State schools chief cites COVID-19 vaccine for saving his life
State School Superintendent Richard Woods (Photo by Beau Evans) ATLANTA - State School Superintendent Richard Woods was recently hospitalized with a serious case of COVID-19 despite having been vaccinated, Woods announced Tuesday in a written statement urging...
Georgia Supreme Court rules against election challenge in probate judge race
ATLANTA - The Georgia Supreme Court Tuesday rejected a challenge from an unsuccessful candidate for a probate court judgeship in Long County. Bobby Harrison Smith lost the election to Teresa Odum in June of last year by just nine votes - 1,372 to 1,363 – according to...
Georgia nursing homes seeking $347 million in federal COVID-19 relief
ATLANTA - Georgia’s nursing homes are looking for a share of the $4.8 billion in federal COVID-19 relief funds headed to the Peach State. The Georgia Health Care Association submitted a request Monday for $347 million from the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan...
Stone Mountain Park adopts new logo minus Confederate imagery
The new Stone Mountain Memorial Association logo STONE MOUNTAIN - The Stone Mountain Memorial Association took the next step Monday toward deemphasizing the Confederate symbolism that has made the park in DeKalb County a lightning rod. The association’s board adopted...
Four Georgia mayors take on Kemp’s no-virus mandates order
Coronavirus (Image: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) ATLANTA - The Democratic mayors of four Georgia cities are asking Gov. Brian Kemp to impose a mask mandate inside state buildings to show he is interested in the health of Georgians as well as the...
Interstate 14 project finds home in U.S. Senate infrastructure bill
Interstate 14 would run from Texas to Georgia. ATLANTA - A long-envisioned plan to build Georgia’s first interstate highway since the 1960s has gained new momentum. The $1 trillion infrastructure spending bill the U.S. Senate passed this month includes a provision...
Georgia unemployment drops to pre-pandemic level
Georgia Commissioner of Labor Mark Butler ATLANTA - Georgia’s unemployment rate fell to 3.7% last month, the lowest it’s been since the coronavirus pandemic began in March of last year. The state added 43,600 jobs in July, while the labor participation rate was 61.7%,...
Kemp to local governments: No COVID-19 mandates
ATLANTA - Gov. Brian Kemp issued an executive order Thursday prohibiting local governments in Georgia from imposing mask, vaccine or building-capacity mandates aimed at discouraging the spread of COVID-19. The cities of Atlanta and Savannah reinstated mask mandates...