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6 days ago · ATLANTA - The Georgia Board of Education has adopted a requirement aimed at ensuring cooperation between local school systems and public safety experts in the design of …
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6 days ago · Kemp hammering home tort reform message. by Dave Williams | Jan 24, 2025 | Capitol Beat News Service. ATLANTA – The signs are clear as Georgia lawmakers prepare to resume the 2025 General Assembly session …
General Assembly kicks off 2025 session - capitol-beat.org
Jan 13, 2025 · ATLANTA – The General Assembly gaveled into session Monday with the usual pageantry and little of the heavy lifting that will be required to make it through the 40-day …
Georgia Chief Justice Boggs pitches judicial pay raises
1 day ago · ATLANTA – Georgia Chief Justice Michael Boggs used his annual State of the Judiciary address to members of the General Assembly Tuesday to plug two bills raising the …
2024: Trump turns the tables on Georgia Democrats
Dec 20, 2024 · ATLANTA – Politics dominated 2024 in Georgia, a presidential election year that saw former President Donald Trump turn the tables on Democrats in the Peach State.
Georgia Republican electors formally certify Trump’s victory
Dec 17, 2024 · ATLANTA – Georgia’s Republican presidential electors formally cast their votes for former President Donald Trump Tuesday in a ceremony at the state Capitol.
Carter eulogized inside U.S. Capitol Rotunda
Jan 7, 2025 · ATLANTA – The celebration of the life of former President Jimmy Carter moved from Atlanta to the nation’s capitol Tuesday, with a day full of pageantry capped by a memorial …
Trump win puts Georgia squarely back in red column
Nov 8, 2024 · ATLANTA – Georgia voters have reasserted the Peach State’s bona fides as a Republican stronghold. Four years after losing to Democrat Joe Biden by fewer than 12,000 …
Harris draws sharp contrasts with Trump at Atlanta rally
Nov 2, 2024 · ATLANTA – Vice President Kamala Harris delivered the closing arguments in her presidential campaign in Georgia Saturday afternoon, likely her last appearance in the Peach …