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Ga. Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger visits Columbia County Sheriff’s Office
"We've been doing these regional tabletop exercises, it's really about election security," Raffensperger said. "We've been doing cyber security, physical security and just making sure everyone understands that Georgia will have a safe, secure, accurate election coming up here in November."
Solar power interests spotlight potential Georgia growth of clean energy to legislative study panel
Several solar industry insiders made a pitch to a Georgia House committee on Wednesday for the economic and environmental benefits of establishing a community solar program that allows Georgia Power customers to purchase electricity from small-scale solar developers. Rep. Beth Camp, a Concord Republican, said the House Energy, Utilities, and Telecommunications Ad Hoc Committee on […]
New documentary celebrates Georgia's decades of innovative 'certified peer specialist' training
LISTEN: A new documentary examines peer counseling and its impact on mental health treatment. GPB’s Ellen Eldridge reports on, “Stigma to Strength, Georgia and the Certified Peer Specialist Movement.”. Since the late 1980s, Georgia has led the way in training professional peer counselors with substance misuse and mental...
GA Agriculture Commissioner details efforts to crack down on traffickers hiding drugs in produce
The Agriculture Commissioner of Georgia says his department is taking aggressive action to intercept drug shipments dropped off at the Atlanta State Farmers Market in Forest Park.
Democrats blast Kemp for refusing federal funds for student summer meals
ATLANTA – Legislative Democrats urged Gov. Brian Kemp Tuesday to accept federal funding for a program that provides low-income children with free meals during the summer when school is not in session. Georgia is one of 12 states that did not participate in the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Summer EBT Program this summer and isn’t […] The post Democrats blast Kemp for refusing federal funds for student summer meals appeared first on The Atlanta Voice.
Georgia officials say Kennedy, 2 others have signatures for presidential ballot as disputes remain
ATLANTA (AP) — Three independent and third-party candidates got one step closer to appearing on Georgia’s presidential ballot on Tuesday. But legal challenges still loom. Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger announced that officials have verified that independents Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Cornel West and Claudia De la Cruz of the Party for Socialism and Liberation each collected more than the 7,500 signatures needed to qualify. Raffensperger said 11,336 signatures were accepted for Kennedy after county election officials reviewed petitions, while 8,075 were accepted for Cornel West and 7,682 were accepted for De la Cruz. While Democrats, Republicans and Libertarians have secure places on the Georgia ballot, other parties and independent candidates can qualify by petition.
Fund to help GA property owners impacted by Hyundai wells reaches $1 million
A fund to help property owners whose private wells are impacted by the extraction of underground water to serve Hyundai Motor Company’s electric vehicle and battery manufacturing site near Savannah has grown to $1 million, officials said Tuesday. Hyundai, lured to the state in part by more than $2 billion in incentives,...
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