In his new book Education Unleashed, Lt. Governor Casey Cagle describes a vision for public elementary and secondary education that lets each student achieve to the best of his or her abilities by empowering teachers, schools, and school districts to make their own decisions about how to best educate their students. To make his point,
As Congress worked to pass legislation before wrapping up the 2016 fiscal year. the House managed to pass the 2016 version of H.R. 5303, the Water Resources Development Act. The bill deals with the infrastructure needed to manage the country’s water resources, including dams, flood protection, and the nation’s ports. Included in the measure was
The Senate Rural Healthcare 180 Task force met for the first time on Tuesday, seeking ways to leverage a tax credit program approved during the 2016 session that would provide funds for rural hospitals, many of which are losing money at a rate that could result in their closing if nothing is done. The tax
Senators Greg Kirk and Vincent Fort wrapped up their series of debates over religious liberty Thursday night with an appearance in Tifton. While the various religious liberty bills from the 2016 session were brought up, the goal of the debates, according to Senator Kirk, was to offer each side of the debate an opportunity to
We’ve covered in some detail Senator David Perdue’s year-long effort to change the way Congress develops its annual budget, and appropriates funds for each fiscal year. One result of this effort was the introduction of the Accurate Accounting Act in the Senate earlier this year. On Thursday, 14th District Rep. Tom Graves introduced a matching
Complaints from constituents about the failure to receive documents from the government for which they had paid led 7th District Congressman Rob Woodall to introduce and the House of Representatives to pass a bill that resolves the issue at no cost to taxpayers. H.R. 4712, The Secure Mail Initiative Act, came about after several of
The state’s largest school district will remain neutral on the Opportunity School District proposal in constitutional Amendment 1 that voters will decide on in November. Giving his annual “State of the Schools” address to an audience of business and community leaders in Gwinnett County on Wednesday, Wilbanks said, “I’m not here to advocate for or
CNN takes a look at the Georgia Senate race between Democrat Jim Barksdale and Republican Johnny Isakson, and wonders if the Democrats missed an opportunity to pick up a Senate seat in this year of presidential candidate discontent. Prominent Georgia Democrats, from Rev. Raphael Warnock of Ebenezer Baptist Church to House Minority Leader Stacey Abrams
Attorney General Sam Olens annnounced today that Georgia has joined with 20 other states in opposing a new federal Labor Department rule that doubles the salary an employee must earn in order to be exempt from paying overtime wages. Under the new rule, anyone who makes $913 per week or less is entitled to overtime
Editor’s Note: The following guest post was written by Slade Mendenhall, a PhD student and research assistant in economics at George Mason University. He is a graduate of the University of Georgia and the London School of Economics and a former aide at the Georgia State Capitol. He hails from Alpharetta, Georgia and blogs at
