Speaker Ralston has been busy this summer. Tuesday he named members to three more study committees. Here they are. The Joint Alternative Fuels Infrastructure Study Committee will consist of five representatives and five senators. Its stated purpose is: To study how providing market incentives for installation of refueling infrastructure for alternative fuel vehicles would serve
Senator Renee Unterman of Buford has touched on a sensitive subject for Georgia Republicans. The chairman of the Senate’s Health and Human Services committee told WABE News that she thinks it’s time to look into expanding Medicaid in Georgia, albeit with a few caveats. Under the ACA, the federal government expanded Medicaid coverage to all
It won’t be the same as a debate between Senator Josh McKoon, who has been the driving force behind passing a Religious Freedom Restoration Act and other religious liberty legislation, and Governor Nathan Deal who vetoed the Free Exercise Protection Act, which contained a version of RFRA, but it will be close. Today at 2
The world is still celebrating from ABBA’s first public performance in 30 years. “Does Your Mother Know” is their greatest song. When they ask: What is whiteness? Show them that video. Perhaps whiteness’ Platonic form. Why the 1980 Bulldogs might be the most undeserving national champions ever. You’re really trying to make friends today, aren’t
A meme disguised as a news story made its way through Atlanta and national social media yesterday saying that the Braves were going to have to raise taxes to buy parkland because they used park bond money to give to Liberty Media and the Atlanta Braves. Lee has released the following statement: Contrary to several
By now you’ve probably read (or read of) at least a dozen paeans to Muhammad Ali, who died on Friday. What’s become essentially a footnote in his life is how important Atlanta was to his career. And no, I’m not talking about how he lit the Olympic Cauldron–iconic though that moment may have been. In
Today, Senator Johnny Isakson announced that he has filed an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that will secure federal funding to relocate St. Marys Airport away from the nearby Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base. From Senator Isakson’s press release: The current location of the Camden County, Ga., airport has for years raised
Mike Griffin, Public Affairs Representative of the Executive Committee of the Baptist Convention of the State of Georgia, posted the following to Twitter: Do Muslims really qualify for religious freedom benefits? https://t.co/xY5Awwuvmb via @christianindex — Michael R. Griffin (@mikegriffinsr) June 6, 2016 The tweet links to an editorial by Dr. Gerald Harris, the editor of
Georgia’s best president, Jimmy Carter, said on Monday the Carter Center’s work to eradicate Guinea-worm disease (AKA: Dracunculiasis) is close to being complete. In an interview with NPR’s “All Things Considered”, Carter said there have been only two confirmed cases of Guinea-worm disease in 2016. Compare that to the 3.5 million a year during the
After years of legal wrangling those of us not living along the Savannah River may have forgotten about, Georgia and South Carolina residents will be able to carry a concealed weapon in their neighboring state. On June 1, South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley signed a bill out of the state’s senate that expressly granted sovereignty
