Republican U.S. Rep. Rich McCormick held a town hall Thursday evening where a large group of constituents voiced their displeasure with recent actions of the Trump administration.

The lineup of the sold-out concert at the Macon City Auditorium features Warren Haynes, Derek Trucks, Susan Tedeschi, Oteil Burbridge, Jaimoe, Chuck Leavell, Devon Allman, Duane Betts, Charlie Starr, Jimmy Hall, Lamar Williams Jr. and more.

When enslaved people fled bondage in the 19th-century South, their enslavers were often forced to describe the people they considered property as human beings in "runaway slave ads" in newspapers. 

Republican U.S. Rep. Rich McCormick held a Thursday night town hall where a large group of constituents voiced their displeasure with recent actions of the Trump administration.

Two months of recalculating has made little difference in a list of Georgia's lowest-performing schools. 

On the Thursday, Feb. 20 edition: Georgia Democrats sound the alarm over possible cuts to Medicaid; lawmakers advance measure for affordable child care; and Postmaster Louis DeJoy prepares to step down.

Early voting was already underway when a judge canceled the grassroots referendum last fall.

The Legislature passed Georgia’s Mental Health Parity Act in 2022. Since then, the Carter Center and mental health care advocates have remembered the day by visiting lawmakers and asking agencies to hold insurance companies accountable for keeping the state law.

Georgia lawmakers propose a new pre-trial hearing.

Postmaster Louis DeJoy to step down.

Members of the United Campus Workers union and their supporters gathered in downtown Atlanta protesting federal funding cuts affecting higher education and clinical studies across the state.

Legislation that would make it easier for defendants in death penalty cases to establish intellectual disability as a defense cleared a Georgia House committee Wednesday.

In the House, members passed a couple of bills related to criminal justice. The business of farmland then took up most of the Senate's attention and two bills dominated the rules calendar.

United Campus Workers protest Trump’s cuts to federal funding; mental health advocates observe Mental Health Parity Day at the state Capitol.

On the Feb. 19 edition of Georgia Today: State House Republicans consider ending Georgia's participating in an interstate voter roll check; Sen. Jon Ossoff seeks answers from DOGE about veterans health info; and if you don't snow for jury duty, you could face a disappointed Georgia judge. 

On Tuesday, the Georgia House Committee on Education heard legislation that would help guarantee students' and schools' safety, health and well-being to prevent school tragedies before they occur.