In an article first posted on All On Georgia-Muscogee County, Richard Hyatt reports that State Senator Josh Mckoon (R-Columbus) will file his intent to run for Secretary of State tomorrow. McKoon has served in the State Senate since 2010 representing parts of Muscogee (Columbus) and Troup, and all of Harris and Meriwether counties. A graduate
The House unanimously voted to extend a nuclear tax credit on Tuesday. This legislation, H.R. 1551 (introduced by Rep. Tom Rice (R-SC)), would lift the deadline for nuclear reactors to be working by 2020 in order to receive the existing tax credit. The bill now moves to the U.S. Senate. The bill has particular importance to Georgia and
How many times have you heard a politician promise to raise tax revenue, without raising taxes? Often it seems far-fetched and outside of the politician’s control, and often it is. But, in Georgia, that is what’s happening right now. Last week, Gov. Nathan Deal released the May 2017 tax collection numbers. At the end of
With Plant Vogtle on the eastern side of the state receiving a barrage of bad news and bad press over the past few months, Georgia Power has been looking for something — anything —that could counter all of the negativity and reframe the debate abut clean energy in Georgia. With the announcement Tuesday of an 800 acre
This week’s Courier Herald Column. This is the third installment of this series. You can track back to the beginning starting with the previous installment here. In this, the third in a series explaining the regions that make up Georgia’s political factions, we’re going begin to take a look at each region one by one,
This week’s Courier Herald column: This is the second in a series. The introductory column can be found here. During the 1980’s, the Director of Georgia’s Cooperative Extension Service Tal DuVall published a study on “Two Georgias”, highlighting the growing disparity between a prosperous and growing metro Atlanta, and a mostly rural “other Georgia”. It
A couple of weeks ago I previewed the need to get the issues of rural Georgia into the 2018 statewide campaigns. The plight of rural Georgia affects us all, as policy decisions made in Atlanta (and often influenced by the 55% of the state that live in “Atlanta”) make a disproportional impact in that other
In 2016, television and film added $7.2 billion to the Georgia economy during FY 2016, according to an article in AdWeek. The 245 in-state productions had a direct impact of $2.02 billion, largely around the Atlanta area. Explore Georgia has the full list of films and television filmed in state for those curious. This is up
The Georgia Ports Authority is taking over the world, Pinky expanding its influence and setting itself up to be “the East Coast leading gateway for containerized cargo.” It’s a title the GPA will share with the Virginia Port Authority, but who’s counting? On Friday, the Federal Maritime Commission approved the two entitites’ joint application to develop
This week’s Courier Herald column: The members of the Georgia General Assembly left Atlanta at the end of March with quite a few tax proposals left sitting on their desks, rather than sending them on to the Governor’s. Under consideration was a bill that would have cut the top income tax rate marginally while increasing
