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Apr 04 2024
News
Georgia cities to share federal grant for clean energy planning
The grants allow for recipients to develop plans based on their needs and help the areas that need resources the most. Granholm said it was fitting the announcement was at Georgia Tech because its tools “are going to be magnificent for this project for communities to decide the best path for them based on data.” Dickens said the city is making progress toward a goal of a complete transition to
Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionApr 12 2024
News
Georgia city rules that people must lock empty vehicles when guns are inside
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Coastal Georgia’s largest city will require guns left in empty vehicles be securely stored, an effort that Savannah Mayor Van Johnson says is meant to cut down on gun thefts from unlocked cars. “We are not trying to take anybody’s guns — that is a constitutional right granted by the Second Amendment,” Johnson, a Democrat, told reporters. “But we do think with the right
Associated PressApr 16 2024
News
Georgia Power gets the green light to add fossil fuels, batteries to meet data center demand
State utility regulators voted Tuesday to allow Georgia Power to add huge amounts of new fossil-fueled power assets and battery storage, mostly to serve the onslaught of energy-intensive data centers and industrial customers heading to Georgia. Georgia Power says serving those large electricity users will put “downward pressure” on rates paid by other customers, many of whom have been dealt
Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionApr 04 2024
Opinion
Georgia Adds Big Election Integrity Wins At Session's End
It took some wheeling and dealing, but Georgia lawmakers passed significant election integrity bills last week — just in the nick of time. As The Federalist reported last week, the Georgia State Senate was prepared to take up House Bill 976 — a meat and potatoes election integrity package — on the final day of the General Assembly’s session. As is often the case in legislation facing Sine Die
The FederalistApr 17 2024
News
A Georgia beach aims to disrupt Black students' spring bash after big crowds brought chaos in 2023
TYBEE ISLAND, Ga. — Thousands of Black college students expected this weekend for an annual spring bash at Georgia’s largest public beach will be greeted by dozens of extra police officers and barricades closing off neighborhood streets. While the beach will remain open, officials are blocking access to nearby parking. Tybee Island east of Savannah has grappled with the April beach party known
Washington PostApr 16 2024
News
Georgia parliament descends into chaos as lawmakers throw punches over Putin-style ‘foreign agent’ bill
Georgia’s parliament descended into chaos Monday after the leader of the ruling Georgian Dream party’s parliamentary faction was punched in the face while discussing a controversial law on "foreign agents."
Video obtained by Fox News Digital shows Mamuka Mdinaradze, 45, punched in the face by opposition MP Aleko Elisashvili, 46, while addressing the chamber.
Mdinaradze, who is
Fox News (Online News)Mar 18 2024
News
Georgia House passes school choice measure a year after killing bill • The Georgia Virtue
(The Center Square) – The Georgia House of Representatives on Thursday passed a measure that would allow Georgia families to use state-funded education savings accounts for private school or other education-related uses. Lawmakers passed Senate Bill 233, the Georgia Promise Scholarship Act, by a 91-82 margin, a year after killing the measure. Under the measure, taxpayers would cover the cost
The Georgia VirtueMar 20 2024
News
Bookman: Georgia's $141M voucher program likely mere down payment on what's to come • Georgia Recorder
In its attempt to shove school vouchers down the throat of reluctant voters, Georgia Republicans have argued that the state’s existing structure of public schools is not capable of providing an adequate education to many students, especially to those in “failing schools.” If that’s true, it’s basically an admission of failure by the GOP, since that party has dominated Georgia politics, and
Georgia RecorderApr 15 2024
News
Rudy Giuliani’s $148 Million Defamation Bill For False Georgia Voter Fraud Claims Upheld By Judge
A federal judge rejected Rudy Giuliani’s request to reverse a massive defamation judgment owed to two Georgia election workers, ordering the former Trump lawyer to pay $148 million to a mother and daughter whom Giuliani falsely accused of voter fraud in 2020. A ruling from D.C.-based District Judge Beryl Howell upheld a jury’s verdict from December that found Giuliani, an ex-attorney for
ForbesApr 03 2024
News
Protests called as Georgia revives controversial ‘foreign agents’ law
The country’s governing Georgian Dream party says the law will be passed before parliamentary elections in October. Pro-democracy groups have called for protests after Georgia’s governing party said it will revive the controversial “foreign agents law” that mass demonstrations forced it to drop last year. The governing Georgian Dream party said on Wednesday that it plans to make another bid to
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