2024年6月25日 · The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal of a lawsuit filed by four Black Fulton County residents who argued that electing members of the PSC statewide diluted Black voting strength in violation of the federal Voting Rights Act.

2024年11月6日 · Correction at 12:28 p.m., Nov. 7, 2024: Coleman is not a first-time candidate.He ran for sheriff against Al St. Lawrence in 2004. Three first-time or non-incumbent candidates for sheriff in Coastal Georgia won these powerful law enforcement posts, as voters chose change and reform in these positions that control jails and solve crimes within county lines.

2025年2月1日 · After losing his reelection bid last summer, Georgia State Court Judge Stephen Yekel turned to a loophole in state law that could have erased the result and blocked the winner from taking office.

2024年10月22日 · Amendment 2 would move tax case appeals from the Superior Court of Fulton County to the Georgia Court of Appeals.Tax cases are first heard by the Georgia Tax Tribunal, which is part of the state Office of State Administrative Hearings.. Referendum A is a proposal to allow a bigger ad valorem tax break on personal property up to $20,000.. However, it does not apply to motor vehicles, trailers ...

2023年8月25日 · Emergency Police: 911 NAMI National HelpLine:(800) 950-6264. The Georgia Crisis and Access Line: 1-800-715-4225.. National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: (800) 273-8255 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline: Call 988. Peer Support “Warm Line”: (888) 945-1414 The Georgia Mental Health consumer-directed “warm line” for anyone …

2024年11月20日 · This coverage is made possible through a partnership between WABE and Grist, a nonprofit environmental media organization. The number of longleaf pines is increasing across the Southeast, with some of the biggest improvements in Georgia, according to a new study from the U.S. Forest Service.. Some 57 million acres of longleaf pine forest once stretched across the southeast from Virginia to Texas.

2024年12月17日 · The court filing seeks an injunction against the city and its attempts to close the shelter. “Federal law protects the right of religious groups such as The Well to use their land to help others,” said Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division in a press release.

2024年5月10日 · The Georgia Water Coalition released its annual report Thursday on the biggest threats to healthy waters throughout the state by highlighting the unintended consequences of record economic development in the coastal region and how a rash of new state-of-the-art data centers is a threat to Georgia’s rivers.

Jake Shore covers public safety and the courts system in Savannah and Coastal Georgia. He is also a Report for America corps member. Email him at [email protected] Prior to joining The Current, Jake worked for the Island Packet and Beaufort Gazette newspapers based near Hilton Head Island, SC. His work won several awards for …

2024年12月28日 · Atlanta was the setting of the now infamous CNN debate that put President Joe Biden’s frailty on full, unfiltered display for the American public in late June. The debate exposed the president’s vulnerabilities, though he and his supporters dismissed it as a bad night, and led to intense scrutiny of Biden’s fitness and raised …