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Fair Fight Kicks Off Statewide Tour To Push Early Voting "Gold Standards" In Georgia
The voting rights organization began a statewide tour, as it teams up with state and local leaders to press to extend early voting hours.
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Court Ruling Puts Utility Regulator Races Back On The Ballot; Georgia Plaintiffs Eye Appeal
Two statewide races are back on the November ballot, after a federal appeals court blocked a lower court's ruling.
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Rising Costs Deliver Extra Pain For Back-To-School Shoppers This Year
Nearly all of Georgia's public school students are back at their desks this week, as the bell rings on a new school year.
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Popular Music Festival Cancellation Redolent Of Republicans' Misplaced Priorities, Among Them, Guns
“The cancellation of Music Midtown will cost Georgia's economy $50 million,” says Stacey Abrams, the Democratic candidate for governor.
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EPA Action Boosts Grassroots Momentum To Reduce Toxic ‘Forever Chemicals' In Rome, Ga.
The intake pumps that once drew 6 million gallons of water a day from the Oostanaula River now sit mostly dormant in this northwest city.
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Farmers Have Silently Struggled With Their Mental Health For Years -- Are They Ready To Talk?
Drew Echols doesn't remember ever talking with his father about mental health. Or his grandfather. In fact, he doesn't remember at all.
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Ga., Congressional Members Promote Jobs, Infrastructure Plans To State Business Leaders
Members of Georgia's congressional delegation called for a more united front to support the economy, amid inflation and bitter tensions.
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Biden Administration Suspends Kemp's Health Care Plan, Months Before Planned Start
The Biden administration followed through, and suspended Georgia's plan to bypass healthcare.gov, blocking the state's alternative program.
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State Legislators Preparing For Session Shaped By New Abortion Law
When Georgia lawmakers return to the Capitol in January, it will be their first time convening since the end of Roe v. Wade.
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Travis McMichael, Greg McMichael Get Federal Life Sentences For Hate Crime In Arbery Killing
The Arbery family's quest for justice "revealed troubling delinquencies in Glynn County’s law enforcement system," the report indicates.
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Georgia's Anti-Abortion Law Could Again Be Temporarily Blocked
A Fulton County judge could soon decide whether to once again temporarily block Georgia's six-week abortion ban.
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Georgia Lawmakers Seek Solutions To Homelessness After Criminalization Bill Stalled
A state Senate study committee heard from nonprofit and state agencies about the homelessness problem, at a meeting across from the Capitol.
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Court Rules Georgia's Statewide PSC Elections ‘Dilute' Black Voting Power
Voting rights activists celebrated after a judge struck down the state's at-large method used to elect Public Service Commission members.
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Abrams Campaign Continues To Fight "Politically Motivated Probes" From Republican Majority Board
David Emadi, executive secretary of this "committee" investigating Ms. Abrams, is a Kemp donor, the report states.
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Kemp Extends Georgia Gas Tax Break Into Mid-September, As Pain At The Pump Eases
Georgians will continue to fill up their tanks without paying the state fuel tax for at least another month, Kemp's office announced.
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Warnock Optimistic On Priorities Of Drug Price Negotiation, Premium Tax Credits
U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock said he has been assured that two of his health care priorities are in the Senate's climate, health, and tax bill.
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Abrams Campaign Faces Inquiry, Accusations Leveled By "Republican Majority Board"
The state ethics commission hired David Emadi, a Brian Kemp donor, as part of the investigation; Kemp is Abrams's opponent in November.
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Probe Of Coffee County's 2020 Election Conduct Revives Georgia Voting Machine Lawsuit
A long-running federal lawsuit challenging the security of Georgia's voting system is once again entangled in a dispute.
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Kemp Grants More Federal COVID Relief Cash For Georgia Teachers To Shop For Supplies
Georgia teachers will soon be heading back to their classrooms with some extra cash for supplies.
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Powerful State Lawmakers To Recalculate Georgia's Politically Fraught School-Funding Math
When Georgia lawmakers created the formula to pay for its public schools, Ronald Reagan was celebrating the start of his second term.