Georgia politicians, literacy leaders and students gathered at the Georgia State Capitol to recognize the 2025 Georgia Reads Community Award winners and READBowl Champions on Feb. 25 as part of an ongoing effort to boost reading levels statewide. Former football player and literacy coach Malcolm Mitchell pumped up the crowd of pre-K to high school […]
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Like neighbors who’ve had a falling out, Kemp and Perdue chew over old grievances
Never has a politician made the next election so much about the last election. Straight off the bat in the first of three debates with Gov. Brian Kemp Sunday night, former U.S. Sen. David Perdue declared that the 2020 election was “rigged and stolen” and that all the nation’s current woes, from inflation to illegal immigration to the threat of being drawn in to the war in Ukraine, “all the madness” of the Biden administration, can be traced back to Kemp’s decision to cave in to the “radical Democrats” who stole the election in Georgia.
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Ominously, we may look back on this session with fondness
The frantic last day of every General Assembly session brings with it an overlay of nostalgia, as retiring members make their farewell speeches and the denizens of the Golden Dome enjoy the flimflamorous pageantry of Sine Die. This year that sentiment was especially appropriate.
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First in quitting, second in firing, Georgia economy weathers the pandemic pretty well
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.
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Georgia takes center stage: The Almanac of American Politics 2022 chapter on the state
his month’s publication of The Almanac of American Politics 2022 marks 50 years since the publication of the 1972 almanac. When the Saporta Report published the 2020 almanac’s Georgia chapter two years ago, I called it a sort of time-lapse photo of the American political landscape, midway between journalism and history. So it is with this year’s chapter.
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Who ever heard of an ex-president getting involved in a lieutenant governor’s race? Now we have
Donald Trump just can’t get Georgia off his mind. Now he’s jumped in the middle of the lieutenant governor’s race.
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The next election cycle begins, on waves of restless cash
With a flurry of checks and a rally for the governor, the 2022 campaign got off to the closest it will come to an official start last week. It seems early still, but we’re less than a year away from the May 24 primaries and the June 24 runoffs.
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With a new administration, Spaceport Camden’s liftoff looks in doubt
In his eerily prescient 1865 novel, “From the Earth to the Moon,” Jules Verne wrote about an intense rivalry between Florida and Texas to determine which state would be the site of the first moon launch. In the book, as in reality a century later, Florida won. Jules Verne didn’t write about Georgia, but it, too, has at times cast an ambitious eye on the heavens.
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MAGA, abortion and transit
By King Williams en·mi·ty /ˈenmədē/ noun the state or feeling of being actively opposed or hostile to someone or something. Earlier this week we saw the defeat of mass transit expansion in Gwinnett to start the week. And by the end of the week, we saw one of the most restrictive abortion bills in the […]
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Get Ready to Vote for the Georgia Outdoor Stewardship Act
By Andrew Feiler Advisory Council Member, The Trust for Public Land in Georgia As the 2018 legislative session came to a close a few days ago, a bipartisan group of Georgia lawmakers passed the Georgia Outdoor Stewardship Act (GOSA). As a fifth-generation Georgian, long-time advisory council member of The Trust for Public Land and an […]
