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Good problem for General Assembly - what to do with surplus
The 2024 session of the General Assembly starting Monday is expected to feature renewed debate over issues lawmakers have wrestled with for years, including private school vouchers, legalized ga
Assembly kicks off new session Monday
A new session of Georgia’s General Assembly begins Monday in Atlanta, and being the start of Year 2 of a cycle, plenty of bills will already be in play as legislators return to the dome.
Tax cut now in effect
A $1 billion election-year tax cut the Republican-controlled General Assembly passed last year went into effect on New Year’s Day.
Plenty of statewide politics played out in Georgia in 2023
Feds: Fatal chemical release was ‘preventable’
The release of fatal liquid nitrogen at a poultry processing plant in Gainesville nearly three years ago was “completely preventable,” according to a newly released federal report.
Georgia, Alabama bury hatchet in longtime Chattahoochee case
The states of Georgia and Alabama have reached an agreement expected to end a long-running legal dispute over water allocation from the Chattahoochee River Basin.
New House, Senate district maps clear redistricting committees
The Georgia House and Senate redistricting committees approved new district lines for their respective legislative chambers Thursday, in keeping with a court ruling that the current district map
Assembly goes into session for new maps
Georgia’s General Assembly will begin a special session today with a public hearing on the new proposed maps for the state House and Senate and the U.S. Congressional districts.
Atlanta lands 2025 MLB All-Star Game
Atlanta was awarded Major League Baseball’s 2025 All-Star Game Thursday, two years after the game was pulled from Georgia during a flap over voting reform legislation state lawmakers had passed