For the second straight year, the University System of Georgia’s Board of Regents has announced it will freeze tuition and fees for the next school year. All 26 of the state’s public colleges and universities will see tuition stay at the current level, with the board pointing to financial hardships resulting from the COVID pandemic as the reason for the freeze. Working to keep education affordable has been a goal for the USG, and being mindful of the economic stress facing many Georgians has students’ and parents’ ships RISING…
EXCLUSIVE: U.S. Senate candidate King talks about policy priorities
There’s been a lot of talk in the last few weeks about who will run for one of Georgia’s two U.S. Senate seats in 2022. Democrat Raphael Warnock currently holds the seat, filling the unexpired term of retired Sen. Johnny Isakson. Today, he has an...Candidates lining up for 2022
We still have about 19 months until the November 2022 elections in Georgia — but the first wave of candidates have already thrown their hats in the ring to challenge some of the state’s current Constitutional officers. Names began surfacing in the Lt....Carr pushes to keep Ga. a right-to-work state
Attorney General Chris Carr is joining other states in sending a message to U.S. Senate leaders — Georgia is a right-to-work state and plans to stay that way. Carr announced today that he has joined a 14-state coalition of attorneys general in sending a...Anti-“Revenge Porn” Bill Heads to Governor
A bill that would make it a felony to distribute sexually explicit content on a pornographic website with the intent of harassing or causing financial harm to the victim is headed to Gov. Brian Kemp’s desk. On the final day of the 2021 legislative...
