New Georgia Senate map clears redistricting committee
ATLANTA - The Republican-led Georgia Senate Reapportionment and Redistricting Committee adopted a redrawn Senate map Friday Democrats and citizen activists criticized as partisan and rushed. The panel voted 9-4 along party lines to send a proposed map to the full...
New Geoff Duncan book has candid recipe for Republican success
ATLANTA - Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan isn't running for reelection. That means he's free to offer his opinions on former President Donald Trump and the Republican Party’s current political trajectory, which he's done in a new book entitled “GOP 2.0: How the 2020 Election...
Atlanta Braves celebrate World Series with massive parade in downtown, Cobb County
ATLANTA - Hundreds of thousands of people lined the streets of downtown and Midtown Atlanta Friday as the World Series-champion Atlanta Braves held a massive parade. The parade began at Five Points in downtown as World Series MVP Jorge Soler, face-of-the-franchise...
GOP legislative maps draw scrutiny during redistricting committee meeting
ATLANTA - The new legislative maps Georgia Republicans proposed this week are fair and provide multiple opportunities for minority representation, the chairman of the state Senate’s Reapportionment and Redistricting Committee said Thursday. But advocates for voting...
Georgia’s new daylight saving time law won’t stop switch to standard time
ATLANTA - Georgians turning back their clocks by an hour this weekend to begin observing standard time might be excused for thinking they don’t have to make the time change this year. But legislation the General Assembly passed last March adopting year-round daylight...
Georgia Senate race now a tossup, according to UVA Crystal Ball
ATLANTA – The Republican Party’s huge wins Tuesday in Virginia have shaken the national political landscape to such a degree that Georgia’s 2022 U.S. Senate race is now considered a toss-up. That’s according to the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. In the...
Georgia Republicans tee up new state Senate map
ATLANTA - It looks like a new state Senate map will be the first order of business for the General Assembly special redistricting session that convened Wednesday. The Georgia Senate Reapportionment and Redistricting Committee will hear testimony Thursday on a proposed...
Biden vaccine mandate is federal power grab, Kemp says
ATLANTA - Calling President Joe Biden’s COVID vaccine mandate for federal contractors “a big government power grab,” Gov. Brian Kemp said Wednesday the White House is attempting to turn employers into “the vaccine police.” “This is a recipe for financial disaster,”...