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.
read moreStill digesting the 2021 legislative session
Understandably, considering the ensuing uproar, much of the coverage of this year’s legislative session has focused on the election law reforms passed by the General Assembly. The Citizen’s Arrest law also got a widely praised update – following the tragic shooting of Ahmaud Arbery.
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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.
read moreCarr Joins Opposition to Fed Ban on Ga. Tax Cut
The recent tax cut passed by the Georgia General Assembly is directly affected by the so-called COVID relief law that includes $350 billion in federal aid to states and localities.
read moreAnti-“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.
read moreState receives $5 million to expand school nursing services
More than $5 million in federal aid will go to schools across the state to help Georgia expand nursing services.
read moreEnvironmentalists win trust fund protection in otherwise disappointing legislative session
When the dust settled from this year’s General Assembly session, environmental advocates were looking at some success but mostly disappointments.
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Watch the April 11 Georgia Gang here!
Democrat guest panelist Bobby Kaple joins IAG CEO Phil Kent and Janelle King for the April 11th broadcast. It kicks off with a feisty debate over Major League Baseball being pressured to move the All Star Game from Georgia to Colorado because of opposition to Georgia’s new election reform law.
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Georgia Should Not Be Entangled with Bad-Faith Actors on Intellectual Property
In the quest to attract investment from foreign and domestic corporations, Georgia has become a home for Electric Vehicle-related manufacturing. In 2019, SK Innovation (SKI), an electric vehicle (EV) battery manufacturer and subsidiary of a South Korean global conglomerate, broke ground in the town of Commerce on a $1.67 billion manufacturing plant to produce batteries for Ford and Volkswagen, with a promise of creating 2,000 jobs.
A Bipartisan Call to Review Georgia’s Election Process
Our decisions, the laws we pass, carry the weight of authority, but only when it’s with the consent of the governed. And that consent is only given when the people have faith that an election was fair and fairly won.
The Mayor that Atlanta Needs
Tom Menino was Mayor of Boston for 21 years, from 1993 to 2014. Unlike most of his predecessors and successors, he didn’t want to use the office as a steppingstone to some higher office. All he wanted was to be mayor of Boston.
