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Mar 19 2024
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Biden sees worrying signs in Georgia
President Biden is facing worrying signs in Georgia — the state he flipped blue for the first time in decades back in 2020 — including low primary turnout and a lack of big down-ballot races to energize his base. Biden beat former President Trump by fewer than 12,000 votes in the Peach State last cycle, and polls suggest the former president now has the edge as the pair head toward a 2024
Fox 4 Kansas CityMar 25 2024
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Georgia Weather: Expect High Winds To Start The Week
The Gist: A Wind Advisory and Fire Danger Statement are in effect for North and Central Georgia, bringing gusty winds and potential fire hazards. The Details: Residents in parts of North and Central Georgia are facing a Wind Advisory until 2 p.m. Tuesday, with southeasterly winds expected to reach 15-20 mph and gusts hitting 35-40 mph. The advisory stretches across portions of north and west
The Georgia SunMar 14 2024
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6 election charges tossed in Georgia
ATLANTA -- The judge overseeing the Georgia 2020 election interference case on Wednesday dismissed some of the charges against former President Donald Trump and others, but the rest of the sweeping racketeering indictment remains intact. Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee quashed six counts in the indictment, including three against Trump, the presumptive 2024 Republican
Arkansas Democrat-GazetteMar 21 2024
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Immigration Laws Passed by Georgia Legislature – WABE
Immigration continued to be the focus of attention at the Capitol this week as Laken Riley's father spoke out against immigrants who are in the country illegally and lawmakers passed three controversial immigration bills. On Wednesday, Republican Sen. Colton Moore honored the 22-year-old nursing student who was killed while running on the University of Georgia campus. A Venezuelan migrant who
Georgia Law NewsMar 21 2024
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Congresswoman Moves to Disbar Fani Willis in Georgia
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene announced she filed a complaint against the embattled Fulton County district attorney. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) this week announced she filed a complaint to ask for the disbarment of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis over her relationship with a former special counsel involved in the Trump case. The district attorney, she wrote, “should’ve been
The Epoch TimesMar 13 2024
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Georgia school voucher push: Georgia House speaker aims to persuade resistant GOP members
Georgia House Speaker Jon Burns is leaning into the push to pass a voucher plan funding private school tuition and home schooling, looking to change the minds of fellow Republican skeptics. Burns made what he said was his first-ever appearance at a House Education Committee meeting Wednesday. He urged the panel to advance a voucher plan that's been rolled together with a number of other
Fox 5 AtlantaMar 19 2024
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Gwinnett officer’s push to get first responder PTSD coverage gets Georgia Senate panel hearing • Georgia Recorder
Two years into her service in Gwinnett County, police officer Ashley Wilson’s partner died in her arms after being shot in the line of duty. After winning her battle against post-traumatic stress disorder and accumulating $20,000 in medical bills, she has been fighting on a new front to help her fellow suffering officers. After three years of setbacks, new legislation passed in the state House
Georgia RecorderMar 18 2024
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Georgia lawmakers advance bills aimed to give convicts of minor crimes easier path to work, housing • Georgia Recorder
Two Georgia legislative panels on Monday approved bills that criminal justice reform advocates contend will help thousands of people with minor criminal convictions improve their chances to find good jobs and housing. The House Judiciary Non-Civil Committee unanimously approved Senate Bill 157, intended to relieve Georgians convicted of minor offenses more access to professional licenses
Georgia RecorderMar 14 2024
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Georgia Senate OKs bill to loosen limits on health care facilities, but talks ongoing • Georgia Recorder
A proposal to loosen up Georgia’s health care business regulations cleared the Senate Thursday with some bipartisan support, but Democrats say they will withhold support next time unless the bill includes full Medicaid expansion. Republicans in the GOP-controlled chamber may not need Democrats to send the measure to the governor’s desk, but the final form of the bill is destined to be hashed
Georgia RecorderMar 25 2024
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The murder of a Georgia student becomes part of the immigration debate in the USA
The killing of a Georgia nursing student, allegedly by a Venezuelan immigrant, has quickly intensified the country's immigration debate as President Biden and leading Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump prepare for trips to the border this week. The body of 22-year-old Laken Hope Riley was found Thursday in the woods near a jogging track on the University of Georgia campus, and her
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