UPDATE: Kemp, Georgia business leaders condemn Biden’s tax compliance agenda
ATLANTA - Gov. Brian Kemp followed Georgia business leaders Thursday in criticizing a crucial part of the White House’s proposed tax compliance agenda. President Joe Biden’s Americans Family Plan includes a tax compliance agenda, which would require banks and other...
Kemp uses trip to Texas border to call for action on illegal immigration
ATLANTA - Gov. Brian Kemp and nine other Republican governors have released a set of steps the Biden administration should take to combat the growing number of illegal immigrants flooding the nation’s southern border. Gov. Brian Kemp (right foreground) attends a...
Bourdeaux backing bill to support supply chains
U.S. Rep. Carolyn Bourdeaux ATLANTA - U.S. Rep. Carolyn Bourdeaux and two House colleagues introduced bipartisan legislation Wednesday aimed at improving the flow of goods and materials through supply chains. The bill would create a federal Office of Supply...
John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act introduced in U.S. Senate
Both of Georgia’s U.S. senators have joined 45 other Democrats to introduce the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act of 2021. Both the offices of Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock issued statements after the legislation, named after the legendary Georgia...
Fed report links vaccines to reduction in Georgia COVID cases
A new report shows COVID-19 vaccinations may have helped prevent roughly 5,100 new COVID-19 infections and 700 deaths among seniors in Georgia during the first five months of this year . The study, conducted by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS),...
Georgia Democrats criticize new online unemployment claims portal
State lawmakers and worker advocates shout, "Open up these doors!" during a protest outside the Georgia Department of Labor office in Atlanta on May 19, 2021. (Photo by Beau Evans) ATLANTA - An online portal the state Department of Labor has created to help Georgia...
Georgia ranks high in food deserts and insecurity, senators told
https://vimeo.com/551942790 ATLANTA – Georgia has one of the highest densities of so-called food deserts in the nation, several experts told a state Senate committee Tuesday. “One in eight Georgians face hunger, and one in seven are children,” the Atlanta Community...
Georgia Supreme Court sides with property owner over state DOT
The Nathan Deal Judicial Center houses the Georgia Supreme Court. (Photo by Beau Evans) ATLANTA - The Georgia Supreme Court upheld two lower court rulings Tuesday allowing a property owner’s lawsuit against the state to move forward. Cathy Mixon, who owns more than 18...