State committee considers health-care delivery in wake of hospital closures
ATLANTA - Against the backdrop of hospital closures, state lawmakers Monday considered how to improve health care delivery across Georgia. The House Governmental Affairs Local Service Delivery Subcommittee meeting - chaired by Rep. Darlene Taylor, R- Thomasville...
Emory, UGA, Georgia Tech make U.S. News list of top universities
ATLANTA - Emory University ranks as the 22nd best university in the nation, while the University of Georgia and Georgia Tech are among the top 20 public universities, U.S. News & World Report announced Monday. Many of the schools ranked ahead of Emory on the...
Kemp outlines education priorities for second term
ATLANTA - Reversing learning loss stemming from the pandemic, boosting the education workforce and stepping up school safety measures will be Gov. Brian Kemp’s top education priorities if he wins a second term in November, Kemp said Monday. At an elementary school in...
GOP’s Nikki Haley stumps for Gov. Brian Kemp
ATLANTA - Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley hit the campaign trail Friday with Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, praising the Republican for reopening Georgia businesses during the pandemic earlier than most of his counterparts. “The courage we have seen from Gov. Brian...
Georgia lawmakers expected to consider boosting music industry tax credits
ATLANTA - Georgia’s film industry took off after the General Assembly significantly strengthened the state income tax credit for movie and TV productions in 2008. The industry’s annual economic impact has soared from a relatively paltry $242 million the year before...
University system Chancellor Sonny Perdue officially takes up new role
ATLANTA - Sonny Perdue has been a Georgia state senator, governor and U.S. secretary of agriculture. But not until Friday did the longtime public servant officially take on “maybe the most impactful job I’ve ever had” when he was formally invested as the 14th...
National mental health hotline prompts more calls from stressed Georgians
ATLANTA – About six weeks after it launched, close to 10,000 Georgians have called the new 988 mental health hotline seeking support. Rural Georgians, especially those in the southern part of the state, appear to be using the service in higher numbers than urban...
University system waiving standardized test scores for admission to most campuses
ATLANTA - The University System of Georgia will waive SAT and ACT test requirements at most of the system’s 26 institutions for another year, system Chancellor Sonny Perdue announced Thursday. The university system didn’t include the tests as an admissions requirement...