Friday on Political Rewind: The COVID-19 vaccines have been crucial to protecting health as the latest surge of COVID-19 cases continues to roll across Georgia and other states. Today, we explored the fascinating history of vaccines with one of the genuine heroes of global health, Dr. Bill Foege.
State Sen. Burt Jones (R-Jackson), an ardent Trump supporter and self-described "underdog," launched his campaign for lieutenant governor of Georgia by vowing to eliminate the state's income tax and electronic voting machines.
Republican U.S. Senate candidate Kelvin King is wrapping up a listening tour across all 159 counties that launches his campaign and will help him learn what issues Georgians want addressed.
Plenty of evidence exists supporting vaccination mandates in schools, workplaces and health care settings, doctors with Emory University School of Medicine said this week after full approval came from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine.
As the delta variant hits Georgia and across the country, Phoebe Putney Hospital in Albany continues to break records for COVID-19 cases, a bleak flashback to last year when Albany was a global hotspot during the onset of the pandemic.
The Georgia State Election Board has appointed a bipartisan three-member panel to initiate a performance review of Fulton County's elections board, the latest step in a lengthy process allowed under a new GOP-backed state law overhauling elections.
To say Georgia has changed over the last decade is an understatement, as a surge of new non-white residents flocking to urban and suburban cores has altered the balance of political power in a once-reliably white, Republican and rural-centric state.
When Georgia lawmakers convene this fall to draw new legislative boundaries, they will bring a political eye to the process, colored by partisanship and a distinct self-interest in the outcome.
The Senate Study Committee on Age of Mandatory Education, in its first meeting on Thursday, asked the Georgia Department of Education for more data on what measures would effectively reduce the state’s high school dropout rate, and how much raising the dropout age would cost.
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.
