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Mon., January 31, 2011 8:24am
A new bill requiring zero based budgeting will be introduced in the state House today. It would require state agencies to justify their budgets from the ground up.
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Fri., January 28, 2011 9:42am
The state’s new schools superintendent says a new formula for calculating graduation rates likely will mean Georgia’s will drop significantly. That's what John Barge told a joint education committee of state lawmakers this week.
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Fri., January 28, 2011 8:52am
Hours after a Senate attempt to undo an outgoing veto be ex-Gov. Sonny Perdue, the House on Thursday declined to back up its sister chamber, with its leader saying he prefers working with his current boss to picking a fight with his former one.
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Thu., November 18, 2010 10:43pm
With most of Georgia's Republican US House delegation signed on to a "no earmark" pledge, the fate of Georgia's biggest economic development project falls to Senators and some Democrats. GOP leaders in the new Congress say they won't pass a budget with unpopular so-called "pork barrel" spending. But that might include harbor deepening at the Port of Savannah.
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Fri., July 30, 2010 4:21pm
The President visited Savannah in March to promote a relatively minor part of a massive energy bill. The U.S. Senate has all but killed any possibility of a major energy bill this year. But the Savannah-stumped HomeStar program survives.
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Thu., April 29, 2010 7:33am
Georgia will have about $3 billion less in its budget than what it had only
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Mon., April 26, 2010 8:08am
Candidates for hundreds of state offices on Monday began the political ritu
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Fri., February 12, 2010 10:18am
Governor Sonny Perdue says he is supporting a plan that would give Atlanta’
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Wed., November 4, 2009 5:17am
On the coast, former State Representative Buddy Carter won the senate seat
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Thu., September 3, 2009 10:31pm
The Georgia House and Senate have been at odds over how to get taxpayers to