Medical technology company expanding in Georgia
Gov. Brian Kemp ATLANTA - A pioneer in robotic-assisted surgery is expanding its presence in Georgia with an investment of more than $500 million that will create about 1,200 jobs, Gov. Brian Kemp announced Wednesday. Intuitive will add to the approximately 180...
ACLU takes aim at absentee ballot provision in Georgia’s new election law
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger ATLANTA - A civil rights group Wednesday criticized Georgia’s new absentee ballot form as an invasion of privacy. Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger unveiled the new ballot on Tuesday. Based on the controversial...
University System of Georgia won’t mandate masks, shots for coronavirus
Coronavirus has sickened hundreds of thousands people and killed thousands more in Georgia. (Image: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) ATLANTA - The University System of Georgia is stopping short of requiring students returning to classes during the next...
Georgia labor unions going to bat for U.S. Senate infrastructure bill
ATLANTA - Three Georgia-based labor unions are getting behind the nearly $1 trillion infrastructure bill now being considered by the U.S. Senate. In a letter late last week to Republican members of the state’s congressional delegation, executives from the Atlanta...
Ossoff-backed bill aimed at promoting rooftop solar panels
ATLANTA - U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff, D-Ga., introduced legislation Tuesday aimed at making the installation of rooftop solar panels more affordable for American businesses and homeowners. The RAISE the Roof Act (Revamping Appropriate Incentives for Solar Energy) would...
U.S. Senate infrastructure bill to benefit MARTA expansion
The U.S. Senate infrastructure bill could help fund MARTA's plans to build bus-rapid transit lines. ATLANTA - The nearly $1 trillion infrastructure bill now before the U.S. Senate would be a good fit for public transit in Georgia, officials with Atlanta’s MARTA bus...
Duncan pitches new political nonprofit to business group
Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan (Photo by Beau Evans) ATLANTA - Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan is leaving elective office next year to try to restore bipartisanship to the search for solutions to the problems facing America, the Republican from Cumming told a business audience Monday....
Gary Black first Republican Senate candidate to take a shot at Herschel Walker
Gary Black ATLANTA - Georgia Agriculture Commissioner Gary Black is telling University of Georgia football icon Herschel Walker to put up or shut up in next year’s Republican race for the U.S. Senate. Walker, former President Donald Trump’s pick to challenge incumbent...