A federal action was filed today in Washington D.C. against the United States Election Assistance Commission and the Commission’s Executive Director, Brian D. Newby.  Voting rights groups are challenging the legality of the permission granted to Alabama, Georgia, and Kansas to require proof of citizenship on federal voter registration forms. The suit was filed by the League

This past Monday was Esophageal Cancer Day at the Georgia State Capitol, in order to raise awareness of the disease and the work being done to help fight it. Chairman Paul Battles of the Georgia House of Representatives recently recognized the Esophageal Cancer Awareness Association (ECAA), an all-volunteer national organization who is dedicated to battling

Several prison guards were arrested this week on the charges of using the status of their uniforms in order to both help and protect a big-time drug trafficker in their effort to smuggle copious amounts of cocaine and methamphetamine throughout Georgia. However, what makes this story even more unique than it already is is that

It’s Valentine’s Weekend, There’s a potential Icepocalypse coming on President’s Day, and the chill that you feel isn’t coming from a Polar Vortex but from under Georgia’s Gold Dome. How’s that for a backdrop to an hour of GeorgiaPol Radio on WGST? It’s the mid-point of the General Assembly session and usually that’s when things

In the second installment of Become a Budget Expert, we discuss the three areas that make up state funding: taxes and fees, bonds, and the rainy day fund. Taxes and fees make up the yearly state budget in good economic times and are supported in bad times by reserve revenues, called the rainy day fund.

Eight former chairmen of the conservative group American Legislative Exchange Council signed a letter endorsing HB 929, which calls for the winner of the popular vote to become president. Earl Ehrhart, himself a former chair of ALEC and sponsor of the bill, was signatory to the letter. HB 929 doesn’t call for the Electoral College to be abolished.

Congressman Doug Collins (R-GA-09) has sent a letter to Windstream CEO Tony Thomas regarding issues with customers not getting the quality of service that they are paying for.  That’s not usually a thing a congressman gets involved with, but the issue is that Windstream is participating in a federal government program to provide access to

On this day in 1733 James Oglethorpe climbed up the bluff from the Savannah River and founded the colony of our favorite place in the world, Georgia. Miss Jessica to the white courtesy phone. Miss Jessica to the white courtesy phone. Cobb County is messing with people’s chickens again. New, not quite hired, Fulton County

Today was full of meddling and hypocrisy. Will wrote earlier about the Twitter exchange over Senator Mike Crane – who happens to be running for Congress- “walking out” on the vote for the amended budget. Members of Governor Deal’s staff shamed Crane for leaving and mocked his principled outsider rhetoric. I’m not sure if Georgians

Hillary Clinton appears to be enlisting Atlanta’s two biggest heavyweights to go on the offensive against Bernie Sanders. On Thursday, Congressman John Lewis called into question, well, all of Sanders’ time in the civil rights movement. Mayor Reed, for his part, said Sanders is ignoring the record of the incumbent president. Both have been ardent