| Covering Georgia Politics
3 days ago · Trump win puts Georgia squarely back in red column. by Dave Williams | Nov 8, 2024. ATLANTA - Georgia voters have reasserted the Peach State's bona fides as a Republican stronghold. Four years after losing to Democrat Joe Biden by fewer than 12,000 votes in Georgia, former President Donald Trump captured the state's 16 electoral votes Nov. 5 by...
Georgia House Republicans retain leadership team
1 day ago · ATLANTA – The Georgia House Republican Caucus voted Tuesday to reelect the entire GOP leadership team to serve in those roles during the two-year term starting in January. Rep. Chuck Efstration, R-Mulberry, will return as House majority leader, while Rep. James Burchett, R-Waycross, will continue as majority whip. The rest of the reelected ...
Georgia ports report busy October following strike
3 hours ago · ATLANTA – The Georgia Ports Authority experienced its third busiest October on record, handling 494,261 twenty-foot equivalent container units (TEUs), the agency reported Thursday. That number fell short only of October 2021 and October 2022, when more than half a million TEUs crossed the docks at the Port of Savannah. Last month’s numbers ...
University system sets enrollment record
2 days ago · The university system also has become increasingly diverse in recent years. While enrollment among white students declined from 47% in 2020 to 42% this fall, enrollment among Latino students has grown from 10% to 12%, and Asian enrollment is up from 11% to 14%. Enrollment among Black students has held steady at 25%. In other business Tuesday ...
Georgia property-tax relief measures headed to easy victories
Nov 6, 2024 · ATLANTA – Georgia voters were poised to overwhelmingly approve two tax-relief measures on the statewide ballot Tuesday night, while a third tax-related proposal held a smaller lead. With 122 of the state’s 159 counties reporting, a constitutional amendment offering property tax relief had racked up 63% of the total, according to unofficial ...
Trump win puts Georgia squarely back in red column
6 days ago · Trump won by running up his victory margins in Republican-friendly rural Georgia and cutting into his losses in urban and suburban areas. The GOP also retained its majorities in the General Assembly. “We’ve shown the country that Georgia remains a red state, with big wins up and down the ticket,” said state House Speaker Pro Tempore Jan ...
Republicans maintain majorities in General Assembly
Nov 6, 2024 · ATLANTA – Georgia Democrats were unable to put a dent in the General Assembly’s Republican majorities in Tuesday’s legislative elections. After the dust settled from Election Night, Republicans remained in control of the Georgia Senate with the same 33-23 majority the GOP enjoyed going into this week. The only seat Republicans lost in the ...
Georgia voters to decide tax-related ballot questions
Sep 27, 2024 · The second property tax-related item on the ballot is a statewide referendum that would increase the exemption on personal property taxes from $7,500 to $20,000. While the exemption would benefit all Georgians, supporters are pitching it as mainly aimed at small business owners. “Small businesses already pay sales taxes on equipment, desks ...
State Election Board grappling with mass voter challenges
Oct 8, 2024 · ATLANTA – Georgia counties are systematically denying mass voter challenges brought by citizen activists instead of investigating them as the law requires, State Election Board Executive Director Mike Coan said Tuesday. The Republican-controlled board instructed Coan last month to look into how challenges are being handled in eight counties ...
Georgia abortion ban comes under fire at Senate hearing
Sep 16, 2024 · That’s all the doctor could do under Georgia’s restrictive abortion law that essentially bans the procedure after six weeks, Mackenzie Kulik testified during a field hearing of the Senate Human Rights Subcommittee at the Fulton County Government Center chaired by Sen. Jon Ossoff, D-Ga. “Instead of giving me the science, my doctors told me ...