Friday is Crossover Day. For those playing at home, that’s the last day for a bill that originates in the House or Senate to be passed out of that chamber and passed to the other chamber in time for consideration (and passage) before Sine Die. It was generally assumed that casinos in Georgia was dead
From a press release: WASHINGTON: Today Congressman Doug Collins (R-Ga.) introduced H.R. 1316, the Prescription Drug Price Transparency Act, to protect taxpayers and the community pharmacists who serve them by requiring greater transparency from pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs). PBMs are the middlemen that employers and federal programs use to set formularies, or lists of drugs
Georgia Power is shelving, at least temporarily, plans to add additional nuclear power generating capacity at a proposed plant in Stewart County, just south of Columbus. Dave Williams of the Atlanta Business Chronicle brings the news: The PSC voted last summer to authorize Georgia Power to spend up to $99 million to cover the early
A familiar story: On this date in 1877, Rutherford B. Hayes was declared the winner of the 1876 presidential election by Congress. Samuel J. Tilden, however, had won the popular vote on November 7, 1876. Peaches House cannabis bill passes House, supporters hopeful it trumps Watson’s. Georgia is No. 2 in producing professional athletes Still no
The world’s largest study of congestion found rather disturbing results for Atlanta’s congestion. INRIX, which calls itself “the world leader in transportation analytics and connected car services” published its findings in the Global Congestion Ranking. We are the fourth-most congested city in the U.S., only eighth in the world and perhaps most worrisome: we don’t even
Yesterday, in the name of a cause that knows no party lines, Sen. Renee Unterman (R – Buford) and Sen. Gloria Butler (D – Stone Mountain) hosted sex trafficking awareness advocates to the Senate. The group included representatives from Georgia Cares, Street Grace, the United Way of Greater Atlanta, Out of Darkness, Wellspring Living, and City of
In Monday’s column, I referenced this piece by WJBF’s Anne Maxwell: It’s well worth a watch on it’s own. In it, it talks about how Richmond County schools (the City of Augusta) have many failing schools (despite the claims by district spox Kaden Jacobs that failing schools don’t exist post November’s election), but neighboring Columbia
As we mentioned way back when, sometime just before the New Year our Editor in Chief Jon Richards was diagnosed with cancer. He’s since spent about five weeks in the hospital and another four in a skilled nursing/rehabilitation facility. They managed to get him into fighting shape, and yesterday Jon was able to make a
“This Time They Told The Truth” by ZZ Hill. Georgians who crashed kids party and made racial epithets and death threats claim they would “never say” the words they said; sentenced to prison. My sympathy hovers around zero percent. Buckhead masterplan to allow more input on big ideas. Columbia Journalism Review: “It does not feel
President Trump’s Joint Address will air live here and throughout the internet tonight at 9:00 p.m. Take an opportunity to share your predictions, feedback, opinions, and/or righteous indignation on this huge occasion.
