,000 a year, the national average. The House State and Local Law Enforcement Salaries Study Committee also proposed that the state create...
Port of Savannah business declines for a change
ATLANTA - TheGeorgia Ports Authority saw a rare decline in activity last month. The Port of Savannah handled 464,883 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) of containerized cargo in November, down 6.2% compared to the same month last year. However, Savannah’s numbers...
State Department of Education identifies 175 low-performing schools for additional support
ATLANTA — The state Department of Education (DOE) has identified 175 low-performing schools that need additional support to improve student performance for the 2022-2023 school year. In good news, 57 schools exited the list for the year. This is the first...
As overdoses soar, so does demand for life-saving drug naloxone
ATLANTA – As overdoses have skyrocketed in Georgia – more than 13,000 this year alone, according to the state Department of Public Health -- so has demand for the life-saving drug naloxone, which reverses the deadly effects of an opioid overdose. People...