ATLANTA (AP) — A media personality who co-founded a conservative political action committee has been appointed to a seat on the Georgia State Election Board, which is responsible for developing election rules, investigating allegations of fraud and making recommendations to state lawmakers. Georgia House Speaker Jon Burns, a Republican, on Friday announced the appointment of […]
President Joe Biden plans to visit with Georgia voters on Saturday ahead of his commencement speech at Morehouse College on Sunday, before heading to Detroit to meet small-business owners later that afternoon, according to a new memo shared with NBC News by the Biden-Harris campaign. He will also deliver an NAACP speech that night. Neither […]
Spring season means warm weather, flowers blooming and a visit from the plant eating green June beetle. “They begin to appear around late May, early June depending on where you are in the state,” said Will Hudson, extension entomologist and professor for the Department of Entomology at the University of Georgia. “Where they’re likely to […]
ATLANTA (AP) — Amy Kremer stood near the White House on Jan. 6, 2021, and told thousands of Donald Trump’s supporters that the 2020 presidential election was fraudulent. “Hello, deplorables,” she said, embracing a label Hillary Clinton once lobbed against Trump’s followers. Kremer, a conservative activist from suburban Atlanta, wasn’t part of the mob that […]
Georgia homeowners share horror stories of HOAs abusing power with excessive fees — here’s what is going on Homeowners associations (HOAs) have come under fire in Georgia for abusing homeowners with excessive fees and foreclosures. “None of it makes any sense,” said Karyn Gibbons, who received a foreclosure notice from her HOA in Gwinnett County, […]
Like many Georgians, Rati Khazalia believes he is in a “fight to save” his country’s democracy and free the Eastern European nation from Russia’s attempts to isolate it. “We’ve been betrayed by our government,” he said. “We’ve been sold to (Russia) for nothing.” The 29-year-old business owner who founded and runs a print shop in […]
What happened Georgia’s parliament on Tuesday defied mass protests to approve a controversial “foreign influence” bill that critics call a Kremlin-inspired threat to the country’s democracy and aspirations to join the European Union. Who said what The so-called Russian law has “echoes of legislation” Russian President Vladimir Putin pushed through in 2012, widely regarded as […]
On Monday, U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff was in Henry County to promote the passage of legislation he’s sponsored to help first responders, like police officers and firefighters, as well as teachers, buy their first homes. The Homes for Every Local Protector, Educator and Responder Act, which Ossoff sponsored alongside Florida Sen. Marco Rubio in March […]
STORY: ::A senior U.S. diplomat warns Georgia its ‘foreign agents’ law could put aid from Washington at risk :: James O’Brien / U.S. Assistant Secretary of State “If the law goes forward without conforming to EU norms and this kind of rhetoric aspersions against the U.S and other partners continue, I think the relationship is […]
An Alabama middle school principal was arrested and charged in the cold-case deaths of three people in Georgia more than a decade ago. The victims were found Jan. 13, 2013, after an officer in Union City, Georgia, saw a 2010 Dodge Charger abandoned in Fulton County, the Clayton County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release […]
Thousands of protesters rallied Tuesday in Georgia after parliament adopted a law to brand overseas-funded NGOs as groups under “foreign influence”, a measure Brussels has warned will undermine Tbilisi’s European aspirations. Lawmakers voted 84 to 30 in favour during the third and final reading of the law, which was widely denounced as mirroring repressive Russian […]
Georgia’s parliament has passed a law that critics see as a threat to media freedom and the country’s aspirations to join the European Union. Lawmakers defied weeks of large demonstrations in the capital that also featured anger at neighboring Russia. Here is a look at the law and the protests against it: WHAT DOES THE […]