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LocalGALawmakers consider hiking fines for insurers who flout Georgia’s mental health parity law
Georgia officials on both sides of the aisle are proposing legislation aimed at holding insurance companies accountable when they fall short of the long-held promise of mental health parity, which is the idea that insurance coverage for mental health should be on par with coverage for physical health. The push comes after Georgia Insurance Commissioner […]
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LocalUTWhat to keep in your winter emergency car kit
A winter emergency car kit can include food and water, a set of jumper cables and an ice scraper, warm clothing, and shoes or boots for the snow.
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UDOT advises drivers to plan for nightly one-way traffic in Provo Canyon
The Utah Department of Transportation will limit sections of U.S. Route 189 in Provo Canyon to one-way alternating traffic beginning Monday night and extending to Saturday.
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Georgia shows the way in fix for pet overpopulation
Feb. 24 is World Spay Day and February is Spay and Neuter Awareness Month in Georgia. February is also Feline Fix by Five month, a reminder to have kittens fixed before they turn five months old. That focus on prevention is important for two reasons: First because fixing animals is the only way to fix […]
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Georgia House passes stripped down ‘Mandi Ballinger Act,’ opting to instead study ‘raise the age’
The Georgia House on Friday passed a bill to create a special committee to study raising the age of juvenile court jurisdiction to include 17-year-olds, but stopped short of taking action to prevent 17-year-olds from being tried as adults. House Bill 1061, originally written to shift 17-year-olds away from the adult criminal justice system to […]
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Republicans shoot down Democratic effort seeking to expand Medicaid in Georgia
Democrats attempted to pass Medicaid expansion on the floor of the Senate in a legislative maneuver that was quickly shot down by their Republican counterparts Friday. The bill they hoped to amend, Senate Bill 440, was originally intended to update and modernize laws around the state Department of Public Health. Sen. Kay Kirkpatrick, a Marietta […]
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Georgia’s most prominent GOP woman lawmaker will retire, Trump shoutouts and more
The return of President Donald Trump to Georgia was the big political news this week, with the president visiting a Rome steel plant to promote his economic agenda and his allies as early voting got underway to replace former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene. But it was also a big week for announced departures. House Speaker […]
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Trump dismisses affordability woes, boosts allies at northwest Georgia steel plant
ROME, Ga. – In a freewheeling hour-long speech at a northwest Georgia steel plant, President Donald Trump sought to boost his second-term economic agenda ahead of November’s pivotal midterm elections. “We have the most people working in history, and just recently, we crossed two milestones,” he said Thursday. “They thought it was totally impossible when […]
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Georgia State Election Board declines to seize control of Fulton County elections, for now
WINDER, Ga. — Georgia’s State Election Board did not move to take control of Fulton County’s elections at a closely watched meeting this week, but at least one board member left the door open for future intervention. In the aftermath of a widely publicized raid on the county’s election warehouse in January, there has been […]
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Georgia fines former First Liberty principal as part of alleged Ponzi scheme investigation
The Secretary of State’s Office has ordered a former principal of the now-defunct lending firm First Liberty Building and Loan to pay a $500,000 fine for alleged investment fraud. In an order filed Wednesday, Brant Frost V is accused of selling securities and offering investment advice to First Liberty investors without being licensed to do […]
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Former U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young: Photographs from the past a reminder that ‘freedom is not free’
Civil rights icon Andrew Young issued a blunt warning Tuesday that liberties won during the 20th Century are under threat, but he also said he believes people today have the necessary tools to protect them. Speaking at the launch of a project to digitize 1.8 million Civil Rights Movement-era photographs in Atlanta, the 93-year-old former […]
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Pridemore leaving PSC, eyes Georgia’s 11th District seat
At a luncheon talk to the Golden Isles Republican Women’s group on Thursday, Public Service Commissioner Tricia Pridemore cheered on the Trump administration’s deregulation efforts and discussed what she sees as young women’s unnecessary anxiety about climate change. But she didn’t mention the 2026 PSC race. There’s a good reason why. On Tuesday she announced […]
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Chatham County teacher killed in crash by suspect fleeing ICE
A Chatham County elementary school teacher en route to work early Monday was killed after a man trying to flee federal immigration agents rammed her vehicle on Whitefield Avenue near the Truman Parkway, according to county police. Linda Davis, a longtime teacher at Herman W. Hesse K-8 School was pulled from her crushed Lexus sedan […]
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The race is on to replace former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene in northwest Georgia district
Early voting began Monday in the race for Georgia’s 14th Congressional District, and candidates are racing to set themselves apart from the crowd – and often from the district’s previous representative, former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene. Greene resigned from her seat last month, spurring more than 20 candidates to throw their hats in the ring, […]
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Trial begins for Apalachee High School shooting suspect’s father
In opening statements on Monday, prosecutors made the case that the Georgia man whose teenage son is accused of carrying out the deadliest school shooting in the state’s history more than a year ago is also responsible for the attack. The shooting at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia, left students Christian Angulo and Mason […]
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Shift away from embalming has lawmakers rethinking Georgia’s requirements for funeral home directors
The demographics in Georgia are changing, and so is the way people choose to ceremoniously depart this world. Embalming, or the practice of preserving a body to delay decomposition, was the preference of most Georgians just a few decades ago, says Sen. Rick Williams, a Milledgeville Republican and a licensed funeral director and embalmer for […]
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Lawmakers push plan to lift Georgia’s lagging literacy rates
A majority of Georgia’s third graders – 62% – are not reading proficiently, according to the Georgia Council on Literacy. That’s a big deal because research suggests reading proficiency at this age is a major predictor of future success, with kids who cannot read well by third grade four times as likely to drop out […]
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Advocates ask regulators to reconsider Georgia Power expansion
This coverage is made possible through a partnership between WABE and Grist, a nonprofit environmental media organization. Environmental groups are asking state regulators to reconsider some of the Georgia Power expansion they approved late last year. In a meeting Thursday, the Georgia Public Service Commission added the request to its agenda for next week. Georgia […]
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Senate Republicans sign off on cuts to Georgia’s income tax rate while ending some corporate perks
Senate Republicans passed a proposal Thursday to reduce the state’s income tax while cutting some of the state’s tax credits for corporations despite Democratic pushback in a hours-long debate. Vidalia Republican Sen. Blake Tillery, who is running for lieutenant governor and who is sponsoring the proposal, said that the legislation is “tailored to address the […]
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Bill allowing Georgia pharmacists to prescribe HIV prevention drugs clears Georgia House
Georgia residents may soon be able to access HIV prevention medicine at their local pharmacy if a bipartisan push from state lawmakers to make the drugs faster and easier to access is successful. Senate Bill 195, which was introduced by Rome Republican Sen. Chuck Hufstetler, would allow pharmacists to both prescribe and administer medication, known […]
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