Nominations being accepted for SagerStrong Hero Award
Nominations are now being accepted for this year's SagerStrong Foundation Hometown Hero Award. The award honors one pediatric leukemia patient annually who embodies what the...
Regents name former Deal budget chief acting chancellor
ATLANTA (GA Recorder) – The Georgia Board of Regents Wednesday selected Teresa MacCartney, a veteran of state higher education and government, to temporarily take...
Kemp signs last COVID-19 state of emergency executive order
Governor Brian Kemp Tuesday signed his last executive order extending Georgia's public health state of emergency amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
The final order will expire...
GOP stalls Senate Democrats’ voting rights push
WASHINGTON (GA Recorder) —U.S. Senate Republicans shut down efforts to open debate on a sweeping elections reform and voting rights bill brought to the...
Suit charges Georgia Dept. of Labor provided slow payments, bad service
(GA Recorder) — The Southern Poverty Law Center and an Atlanta-based law firm have filed a class action lawsuit against the Georgia Department of...
Warnock targets state takeover of local elections with new voting bill
WASHINGTON (GA Recorder) – U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock introduced legislation this week aimed at circumventing some of the pressure of partisan politics on state...
Judge weighs request to dismiss Fulton election lawsuit
(GA Recorder) — The future of a review of more than 145,000 Fulton County absentee ballots remains up in the air following a court...
Battle over Fulton absentee ballots back in court
ATLANTA (GA Recorder) — The court battle over a potential review of Fulton County’s 145,000 absentee ballots cast last November is set to resume...
College athletes score big win in U.S. Supreme Court
WASHINGTON (GA Recorder) — The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled Monday that the National Collegiate Athletics Association cannot limit educational compensation to student-athletes due to...
Georgia to remove over 100,000 names from voter rolls
More than 100,000 names will be removed from Georgia's voter registration rolls in an attempt to keep the state's voter files "up to date,"...
Insurer repays millions to 2 states — Georgia may be next
The corporate parent of a large Georgia insurer has agreed to pay a total of more than $140 million to two states over a...
Supreme Court ends challenge by Georgia, other states to Obamacare
(GA Recorder) — Health care advocates cheered a U.S. Supreme Court decision Thursday rejecting a challenge of the Affordable Care Act pushed by Texas...