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Georgia considers heavier trucks despite official opposition

ATLANTA (AP) — It's the heavyweight lobbying battle of this year's Georgia legislative session: Should the state allow heavier trucks on its roads? The House Transportation Committee voted 18-11 on...

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Bill to raise weight limits passes House Transportation Committee 18-11 #gapol

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.@GADeptofTrans now mounting a furious attack on HB189, with a side of instruction on transportation engineering. We're 4.5 hours into this hearing. #gapol twitter.com/jeffamy/status…

now mounting a furious attack on HB189, with a side of instruction on transportation engineering. We're 4.5 hours into this hearing. #gapol

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The room is filled to the gills with lobbyists as the Transportation Committee takes up HB189, which would raise truck weight limit on state roads to 90,000 pounds from 80,000 pounds.

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This hearing just crossed the 200 minute mark #gapol #help #hostagesituation

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The room is filled to the gills with lobbyists as the Transportation Committee takes up HB189, which would raise truck weight limit on state roads to 90,000 pounds from 80,000 pounds.

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I count 25 members of the 34-member committee present. Lobbyists have been trying to get their allies out. #gapol

Chairman Rick Jasperse announces he will allow no amendments. #gapol

The room is filled to the gills with lobbyists as the Transportation Committee takes up HB189, which would raise truck weight limit on state roads to 90,000 pounds from 80,000 pounds.

Lawmaker: Actions by leaders in majority-white #Mississippi Legislature amount to ‘symbolic decapitation' of officials in Black-run capital city (from

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Lawmaker: Power struggle is 'decapitation' of Black-run city

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Black lawmakers in Mississippi are denouncing efforts by the majority-white and Republican-led state Legislature to grab power from the majority-Black and Democratic-led capital...

Georgia lawmakers seek to toughen penalties for dogfighting #gapol

Georgia lawmakers seek to toughen penalties for dogfighting

ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia could convict more people of dogfighting-related crimes and send them to prison for longer stretches under a bill advancing in the state Senate. The Senate Public Safety...

“The conflict escalated after she told the group, ‘Communism is great until you have to cook your puppy for dinner.’” #gapol

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Mark Niesse

@markniesse

“We were the ones threatened with violence" by a white woman who brought a gun to a polling place and argued with Black Voters Matter volunteers. Now she's under investigation following a vote by the State Election Board. #gapol bit.ly/3HIwsBS

Also Okefenokee Swamp day, including someone in an alligator costume. "These are Georgia gators, not Florida gators." #gapol

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Today is law enforcement day, public library day, doctors day, sickle cell disease day, young farmers day and 4-H day at the Georgia capitol. It's crowded. #gapol

Today is law enforcement day, public library day, doctors day, sickle cell disease day, young farmers day and 4-H day at the Georgia capitol. It's crowded. #gapol

PR pitch "More than half of Generation Z (born between 1997-2012) now live with their parents due to increasing financial concerns like inflationary rates, college debt, high rent costs and low-paying jobs." Or the fact that half of those people are under 18?

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⁩ backed measure seeks harsher Georgia gang sentences #gapol

Kemp-backed measure seeks harsher Georgia gang sentences

ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia senators advanced a bill Monday that would add a mandatory five years to prison sentences for anyone convicted of a gang crime and 10 years for anyone convicted of recruiting...

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and everyone

for making me sound smart on Gold Dome Scramble. #gapol

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Gold Dome Scramble: The budget makes it to the floor and the practice of “hoteling” kids in...

As the legislative session hits its stride hundreds of bills are being filed and the budget got a vote on the floor. WABE politics reporters Sam Gringlas and Rahul Bali […]

Feb 6

A Georgia Senate committee is advancing a bill that would instruct an agency to not require a college degree for a state government unless truly necessary. #gapol #gaedu

Bill: Cut college degree requirements for Georgia state jobs

ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia Senate committee is advancing a bill that would instruct an agency to examine qualifications for state government jobs and not require a college degree unless truly necessary.

