2021 General Assembly: Key players
Here are key leaders in the Georgia General Assembly; House Speaker David Ralston, R-Blue Ridge: Elected the 73rd speaker of the House by his legislative colleagues in 2010, Ralston has served in the House since 2003, representing a rural district in Northwest...
Voting laws, criminal justice reform highlight 2021 General Assembly agenda
ATLANTA - Legislative leaders are promising to tackle two issues that dominated the news in Georgia and across the nation when the 2021 General Assembly session kicks off on Monday. Weeks of protests and legal challenges sparked by President-elect Joe Biden’s...
Jobless Georgians receive first checks from new federal stimulus package
Georgia Commissioner of Labor Mark Butler ATLANTA - The Georgia Department of Labor started paying out unemployment benefits last week through the new federal COVID-19 relief legislation even as a group of unemployed Georgians sued the agency to speed up checks. The...
Ralston not keen to end no-excuse absentee voting in Georgia
Georgia’s most powerful state lawmaker threw cold water Thursday on calls by some top Republican officials to eliminate no-excuse absentee voting after the 2020 election cycle.
Loeffler changes mind, supports certification of Biden victory
U.S. Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-Ga.) speaks at a campaign stop with Georgia First Lady Marty Kemp (center) and state Rep. Jodi Lott (right) at the Penley Art Gallery in Buckhead on Aug. 18, 2020. (Photo by Beau Evans) ATLANTA - Most of Georgia’s Republican members of...
‘Un-American’: Kemp, top Georgia Republicans condemn Trump riots in D.C.
Gov. Brian Kemp readied the Georgia National Guard Wednesday in response to riots at the U.S. Capitol by President Donald Trump’s supporters protesting the Electoral College vote.
‘We roared’: Georgia Democrats poised to flip the U.S. Senate
Democrats are on the cusp of occupying both of Georgia’s seats in the U.S. Senate for the first time in nearly 20 years, a momentous feat that would also give the party control of Congress and the White House.
Georgia Court of Appeals judge suspended with pay
Christian Coomer ATLANTA - The Georgia Supreme Court suspended state Court of Appeals Judge Christian Coomer with pay Wednesday after the former Georgia lawmaker was charged with misconduct. Coomer, a Republican, served in the Georgia House of Representatives for...