Georgia lawmakers continue to look for ways to address the startling crime rate in Atlanta. The House Public Safety & Homeland Security Committee, chaired by State Representative J. Collins (R-Villa Rica), held a town hall meeting late last week to hear from residents in downtown Atlanta on ways to address crime.

You didn’t learn this from most Georgia media, but Nicki Minaj supporters marched on the Atlanta headquarters of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) last week chanting that the pop star “told the truth” with her comments about COVID vaccines.

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) released its report of the investigation into the capsizing of the Golden Ray vehicle carrier on Tuesday.

Several Democratic members of the Georgia Congressional Delegation want to grow public transportation across the state, specifically, they say, as a means of “connecting affordable housing with transit networks in order to serve riders and commuters in low-income communities.”

It didn’t get much mainstream media attention, but the Atlanta-based Trafalgar Group released a survey of Georgia’s 2022 Republican U.S. Senate primary showing new entry and former UGA/NFL football star Herschel Walker with a huge lead over other candidates:

The Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia has kicked off the search for the next president of Kennesaw State University — naming two committees to spearhead the national search.

A dozen rural schools have been chosen as recipients of education grants totaling over $115,000, according to the Georgia Foundation for Public Education (GFPE).