Recent Headlines

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Jim Tharpe reports that health care advocates on Monday urged Georgia lawmakers to pass a dollar-a-pack cigarette tax as a way to save lives, reduce teen smoking and partially close an estimated $1 bil...

Marietta Daily Journal
Kathryn Dobies reports that anti-smoking advocates and Georgia health care providers conducted a rally at the state Capitol on Monday to promote a proposed $1 per pack tax increase on cigarettes. Representatives...

Athens Banner-Herald
Morris News Service reports that local school boards would have until October to adopt a code of ethics, and members who violate it could be removed by the governor, according to legislation the House approved Mon...

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Ernie Suggs reports, under a revised version of a controversial Senate gun bill, the University System of Georgia would be allowed to determine whether guns would be allowed on its campuses. But univer...

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Leon Stafford and Nancy Badertscher report that the Georgia House passed legislation Monday that’s viewed as critical to negotiations to keep the Atlanta Falcons playing in downtown Atlanta. The ...

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Aaron Gould Sheinin reports that, if there is a linchpin to the 2010 legislative session, the moment when the speculation over sink or swim ended, it most likely was when e-mail in-boxes all over the G...

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Nancy Badertscher and James Salzer reports that, after several years of steep state budget cuts and a drop in local property tax revenue caused by the recession, dozens of school systems, most of them ...

Augusta Chronicle
Rob Pavey reports that a bill that would place stricter regulations on interbasin water transfers is scheduled for introduction in the General Assembly this week.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Ernie Suggs and Nancy Badertscher report that they say it was not a “break,” but the two-week stretch that state lawmakers took to work on the budget has come to an end and the General Asse...

Athens Banner-Herald
Morris News Service reports that the second half of the 2010 legislative session begins today with the toughest decisions still pending. Lawmakers took a two-week recess after the 20th day of the 40-day session to...

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
James Salzer reports that the state will collect $960 this year from a $10 licensing fee it charges airports to “foster safer operating conditions.” “It’s a joke,” said Se...

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Craig Schneider reports that Grady Memorial Hospital, on the verge of financial collapse about two years ago, has reached financial stability and improved patient care, hospital officials said. That as...