Jonah’s Off Target Again
There are at least two problems with this analysis. One, although suburbanites who live around large cities have added to the Republican vote in the past, one has to qualify this generalization by noting the obvious .
Category Archives: Georgia
Tom Graves Applauds Roll Back Of CFPB Arbitration Agreements Rule
Rep. Tom Graves, chairman of the House Appropriations Financial Services Subcommittee, released the following statement after joining President Trump yesterday for the signing ceremony of H.J.Res.
Rural areas – already short on health resources – face enrollment hitches
Ms. Stella's, a home-cooking restaurant in Milledgeville, Ga., serves roast beef, grilled pork chops, chicken wings and oxtails with 24 sides from which to choose. Last spring, owners Jeri and Lucious Trawick opened a second restaurant in Eatonton, about 20 miles away, and Jeri decided to leave her full-time job to help shepherd the expansion.
APNewsBreak: Georgia election server wiped after suit filed
A computer server crucial to a lawsuit against Georgia election officials was quietly wiped clean by its custodians just after the suit was filed, The Associated Press has learned. The server's data was destroyed July 7 by technicians at the Center for Elections Systems at Kennesaw State University, which runs the state's election system.
Georgia lawmaker: Can people with HIV be ‘legally’ quarantined?
A Georgia state representative - who is also an anesthesiologist and the wife of the former federal Health and Human Services secretary - asked at a public hearing Tuesday about the legality of quarantining HIV patients to stop the spread of the virus that causes AIDS. "What are we legally able to do?" Dr. Betty Price, a Republican, asked Dr. Pascale Wortley, director of the HIV/AIDS Epidemiology Surveillance Section at the Georgia Department of Public Health.
Georgia Rep. Price says HIV comments taken out of context
Georgia Rep. Betty Price says her comments on people with HIV that ignited a national firestorm were "taken completely out of context." Price, the wife of former U.S. Health Secretary Tom Price, was in a legislative committee meeting Tuesday when she asked a state health official whether people with HIV could legally be quarantined.
Tom Price’s wife asks about ‘legally’ quarantining HIV patients
Tom Price's wife asks about 'legally' quarantining HIV patients The comments, made by former HHS Secretary Tom Price's wife, were rebuked by human rights and LGBTQ groups. Check out this story on USATODAY.com: https://usat.ly/2yxHHf4 Betty Price is pictured between Vice President Pence and her husband Tom Price as Tom Price gets sworn in as the Health and Human Services secretary earlier this year.
Colorado Premium opens Carrollton processing plant
Visitors to the Colorado Premium plant in Carrollton on Wednesday were given a tour to see how meat is produced in the factory. Visitors to the Colorado Premium plant in Carrollton on Wednesday were given a tour to see how meat is produced in the factory.
Solace or silence? Not all families of fallen get Trump call
President Trump is continuing to reject a Florida congresswoman's account of the commander in chief telling the widow of a soldier killed in an ambush in Niger that her husband "knew what he signed up for."
HHS Secretary Tom Price resigns amid private jet scandal
HHS Secretary Tom Price's high-priced flights on charter and military aircraft have led him to resign, leaving President Trump with another job opening. President Trump has accepted HHS Secretary Tom Price's resignation, White House says HHS Secretary Tom Price's high-priced flights on charter and military aircraft have led him to resign, leaving President Trump with another job opening.
Savannah wants segregationist governor’s name off bridge
This file photo from 1933 shows Georgia Gov. Eugene Talmadge in Atlanta. A populist Democrat who stoked fierce loyalty among rural whites in the 1930s and '40s, Gov. Talmadge unflinchingly defended segregation in Georgia.
Kemp in Carroll County: State needs to help rural Georgia
Secretary of State Brian Kemp said that if he is elected to be the next governor of Georgia, he will put an emphasis on supporting farmers, agri-business and small town startups. Secretary of State Brian Kemp said that if he is elected to be the next governor of Georgia, he will put an emphasis on supporting farmers, agri-business and small town startups.
500+ Marchers Join Atlanta Rally Against Ethnic Cleansing in Burma
The Georgia chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations today thanked the more than 500 Georgians who joined an Atlanta march yesterday against the Burmese government's ongoing ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims. During the march, which included almost 200 members of Georgia's Burmese community, activists called on Georgia senators David Perdue and Johnny Isakson to join Senator John McCain in supporting a Senate resolution that would condemn the Burmese government's violence.
40 years after ritual serial killings, a Stocking Stranglera Carlton Garya s appeals are running out
Saturday was the 40th anniversary of Columbus' first "Stocking Strangling," when 59-year-old Mary "Fern" Jackson was found murdered in her 2505 17th St. home. She brutally had been beaten and raped, and strangled with a stocking and a sash.
Power outages continue to drop in Georgia after Irma storm
Boats blown away from their docks sit in the marsh after Hurricane Irma on Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2017, at St. Marys on the Georgia coast.
Some GOP districts angry with Trump over young immigrants
Anthony Pham immigrated to the United States in 1982 from Vietnam and became a citizen five years later, after President Ronald Reagan signed an immigration law that sped the legalization process for millions of new Americans. Now a business owner and proud Republican in Georgia's staunchly conservative 10th Congressional District, Pham says he supports maintaining legal status for young immigrants living in the United States illegally who were brought to the country as children.
Trump action on young immigrants divides some GOP districts
Anthony Pham immigrated to the United States in 1982 from Vietnam and became a citizen five years later, after President Ronald Reagan signed an immigration law that sped the legalization process for millions of new Americans. Now a business owner and proud Republican in Georgia's staunchly conservative 10th Congressional District, Pham says he supports maintaining legal status for young immigrants living in the United States illegally who were brought to the country as children.
Georgia, South Carolina under hurricane watch as Irma nears
State troopers turned Interstate 16 into a one-way escape route for a few hours Saturday as evacuees packed cars and fled the Georgia coast ahead of Hurricane Irma, which forecasters said could cause widespread damage in the state from storm surge near Savannah to toppled trees and power lines far inland in Atlanta.
Heavy rain, high winds forecast when Irma reaches north Georgia
In this geocolor GOES-16 satellite image taken Saturday, Sept. 9, 2017, at 18:30 UTC , the eye of Hurricane Irma moves northwest just off the coast of Cuba and south of Florida.
Traffic on Interstate 95 northbound Thursday morning, Sept. 7.
Georgia Governor Nathan Deal has declared a state of emergency for 30 counties ahead of any potential impacts of Major Hurricane Irma. The 30 counties under a state of emergency are: Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Brantley, Bryan, Bulloch, Burke, Camden, Candler, Charlton, Chatham, Clinch, Coffee, Echols, Effingham, Emanuel, Evans, Glynn, Jenkins, Jeff Davis, Liberty, Long, McIntosh, Pierce, Screven, Tattnall, Toombs, Treutlen, Wayne and Ware Counties.