Gov. Brian Kemp and Attorney General Chris Carr are seeking to prevent the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) from enforcing the mandate on workers at Medicare and Medicaid-certified facilities.
Tuesday on Political Rewind, defense lawyer Kevin Gough called for another Black pastor, the Rev. Jesse Jackson, to be removed from the Brunswick, Ga., courtroom in the trial of the three white men charged with murder in the death of Ahmaud Arbery, a young Black man.
Dr. Jonathan Lewin is stepping down as Emory Healthcare CEO and chairman after six years — a period that saw strong growth in the Atlanta-based system.
Currently, 40 Black women are members of the Georgia General Assembly, making up 16.9% of the entire state Legislature — a national record, according to the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University.
Once the maps receive Kemp’s signature, they will represent a big win for the Georgia GOP, though it’s likely too early to say whether they will be able to hold on to the new districts through the next redistricting in 2030.
A bill that creates new boundary lines for state Senate districts heads to Governor Brian Kemp's desk.
Rather than wait for a verdict from a Muscogee County jury, Mark Jones has pleaded guilty to ethics violations -- he's also resigning from his post as the regional district attorney.
A bill that creates new boundary lines for state Senate districts heads to Governor Brian Kemp's desk. GPB's Stephen Fowler has the latest from the Legislature’s redistricting special session.
And Superior Court Judge Timothy Walmsley denied mistrial requests today in the Ahmaud Arbery death trial. Defense attorneys claimed crying from the gallery where Arbery's parents sat with the Reverend Jesse Jackson tainted jurors.
A House vote of 96-70 along party lines sent the Senate legislative redistricting map to the governor’s desk — joining the House map approved last week.
A judge is denying requests to declare a mistrial in the case of three white men charged with killing Ahmaud Arbery. Defense attorneys said jurors could have been tainted when they heard weeping in the gallery and saw civil rights icon Rev. Jesse Jackson sitting with Arbery's family.
Whale Week is underway in Savannah, Ga., from Nov. 15 through Nov. 21, 2021. Each year between November and April, endangered North Atlantic right whales, Georgia's official state marine mammal, migrate to the Southeast's warmer waters to calve. All Things Considered host Rickey Bevington talks to Paulita Bennett-Martin, a co-founder of Whale Week.
The Rev. Jesse Jackson has joined the parents of Ahmaud Arbery in court as testimony continues in the murder trial of three white men. Superior Court Judge Timothy Walmsley declined a request by defense attorney Kevin Gough to have Jackson leave the courtroom.
Monday on Political Rewind: Race continues to be a central theme in the case of Travis McMichael, Gregory McMichael and William "Roddie" Bryan — three men charged with murder in the Ahmaud Arbery shooting. Meanwhile, President Joe Biden is scheduled to sign the long-awaited infrastructure bill.
By the end of September, only 9% of the initial $552 million from Georgia’s Department of Community Affairs-administered Georgia Rental Assistance Program went to renters and landlords, far below the 30% threshold set by the Treasury Department.
The bipartisan $1.2 trillion infrastructure spending bill Congress passed early this month promises massive investments in Georgia highways and bridges, public transit, electric-vehicle charging stations and broadband deployment.
