Exhibit A: Just saying: This speech from Speaker Ralston sounds an awful lot like a gubernatorial campaign speech. #gapol — Aaron Gould Sheinin (@asheinin) January 9, 2017 Exhibit B: Talk Among Yourselves.
Polls opened at 7a today for voters in SD-54 for a runoff race between Republican Chuck Payne and Independent Debby Peppers. It’s been a tight race in a normally conservative Republican district, but special elections are usually filled with intrigue. Peppers has been trying to throw allegations against Payne by posting an article from January
Because he’s Donald Trump’s nominee to head the department of Health and Human Services, and the author of the best plan with which to replace Obamacare, Kaiser Health News has set its sights on stopping Rep. Tom Price. With tactics that would make Joseph McCarthy blush and Joseph Goebbels beam with pride, Kaiser Health News
Good morning! If you have children at home, I hope for everyone’s sake that they’re back in school today – and that’s one more reason why we need to keep the Albany area in our thoughts, since school there won’t resume until January 17. Power outages are still widespread, and cleanup continues more than a
From a press release: ATLANTA (January 9, 2017) | The Senate Committee on Assignments has announced changes to its list of standing committee chairs and vice chairs for the first session of the 154th Georgia General Assembly: Sen. Brandon Beach (R – Alpharetta) will serve as chair of the Senate Transportation Committee. Sen. Ellis Black
From a press release received moments ago: “Republican candidate Roy Daniels, M.D. – a prominent physician from Cobb County – has officially entered the race for the Georgia State Senate in District 32 to replace Senator Judson Hill.” Described as a “fierce” critic of the Affordable Care Act, Dr. Daniels serves on the Cobb County
As we start a new year of necessary lawmaking, the upstanding members of our esteemed legislature had the plight of their pittance for legislative work highlighted on NPR. The fact is: our legislators have a right to gripe and the citizens should advocate for their raise. While there’s a de facto expectation that our legislature
An announcement was made today by Gov. Deal stating that Georgia’s net tax collections for December, 2016 totaled almost $2.06 billion, an increase of about $15.2 million (0.7%) from December, 2015. This brings the net tax revenue collections to $10.86 billion for the current 2017 fiscal year, which is up $414.4 million (4.0%) from last
This week’s Courier Herald column: The sound of a banging gavel signals the beginning of the forty-day legislative session of the Georgia General Assembly Monday, but the echoes of the November election are still reverberating over the din of activity. While much of Washington and even some factions within the state capitol are adjusting to
Theeeeeyy’rrrrreeee Baaaaaaaaack! It seems like just yesterday the gavel dropped Sine Die and everyone hurried off to Augusta, St. Simons, or anywhere else we/they could hide after 40 days under the Gold Dome. And yet, like Groundhog Day, here we are again. The Georgia House & Georgia Senate will gavel in at 10am. You can
