To the question “Shall the Constitution of Georgia be amended to allow the state to intervene in chronically failing public schools in order to improve student performance?” Georgia’s State Board of Education unanimously says “yes.” Apparently they understand that if it’s broke, you’re supposed to fix it. From the release: “The State Board of Education is
Down here in rural Georgia, I spend my days cracking open local governments in an effort to shed light on what’s going on behind closed doors. Most days, people come to me with tips, and today someone came to me with an email chain that could quite possibly change the course of some pending litigation
Double dipping on taxpayers and, sometimes, insurance companies. That’s what some fire departments are doing according to a recent Fox5 i-Team investigation. And Insurance Commissioner Ralph Hudgens is aware of it. It appears that fire departments around the state of Georgia, though funded through state and county taxes, are sending people bills for service after
When it comes to beer, Georgians can no longer say, “Well, thank goodness for Mississippi!” With the passage of pending legislation that is the result of negotiations between the Mississippi Brewers Guild and the Mississippi Beer Distributors Association, craft breweries in Mississippi will be allowed to sell their beer directly to their customers, which leaves
Complaints from constituents about the failure to receive documents from the government for which they had paid led 7th District Congressman Rob Woodall to introduce and the House of Representatives to pass a bill that resolves the issue at no cost to taxpayers. H.R. 4712, The Secure Mail Initiative Act, came about after several of
IRS Commissioner John Koskinen, testified Wednesday before the House Judiciary Committee on his misconduct during the Congressional investigation of IRS targeting of conservative groups. The Commissioner has previously appeared on multiple occasions before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. He is also the subject of impeachment legislation co-sponsored by Georgia’s 9th District Congressman Doug
Today marks the birthday of the Postmaster General (227th), the Emancipation Proclamation (154th), and the Peace Corps (55th). Peaches Elected officials in North Fulton asking for too much trust. Well, it sounds like Chatham County Schools has all the answers in one clean sweep. Stone Mountain gets more Syrian refugees than LA and NYC combined
The state’s largest school district will remain neutral on the Opportunity School District proposal in constitutional Amendment 1 that voters will decide on in November. Giving his annual “State of the Schools” address to an audience of business and community leaders in Gwinnett County on Wednesday, Wilbanks said, “I’m not here to advocate for or
CNN takes a look at the Georgia Senate race between Democrat Jim Barksdale and Republican Johnny Isakson, and wonders if the Democrats missed an opportunity to pick up a Senate seat in this year of presidential candidate discontent. Prominent Georgia Democrats, from Rev. Raphael Warnock of Ebenezer Baptist Church to House Minority Leader Stacey Abrams
