On the Thursday Dec. 15 edition of Georgia Today: Georgia Power is raising rates, TikTok has been banned for some Georgians, Atlanta protesters face terrorism charges, and students rally against guns.
Georgia Power Co. and regulatory staff have reached an agreement that would give the electric utility a $1.8 billion rate increase over three years. That's a little above the midpoint between the $2.9 billion that the electric utility proposed and the $529 million that staff said was justified.
Rapper Gunna has pleaded guilty in Atlanta to a racketeering conspiracy charge. He was arrested earlier this year along with fellow rapper Young Thug and more than two dozen other people.
The case suing the state for denying coverage of transgender-related health care in the Georgia State Health Benefit Plan was filed Wednesday in federal court in Atlanta on behalf of a staff accountant at the Georgia Department of Audits and Accounts, a school media clerk in Bibb County, and an anonymous employee of the Division of Family and Children Services on behalf of her young adult child who is enrolled in the state plan.
Two state employees and a public school media clerk are suing the state of Georgia. They say in a federal lawsuit filed Wednesday that the state employee health plan is illegally discriminating by refusing to pay for gender transition-related health care.
On the Wednesday Dec. 14 edition of Georgia Today podcast: Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger wants election changes, James Brown Arena in Augusta is reopening, and the USPS is honoring John Lewis.
Wednesday on Political Rewind: As the war in Ukraine continues, it's more than military aid that the people of Ukraine need. Bill Nigut speaks with Emory Morsberger, the Atlanta man who's been working to get humanitarian aid to the nation.
Ahead of the January 2023 legislative session, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger asked the General Assembly to consider ending general election runoffs in a statement released Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2022.