A bill that would bar transgender athletes from playing on girls’ sports teams passed a Senate committee Wednesday and could head to the Senate for a full vote.
Perdue’s lawyers say a bill signed into law by Kemp last year leaves the former senator at an unfair fundraising disadvantage by allowing high-ranking elected officials, including the sitting governor, to raise unlimited cash during the three-month legislative session leading up to the party primary using special “leadership committees.”
With several nationally watched races in 2022, Georgia candidates for U.S. Senate, House and other top offices are raising (and spending) serious money.
Georgia’s Student Access Loan program was established in 2012 as a last resort for students who had exhausted their other options. In the last school year, it helped about 5,600 students with nearly $28 million in loans across 78 institutions at public, private and technical schools.
On this week's episode, we take a deeper look at a story reported with the Center for Public Integrity and NPR about what Lincoln County can tell us about the present — and future — of the fight for voting rights.
Legislation intended to keep politics out of school board elections advanced out of the Georgia Senate Rules Committee and is expected on the Senate floor on Wednesday.
Three years after the state allowed local production of low-THC oil, families who celebrated then still can't legally access the treatment. Now lawmakers are under pressure to revisit the broken medical cannabis system.
Criminal justice reform advocates in Georgia want to build on recent momentum with new legislation to remove barriers that make people with criminal records five times more likely to be jobless than Georgians overall.
