Activity at the U.S. House paused today as Rev. Jody Hice, who represents the 10th District and Athens, joined by the Georgia House delegation, took a moment to honor the lives of the four University of Georgia students who were killed in a car accident on Wednesday. The chamber then observed a moment of silence.
Today was a significant bill signing day for Governor Deal. In addition to measures requiring the testing of rape kits, providing funding for nonprofit organizations offering pregnancy counseling, regulating the use of fireworks, and more, the governor signed Senate Bill 369, the session’s measure dealing with transit. The measure allows the city of Atlanta to
The new federal fiscal year doesn’t begin until October, but in Washington, the House and Senate Appropriations committees are working on what will become the spending priorities for 2017. For Georgia lawmakers, providing $100 million to continue work on deepening the Savannah Harbor to 48 feet is an economic development priority. In the House Rep.
Back in the depths of the Great Recession, much of Georgia’s slowing economy was caused by the collapse of the housing market. In metro Atlanta, houses sat unfinished in the middle of subdivision pipe farms as demand for new homes dropped. But the recession also had a tremendous effect in northwest Georgia’s flooring industry, where
There has been plenty of speculation recently over whether presidential candidate Donald J. Trump has been cheated out of delegates he should or should not have had to date in the primary process. In fact, Trump has received 204 more delegates than he would have if the delegates had been allocated by the percentage of
The Atlanta Regional Commission recently released new projections of population in the Atlanta region in 2040. As you might expect, the region will continue to grow, from 5.5 million to 8 million people, with Gwinnett County expected to be the most populous. But perhaps the most interesting change will be an increase in the region’s
Beginning with the Colorado caucuses earlier this month, in which Ted Cruz won all the delegates to the Republican National Convention this July, and continuing through similar results in Wyoming and through last weekend’s Republican District conventions in Georgia, there have been plenty of blog posts and op-eds decrying the way the nominee of the
Representative Doug Collins, who has four challengers in the 9th District primary in May earned two endorsements for his candidacy. Former Congressman Jack Kingston announced his support today in a press release: Men like Doug Collins are a rare breed in Washington. What you see is what you get with Doug. He stands up for
The Seventh District Republican Convention got a little testy this afternoon after initially rejecting a slate proposed by the nominating committee and then voting to send all but Debbie Dooley to the Republican convention in Cleveland. Instead of Dooley, convention delegates chose David Hancock, the head of the United Tea Party of Georgia. Roughly 70%
I’m At the 7th District convention in Buford. We’ve got 179 delegates here, with our credentials report just before 11 AM. We’ve got 19 candidates for 3 delegate and 3 alternate slots, and none have yet spoken. What are you hearing at other conventions? Who are other conventions electing as delegates and alternates? Let us
