For the fourth year in a row, the state of Georgia has been named the number one state in which do do business by Site Selection Magazine. The announcement was made this morning at the Capitol by the magazine’s Mark Arend, flanked by Governor Nathan Deal and former Georgia Economic Development head Chris Carr. Leading
You may remember back in May 2015 when the Department of Community Health began to study a plan developed by Grady Hospital that would be able to provide health care to more of the poor without expanding Medicaid. This Medicaid waiver program would have used Medicaid dollars to set up locations that would provide care
Department of Community Health Commissioner Clyde Reese has been appointed to Georgia’s Court of Appeals. Governor Deal’s press release is as follows: Gov. Nathan Deal today announced the appointment of the Honorable Clyde L. Reese III, Esq. to the Georgia Court of Appeals. Reese will fill the vacancy created by the retirement of the Honorable
This week’s Courier Herald column: A funny thing happened on the way to way to passing a constitutional amendment to fix Georgia’s failing schools. The NEA – the largest national teachers’ union – decided to send several million dollars to Georgia to kill the measure via a group called “Keep Georgia Schools Local”. Don’t let
There’s no sense in sugarcoating any of this, 2016 has been a disastrous year for the Republican party and our national institutions. Nobody trusts the media. Hillary Clinton’s campaign insinuates that Russia is “meddling” in the Presidential election –to the benefit of Donald Trump. Polls are “rigged,” as is, according to Trump, the entire election.
This week’s Courier Herald column: When Georgia voters go to the polls between now and November 8th, they will be given a series of proposed constitutional amendments to consider. Four measures will be decided that could give the Governor more power to fix chronically failing schools, establish new taxes on strip clubs, provide political oversight
Rhonda Cook at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported last night that 13 people have been shortlisted for consideration by Gov. Nathan Deal for three open slots on the Georgia Supreme Court. Two of the three seats were newly created by the passing of House Bill 927 during the 2016 General Assembly session. The third seat is
Governor Nathan Deal has issued an executive order appointing a review commission to investigate a recent indictment made against the City of Dawson Mayor Christopher Wright. The 26 year-old mayor was indicted on 5 counts: aggravated child molestation, aggravated sodomy, child molestation, rape, and statutory rape on June 7th, 2016. The indictments followed an investigation
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
This week’s Courier Herald column: We’ve now clocked the fifteenth anniversary of September 11th. As is typical – and well deserved – we couple this remembrance of when terrorists killed over 3,000 on American soil with a recognition of the first responders that ran toward the danger rather than away from it. As a country,
