Ty Tagami is a staff writer for Capitol Beat News Service. The award-winning reporter spent 22 years covering education for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
A fixture in the leadership of Georgia’s House of Representatives will step down when her term ends this year, declining to run for re-election after nearly a quarter century in office.
Data centers in Georgia did not produce the same high payback in exchange for nearly half a billion dollars in tax breaks as reported by state auditors last month, according to a correction issued Wednesday.
If Congress ultimately approves the legislation that the U.S. Senate adopted Monday to end the government shutdown, it could throttle the multibillion dollar hemp consumables industry.
Voters in the Lawrenceville area will fill an empty seat in the Georgia House of Representatives on Tuesday, in the first of several elections between then and into December to address recent vacancies in the General Assembly.
