GPB News and the Georgia News Lab transcribed more than 18 hours of public comment offered by 289 people at 10 hearings across the state and online to track what Georgians are asking for in the mapmaking process.
Georgia legislators are scheduled to return to the Gold Dome in the fall for the redistricting process but Gov. Brian Kemp also has indicated that he will also task lawmakers with legislation to combat crime.
Here in Georgia, the state Environmental Protection Division has issued the first proposed permit allowing Georgia Power to press forward with plans to leave more than 1 million tons of coal ash in an unlined pit at Floyd County’s Plant Hammond near the Coosa River.
Governor Brian Kemp says mask mandates don't work and he's rejecting the CDC's recommendations that masks be required as kids go back to school in Georgia.
However, Kemp is not standing in the way of school districts making their own decisions on masks and vaccines.
Organizers at one Georgia university hope a new summer program on aging research will inspire the next generation of doctors who specialize in treatment of the elderly.
By 2034, there will be 77 million people age 65 years and older compared to 76.5 million under the age of 18, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. There are roughly 7,300 geriatricians practicing in the United States and the American Geriatrics Society expects 30,000 geriatricians will be needed by 2030.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued guidelines on July 27 stating that everyone in K-12 schools should wear masks indoors, even if vaccinated. Gov. Brian Kemp said he will not impose any statewide mask mandate, even as some school districts, including Atlanta, have mandated them for children and staff.
Monday on Political Rewind: Officials continue to resist establishing a statewide procedure for mitigating the possible spread of COVID-19 in schools. Cases are rising in some systems in the first week of classes. In Atlanta, public schools will begin offering vaccines to middle and high school students next week.
Hundreds of thousands of Georgians who lost income in the pandemic, falling behind on their rent payments and putting them at increased risk for eviction, just got another reprieve. After a previous CDC eviction ban expired earlier this week, the Biden administration has again frozen evictions, this time until early October. The new moratorium aims to cover renters in counties with “substantial” spread of the delta coronavirus variant. But for the state’s most vulnerable families living on the economic margins, the realities of finding and maintaining safe, affordable housing were much more complicated long before the pandemic hit.
Gov. Brian Kemp Friday defended his decision not to impose mask-wearing or vaccination mandates on Georgians to stem the latest surge in coronavirus cases, hospitalizations and deaths.
Georgia’s Environmental Protection Division appears poised to approve a storage plan that would allow the toxic material left over from burning coal to generate electricity, so-called coal ash, to remain potentially in the path of an underground aquifer feeding the Coosa River in Northwest Georgia.
Word that the high court was going back to online proceedings came less than a week after Verda Colvin was sworn in as the newest Supreme Court justice during a live ceremony inside the state Capitol and two months after the court resumed conducting in-person hearings at the nearby Nathan Deal Judicial Center.
The oil spill happened after workers dismantled a section of the Golden Ray nearly a week ago and the tide swept the oil under the environmental protection barrier that is set up around the ship.
Georgians want state leaders to restore deep budget cuts across education and health care. They also want investment in programs that will allow the state to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic and thrive.
Georgia's two Democratic Senators have filed a bill that guarantees the right to vote in federal elections.
More than 185,000 voters in Georgia could soon be removed from the voter rolls because they have not cast a ballot or been in contact with election officials within the past five years.
