Given what we’ve been through in the pandemic, Georgia’s financial condition isn’t so bad. In fact by some measures, we’re better off than we were.
You can always tell it’s an election year by the bills that get introduced at the beginning of the General Assembly session. Both Republicans and Democrats have introduced “red meat” bills designed to stir up ...
Waxing a little too metaphorical, White House senior advisor Cedric Richmond said that by giving his big speech on voting rights in Georgia, President Joe Biden was “going right to the belly of the beast.” ...
At the end of one year and the beginning of another, two big stories, the prolonged pandemic and the protracted battle over ballots, dominate the news. But the story of the decade is the one ...
By Tom Baxter The death of former U.S. Sen. Johnny Isakson, a little more than a month after the death of former U.S. Sen. Max Cleland, brings this political year to a somber close. It’s ...
The last thing he wanted to do, former Sen. David Perdue told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution last week, was run a campaign. Yet here he is.
Considering how long the political world of Georgia has been waiting for Stacey Abrams to show her hand, she picked a curious day to announce that she’s in the 2022 governor’s race.
By Tom Baxter If there wasn’t so much riding on it, next year’s secretary of state race would be great fun to watch. Between the two parties, the race has all kinds of storylines, with ...
Politics in Georgia has some jagged edges, which reveal themselves when the maps are redrawn. Some of Democratic U.S. Rep. David Scott’s voters will be represented by Republican U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on the ...
Asian-Americans have not only been the fastest growing demographic group in Georgia over the past decade, but in terms of producing political leadership they have punched above their weight.
t isn’t just the sports section that gives us cause to celebrate. State revenues are through the roof, with overall tax collections rising 30 percent in September and 23 percent in October. Revenue collections have ...
He came and he chopped. But on a night when the Braves were riding high, former President Donald Trump’s visit to Truist Park for the fourth game of the World Series didn’t draw that much ...
By Tom Baxter When you think about who in recent Georgia political history Stacey Abrams can be compared to, one unexpected name rises like a giant balloon above the rest. Like Abrams, Newt Gingrich was ...
By the time the General Assembly convenes in a couple of weeks, legislatures around the country will be fully engaged in the struggle between turf protection and political overreach that we call redistricting. What we ...
There’s a low-end and a high-end explanation for why so many jobs are going unfilled right now. Neither fully explains what’s going on.
At the website sorryantivaxxer.com, you can scroll through page after page of entries about people who scoffed at vaccinations and masks, even the existence of COVID-19, and then were stricken.
It’s a testament to the impact of computerization that for their study of this year’s redistricting in Georgia, the Princeton Gerrymandering Project and Fair Districts GA generated a million legislative and congressional maps to assess ...
By Tom Baxter Exactly why do we need the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, or HIPAA, as we call it today? There are some perfectly reasonable answers to that question. But from ...
By Tom Baxter People in South Carolina turn their lights on and off the same way people in Georgia do. But over the past four years, the two states have diverged dramatically in their relationship ...
By Tom Baxter At summer’s end, Georgians have a lot to be thankful for, though most of us may not know it. The Washington Post reported Saturday that 32 percent of Americans live in counties which ...
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