Congressman Rob Woodall (R-GA-07) got selected by Speaker Paul Ryan to serve on the Joint Select Committee of Budget Process Reform. Congressman Woodall is one of four Republicans up sit on the 16-person committee. You can read the full presser below. WASHINGTON, DC – Today, House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) announced that Rep. Rob Woodall
Over the past few days, I’ve seen a sudden uptick of activity on the Dade County GOP Facebook page with a couple of people expressing their ire over their county’s commissioners proposing another T-SPLOST question to be placed on the May general primary ballot after the last one was defeated in November of 2017. The
I saw this tweet a few minutes ago that was tweeted out by the AJC’s Tamar Hallerman yesterday about Congressman Tom Graves (R-GA-14) running for House Appropriations Committee chairman. It will be a crowded race, but it’s a very powerful committee since it controls the proverbial purse strings….and quite a boon for Georgia if Congressman
We received a press release earlier in the day from Houston Gaines who ran to succeed Republican State Rep. Regina Quick after she resigned to accept an appointment as Superior Court judge in the Western Circuit. You can read the full presser below. Gaines lost the special election by a little over 6 percentage points
Georgia House Speaker David Ralston attended President Donald Trump’s announcement yesterday on his commitment to infrastructure improvements across America. As Charlie touches on in his column yesterday, Georgia is positioned to benefit from the President’s focus on state-centered infrastructure solutions. President Trump’s budget is a practice of federalism where states are responsible for creating their
We received a press release from Lieutenant Governor Casey Cagle’s office concerning the Senate’s effort to address the lack of broadband connectivity in rural Georgia. Senate Bill 402, dubbed the “Achieving Connectivity Everywhere (ACE) Act”, looks to make broadband availability a concerted effort of public-private partnerships orchestrated by the state. The legislative initiative is being
We received a presser from Tricia Pridemore’s campaign to fill the District 5 Public Service Commission seat being vacated by Stan Wise. In the presser, Pridemore has raised close to $200,000 with over $185,000 cash on-hand in the first hundred days of her campaign. It’s a record haul for a non-incumbent candidate for Georgia’s PSC.
Earlier, the White House declassified the memo written by House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes (R-CA-22) to the majority members of the Committee. Two things you will likely hear, or may have heard, through the weekend: Republicans will point to this as damning evidence against Democrats using a federal agency to win
You may recall last year’s announcement by AT&T of rolling out fixed wireless in rural parts of Georgia. In less than a year, AT&T has deployed the service in 46 counties with the ability of serving 27,000 locations, according to AT&T. The wireless service guarantees at least 10 Mbps download and 1 Mbps upload speeds.
Autonomous car company Waymo announced their plans to bring their self-driving vans to Atlanta. From an article in Left Lane News: The apparent leader in bringing self-driving technology to market, Waymo has recently ramped up its geographic expansion plans after spending many months operating on public roads around the Pheonix suburb of Chandler, Arizona. The
