Category: Tom Baxter

“It’s just a simple redrawing. We pick up five seats.” This week’s special election in Virginia is the latest in a long path of unintended consequences which have followed those words.

On the day when the Artemis II crew reached the greatest distance any humans have traveled from earth, the headline story was President Donald Trump’s announcement of the dramatic rescue of a downed U.S. airman in Iran.

f there were no other way to tell this was an election-year session, you could have guessed from a Senate amendment which made its way on to a House bill as the General Assembly neared Sine Die last week.

People who care about sports worry about the ways micro-betting and live betting are creating new ways for corruption to seep in to games. But there is more to worry about than sports.

When Democrats defeated two Republican incumbents to win seats on the Public Service Commission last November, it was considered pretty big news here in Georgia. After all, it was the first time since 2006 that a Democrat had won a statewide race.

here was a story in the Columbus Ledger last week which puts much of the news from the Golden Dome in sharp perspective.

You can’t exactly say that having the way cleared so that he could get an endorsement from the Republican National Committee is the worst thing to happen to Lt. Gov. Burt Jones this year.

Last week marked the end of an 88-year-old record, as the Gallup Organization announced it will no longer publish favorability ratings of public figures, including the president.

he Democratic strategist James Carville used to say that “business” candidates were like bananas: the longer they stayed on the shelf, the worse they looked.

’m one of the most counted people in the United States, and maybe you are too. I’m a registered voter in Fulton County.

Georgia and Minnesota don’t share a border, but last week they came just a smidgen closer to each other.

For a General Assembly which has come to town trumpeting affordability as its goal, a revision to a recent report published last week by the Georgia Department of Audits and Accounts should have been a dash of cold water in the face.

Suppose history had unfolded in a slightly different way, so that computers driven by huge steam engines had existed in Queen Victoria’s day, and giant helium-powered airships had been deployed in the American Civil War?

As this election-year General Assembly nears, the state of Georgia finds itself in much better shape than many of its citizens.

hen the Affordable Care Act subsidies end next week, nearly 300,000 people in Massachusetts and 400,000 in Pennsylvania could see their premiums skyrocket. In Georgia, the number affected will be up around 1.3 million.

In a bulletin published last week, the Georgia Department of Revenue took on a question that might have piqued the curiosity of the philosophers of old. It concerned the end of the penny.

’Tis the season of medical deadlines, this year more than ever.

You might have thought Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene was stretching it last week when she spoke about her fears for herself and her family. You might even have thought she had some of that coming. Take a look, then, at Indiana.

ess than a week after Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene appeared on The View, President Donald Trump abruptly folded on the question of releasing the Epstein files. There’s a straight line between these developments, if this wasn’t already obvious from their posts on Truth Social and X.

The Public Service Commission races in Georgia last week probably had the least to do with Donald Trump directly, and the most to do with the issues that are likely to dominate politics over the next several years, of any statewide elections in the country.