Georgia law offers homeowners a big tax break, but most probably won’t get much, if any, of it
ATLANTA - Across Georgia last November, voters heartily threw their support behind an amendment to the state constitution that sought to slow the escalation of property taxes. Two out of three voters favored Constitutional Amendment 1, which allowed communities to...
State awards five workforce housing grants
ATLANTA - Three cities and two local economic development authorities will receive more than $11 million in grants to help finance infrastructure improvements needed to service new housing. The latest grant recipients through the state's Rural Workforce Housing...
Federal judge considers order to protect foreign college students whose immigration status was revoked
ATLANTA - A federal judge in Atlanta is weighing whether to order the government to restore the immigration status of 133 current or former college students, 26 of them in Georgia, who recently received word that it had been revoked. Judge Victoria M. Calvert of the...
House Speaker Burns forms three study committees
ATLANTA - Georgia lawmakers will be focusing this summer and fall on some unfinished business left over from this year's General Assembly session. House Speaker Jon Burns Thursday announced the creation of three "blue-ribbon" study committees that will consider...
Georgia 400/I-285 interchange moving down bottleneck rankings
ATLANTA - The recently completed multi-year overhaul of Georgia 400 at Interstate 285 is starting to pay off. The heavily trafficked interchange has moved down the American Transportation Research Institute's rankings from the nation's ninth-worst freight traffic...
Georgia unemployment remains flat in March
ATLANTA - Georgia's unemployment rate held steady at 3.6% last month, six-tenths of a percentage point lower than the national rate. The number of jobs rose by 6,900 in March to 4.98 million. "Georgia's job market is full of opportunity, with nearly 5 million jobs and...
Sapelo Island conservation at stake in lawsuit over zoning
ATLANTA - The Georgia Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in cases that could decide in the near term whether large waterfront houses can be built on a sleepy island while in the long term reverberating far from the coast. The dispute is over the preservation...
University system sets spring enrollment record
ATLANTA - Student enrollment at Georgia's public colleges and universities reached 345,823 this semester, an all-time record for the spring, the University System of Georgia's vice chancellor of research and policy analysis reported Wednesday. The spring enrollment...