This coverage is made possible through a partnership between WABE and Grist, a nonprofit environmental media organization. Eight candidates are running for two seats on the Georgia Public Service Commission […]
As the clock neared midnight Wednesday, Georgia Democratic state senators filed 20 amendments and several motions to protest and delay a bill that withholds state funding from schools and universities […]
President Donald Trump’s expansive new tariff regime flips on its head a decades-long global trend of lower trade barriers and is likely, economists say, to raise prices for Americans by thousands of […]
Legalizing online sports betting has failed once again to pass the Georgia Legislature. The Peach State remains one of only a few that have not fully legalized online sports gambling. […]
A Georgia bill that would reduce sentences for those who could tie their crimes to domestic abuse is on its way to becoming law. Women nationwide are in prison for […]
Boxed into what they saw as an unsavory vote on outlawing spending on gender affirming care for transgender prisoners, Georgia Democrats chose a third option Wednesday. They walked out. Chants […]
Local governments and school districts in Georgia can now rescind their decisions to opt out of a statewide homestead tax exemption approved by voters last November. Georgians voted to pass […]
President Donald Trump declared on Wednesday a 10% baseline tax on imports from all countries and higher tariff rates on dozens of nations that run trade surpluses with the United […]
The first few months of the second Trump administration has alarmed some of America’s veterans. Thousands of former service members have reportedly been laid off in federal job cuts. Now, […]
Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. offered no new details Wednesday about his massive restructuring of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the day after thousands of layoffs ricocheted through its agencies, […]
Republican state Sen. Brian Strickland has become the first candidate to file papers to run for Georgia attorney general in 2026. Strickland’s campaign filed with the state Ethics Commission on […]
Republican senators are meeting Wednesday morning with President Donald Trump at the White House as they push ahead on his big bill of tax breaks and spending cuts while delaying some of […]