Union County has 4th lowest tax rate in the state, a top 5 rated school system, an outstanding park, a top 100 rural hospital system and is a great place to raise your family and grow your business. Unfortunately, yesterday the DEA and local law enforcement raided that hospital and arrested 6 individuals. As reported

Senator Steve Gooch (R-SD-51) filed legislation to create a joint study committee to study high-speed Internet access in Georgia, termed the “Joint High-Speed Broadband Communications Access for All Georgians Study Committee”.  The committee will meet several times through the summer and fall of this year focusing on obstacles that prevent high-speed Internet access from reaching

Channel 11Alive of Atlanta recently reported that a data breach of the health insurer Centene Corporation has put the personal data of 150,000 Georgians at risk. Centene is the parent company of the Peach State Health plan that covers the 380,000 Medicare and PeachCare patients. The data breach occurred when Centene lost six computer hard drives that contain highly

On this day in 1934, “Hammerin’ Hank” Aaron was born in Mobile, Alabama. Famous Georgian to sit on panel for ABC’s Saturday GOP debate. But what if you live at the end of that dirt road? Golly, has it been 10 years already? Just in time for CPAC. Iowans not taking kindly to “the whiff

In a hearing before a House Judiciary Committee subcommittee, HB 757, the Pastor Protection Act was recommended to be sent to the full judiciary committee after it was amended twice, and with a likely third amendment that could be added when the full committee meets. The subcommittee heard from two witnesses, Jeff Graham of Georgia

House District 95 Representative Tom Rice of Gwinnett County says he will not seek re-election to the House after serving ten terms. In a statement, the chairman of the Motor Vehicles Committee said, I have been privileged to serve the legislative needs of the citizens of Peachtree Corners, Berkeley Lake, Norcross and parts of John’s

A gaggle of Middle Georgians deserve a large pat on the back, because years of work have gone into this. Yesterday, in a rare show of bipartisanship from Congress, Representatives Austin Scott and Sanford Bishop announced that the move to change the Ocmulgee National Monument to a National Historic Park passed unanimously out of committee. This

The University of Georgia School of Law released a video profiling Trevon Smith, the first recipient of the Stacey Godfrey Evans Scholarship. Smith is a second-year student at the School of Law. The Stacey Godfrey Evans Scholarship was endowed by Representative Stacey Evans (D-Smyrna) earlier this year. Rep. Evans was a first-generation college student, and

Received via email: Why I decided not to run for Congress I announced on January 25, 2016 that I was not going to run for Congress after previously announcing I had formed an exploratory committee to help me decide whether to run. In that press release I said that in my next opinion column I

Republican State Representative Allen Peake of Macon was the guest speaker Wednesday as members of the Georgia Young Republicans enjoyed lunch during their day at the Capitol. In his talk, he explained what motivated him to work towards allowing medical marijuana in the Peach State, both in the passage of last year’s House Bill 1,