The Sierra Club on Thursday asked a Fulton County Superior Court judge to order the state’s utility regulator to review its decision to allow Georgia Power to raise rates to pay for the disposition of coal ash – in part because terms of disposal are still pending approval from the state.
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Coal ash settlement in N.C. a guideline for Georgia – bury in lined basin or recycle
A legal settlement over coal ash in North Carolina has resulted in the type of outcome Georgia environmentalists would like to reach here – excavation of coal ash from all of a power company’s unlined basins, and placement in an onsite lined landfill or recycled for industrial use.
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Questions linger over which way Georgia’s criminal justice system will trend
“Justice” is in the eye of the beholder
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Georgia WIN List celebrates 20 years, announces its slate – ‘20 for 2020’
By Guest Columnist MELITA EASTERS, executive director of Georgia’s WIN List
As Georgia legislators grapple with how to divide a smaller budget among a variety of state services, the growing percentage of women legislators has shifted both how discussions of issues take place under Georgia’s Gold Dome and which issues are discussed.
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Georgia lawmaker’s legislation could help usher PadSplit into the mainstream
As Atlanta-based start-up PadSplit grows, its founder and CEO Atticus LeBlanc has been hoping government regulations could be enacted that would help add an extra element of legitimacy to the fledgling operation.
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How Georgia received what MLK later called a ‘promissory note’ of freedom
Martin Luther King, Jr. called the Declaration of Independence a “promissory note” of freedom. Now, the very letter John Hancock sent to Georgia in 1776 announcing the former colonies’ independence from Great Britain has just sold at Sotheby’s.
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Kemp doubles down on public safety policy in Georgia Chamber speech
More details on other policies to come.
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Top Georgia House Republican: a fan of film tax credit, not so much of Atlanta airport takeover
Georgia House Speaker David Ralston would maybe modify, but not overturn, policies that Atlanta’s watching.
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New partnership unites Georgia Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, OUT Georgia Business Alliance
The Georgia Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and OUT Georgia Business Alliance, formerly known as the Atlanta Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce, have created a partnership to improve their services to members and the community.
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Georgia Stand-Up at 15: Trading up, Showing up, Building up — together
“I want them saying, ‘I’m a member of Georgia Stand-Up and we did this.'”
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Georgia Political Primer
By Dentons Despite the absence of state and federal elections this year in Georgia, political theater has been active in our state of late and will be heating up even more in the next few weeks. This political primer will quickly catch you up on the latest Georgia political news in anticipation of Dentons’ Georgia […]
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All-male boardrooms gone among Georgia’s top public companies
For women serving on boards of Georgia’s public companies, 2019 was a good year.
OnBoard, the nonprofit that tracks the presence of women directors and officers on Georgia’s public company boards, says in a new study that for the first time in the organization’s 27-year history, the top 50 public companies in Georgia all now have at least one woman on their boards.
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Georgia’s Center for Victims of Torture Fights Stigma To Provide Mental Health Care To Thousands in the U.S. and Around the World
By The Center of Victims of Torture Kidane* was tortured while serving in the Eritrean military. The beatings were so damaging, he could no longer work. He escaped to the refugee camps in northern Ethiopia, where he isolated himself, staying away from others, alone with his shame and dark thoughts. But he found rehabilitative care at CVT […]
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Georgia governor proposes modest increase in Medicaid spending; critics say it’s not near enough
For Kemp’s team, it’s ideally a short-term assist that would boost folks into the kind of jobs that come with health care benefits. For critics, it’s a plan that leaves too many people out.
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Kendeda Building opens at Georgia Tech as inspiration to ‘change the world’
Georgia Tech opened to the public on Thursday the Kendeda Building, which intends to stand as an example of what its benefactor envisions as, “an impetus for new ways of approaching the world we want to live in.”
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Georgia lawmakers hearing about affordable housing shortfall statewide
In some parts of the state, even a “pretty good job” won’t get you on the property ladder or in a convenient apartment. It seems like a chance for Democrats and Republicans, rural and urban, to get together on some policy.
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Judge hits pause on plan to restrict abortion in Georgia
A federal judge in Atlanta says that there’s got to be a day in court for a law that would nearly close the door on abortion in Georgia.
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A Georgia vote reveals innate tension between energy, environmental policies
The complete story of last week’s vote in Congress to ban offshore oil drilling isn’t evident in the final tally of votes. A “No” vote from Georgia’s representative from the coast belies his efforts to support the opposition to drilling off Georgia’s coast that’s been voiced by his constituents and Gov. Brian Kemp.
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Georgia AG joins 49 others in Google antitrust investigation
U.S. attorneys general including Georgia’s Chris Carr are asking whether Google has crossed the line from aggressive business practices into illegal, monopolistic ones. It’s not the first time AGs have banded together to investigate a company.
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Georgia loses one of its great unsung heroes – George Berry
George Berry, one of the Georgia’s greatest public servants, passed away Saturday night.
Whether working for the city of Atlanta, the state of Georgia or Cousins Properties, Berry was one of the most influential leaders in the state for several decades beginning in the 1960s through the 2000s.
