From a press release: WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., chairman of the Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, is urging his colleagues to pass urgent legislation that will help improve veterans’ access to health care, disability benefits, education and homelessness assistance, among other important benefits.
This week’s Courier Herald column: With the calendar now having turned to December, we’re roughly half way between last month’s election and next month’s “governing”. An Inauguration is on tap for Friday, January 20th. Congress and the Georgia legislature will begin legislative duties a couple of weeks earlier. While the professional political class and most
With Judson Hill announcing he’s in for the presumed special election to fill Tom Price’s Congressional seat, Georgia’s “resign to run law” means that there will be special election to fill Hill’s State Senate Seat upon his resignation or qualifying for the Congressional race. As such, East Cobb attorney Gus Makris is preparing to announce
With a special election looming to fill the soon to be vacated seat of Congressman Tom Price, there’s a lot of confusion and social media discussion on Georgia’s “Resign To Run” law. Let’s clear the first part of the confusion up. It’s more than a law. It’s in the Georgia Constitution. Article II, Section 2,
Congressman Tom Price has officially been tapped to take the helm of Health and Human Services. The doctor turned Congressman who authored the Republicans’ most comprehensive alternative to Obamacare will now be in charge of overseeing the program and/or its replacement. Congressman Price’s statement on his nomination is as follows: “It is an honor to
Governor Nathan Deal has suspended the entire School Board of Dooly County. Dooly County Schools have been under the threat of loss of accreditation. Governor Deal has appointed Martha Ann Todd, Executive Director of the Governor’s Office of Student Achievement, as the liaison between the Governor’s office and Dooly’s interim School Superintendent, Celeta Thomas. Governor
This week’s Courier Herald column: Over the past couple of weeks, we’ve taken a look at the national and partisan implications of the surprising win for Donald Trump. Today we’re going to focus on what this means for Georgia. Access is power in Washington. Several prominent Georgia Democrats are now rethinking their future, as their
Today is Jon Richards birthday. He’s the guy that keeps things running around here these days. He gets the pleasure of taking random barking orders from me when I’m around and otherwise herding the 20 or so cats that are our various contributors when I’m around and/or when I’m not. He does this for the
Administrations are changing, and we all need to do our part. If the GOP Congress gets to cut into many of the programs that cost the federal government money, charities and individuals need to be prepared to stand in and fill the gap. As such, perhaps you want to get ahead of the curve and
This week’s Courier Herald column: 8 years ago, talk show host Rush Limbaugh made news by asserting that he hoped newly elected President Barack Obama would fail. It was a pre-emptive signal of permanent resistance to a President that was certain to pull the country hard to the left. I like many others whose politics
