“Please don’t cut down this tree. How long do you think it took this tree to get this big and beautiful?… I love this old tree. Please don’t kill it. Leave it be. Thank you.”
The governor and speaker said Georgia’s first responders have weathered tremendous hardships in the last 18 months dealing with the coronavirus pandemic and a loss of respect for law enforcement that accompanied the national “defund the police” movement sparked by some street protesters last summer.
Currently, raw milk can only be sold for pet consumption in Georgia, and only goat farmers are currently licensed to sell it, not farms that produce cows’ milk for people to drink.
While much of the political world is focused on 2022 contests, Macon-Bibb County is less than two months from the first test of the state’s new election law.
Though the apple festival will still offer around 200 booths for attendees to peruse, that’s about 30 fewer than in previous years, and it’s been harder to drum up volunteers to help run the festival, said Jennifer Grimmer, president and CEO of the Gilmer County Chamber of Commerce.
Monday on Political Rewind: Former president Donald Trump’s rally in Perry over the weekend drew big names on the 2022 ballot for Republican. The event also stirred up controversy within the Republican party. Trump continued his attacks on Gov. Brian Kemp, exasperating the schism between loyalists to the former President and the main figures behind the state's Republican party.
Former President Donald Trump held a rally in Georgia Saturday for a hand-picked slate of Republican primary candidates who support his false claims about the 2020 election.
The number of overcrowded Georgia hospitals due to COVID-19 has come down significantly in recent weeks.
The danger of airborne transmission is significantly reduced if the kids and the bus driver are all wearing masks, Risks may climb within school districts that lack mask mandates
The Georgia Association of Voter Registrations and Elections Officials says pushing back qualifying and the spring primary date is necessary to finish complicated redistricting changes required by law.
At the Save America Rally in Perry Saturday, former President Donald Trump touted a slate of GOP primary challengers, attacked incumbent Gov. Brian Kemp and other Republicans deemed not loyal to his cause and continued to make false claims about winning the 2020 election.
With 44% of its population fully vaccinated, Georgia is running far behind the rest of the nation. For the state's Latino community, a population that has been disproportionately affected by COVID-19, vaccination rates are even lower. The Rev. Irma Guerra, a Mexican immigrant and minister at Christ Church Episcopal in Norcross, has used her platform to be a vaccine evangelizer and to dispel some of the misinformation about the vaccine through social media, her pulpit and going door to door.
The U.S. 11th District Court of Appeals heard oral arguments on Friday in the case of Georgia’s controversial law HB 481, also known as the “heartbeat bill” because it would ban abortions after a doctor can detect a fetus’ heartbeat. But judges were wary to push the case forward as the U.S. Supreme Court is set to take up Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, a case from Mississippi that bans most abortions after 15 weeks.
Former President Donald Trump's rally in Perry on Saturday promises to end with a fireworks show, but the real fireworks have come from his singular focus on upending Republican politics in Georgia after losing in 2020.
Friday on Political Rewind: A federal appeals court took up the question of Georgia's controversial abortion statute. The law, which would effectively outlaw abortion, never went into effect because of a lower court ruling. Also, Gov. Brian Kemp issued the formal call for a special session of the General Assembly to redraw Georgia's political maps.
Agriculture Commissioner Gary Black is one of the most popular politicians in Georgia, but even that might not be enough to win the Republican U.S. Senate primary in 2022.