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A continuing wave of antisemitic flyers could boost efforts to pass a Georgia law defining antisemitism after the home of the state's only Jewish lawmaker,

@epanitch

, was among those hit over the weekend. #gapol

Antisemitic flyers could spur action on proposed Georgia law

ATLANTA (AP) — A continuing wave of antisemitic flyers hit parts of suburban Atlanta, including the home of Georgia's only Jewish state legislator. State Rep. Esther Panitch, a freshman Democrat from...

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The House is introducing all the bills this morning. #gapol

Rural Georgia lawmaker wants Legislature to settle stink raised by casting sludge upon the soil -...

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Whoever did this has just measurably boosted the chances of a pending bill that would define anti-semitism in Georgia state law. #gapol

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@epanitch

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Welcome to being a Jew in Georgia-my driveway this morning.@SandySprings_PD came & took for testing. Govern yourselves accordingly, GDL and Anti-Semites who seek to harm/intimidate Jews in Georgia. I’m coming for you with the weight of the State behind me. #gapol @ADL @GBI_GA 1/2

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Welcome to being a Jew in Georgia-my driveway this morning.

@SandySprings_PD

came & took for testing. Govern yourselves accordingly, GDL and Anti-Semites who seek to harm/intimidate Jews in Georgia. I’m coming for you with the weight of the State behind me. #gapol

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Gulf coast residents tracking the Chinese balloon: “show me the spaghetti models”

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Two months before leaving office ,then-Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan and Senate leader Butch Miller led a delegation on a taxpayer-funded trip to Europe, The AJC has learned. The state refuses to say how much it cost. tinyurl.com/jzma57y #gapol

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: Rural Georgia lawmaker wants to give counties the power to regulate soil amendment practice that affected residents say is just waste dumping. #gapol georgiarecorder.com/2023/02/03/rur via

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Tankers hauling mystery sludge have been a common – and unwelcome – sight in rural Wilkes County for more than a decade, regularly filling the country air with a putrid aroma. But those haulers have...

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Bills that take aim at Georgia prosecutors who refuse to charge crimes are a lot of things. But in part they are a continued fight over the direction of Athens-Clarke County, the hometown of ⁦

@BrianKempGA

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Georgia bills aim at prosecutors who refuse to charge crimes

ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia's elected prosecutors could face disciplinary sanctions, removals or easier voter recalls for declining to bring charges for misdemeanors under two bills introduced Thursday.

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Georgia bills aim to discipline, remove or recall prosecutors who refuse to charge crimes #gapol

Georgia bills aim at prosecutors who refuse to charge crimes

ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia's elected prosecutors could face disciplinary sanctions, removals or easier voter recalls for declining to bring charges for misdemeanors under two bills introduced Thursday.

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If the center sees the back of the cutter’s defender, throw the pass, the back door is open. #ThingsILearnedAtPrinceton

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Army Men's Basketball

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Feb 2

Jared Cross with the game winning layup

#GoArmy @PatriotLeagueTV #PLTop3 #SCTOP10

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Fired Clayton County executive assistant claims she was framed by former boss, chairman

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This is a complicated saga...

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The fired executive assistant for Clayton County Chairman Jeff Turner claims she was framed by her former boss and still can't believe what has happened.

A Georgia senate panel is advancing a bill to permanently ban public schools and most other state and local agencies from requiring people to get COVID-19 vaccines. Lawmakers imposed a one-year ban in 2022, but it expires June 30 if not renewed. #gapol

Georgia lawmakers could bar COVID-19 vaccine rules for good

ATLANTA (AP) — Some Georgia senators want to permanently block schools and most state and local government agencies from requiring people to get vaccinated against COVID-19. In 2022, lawmakers put a...

Local school superintendents have been complaining about the 67% health insurance increase the state is forcing on districts, now the House wants to kick in $100M to help and phase in the increase over three years. #gapol #gaedu

Georgia House aims to ease health insurance costs on schools

ATLANTA (AP) — House budget writers in Georgia want to shift $100 million into the state employee health plan to reduce the sting of health insurance premium increases for public school districts....

Nikki Haley is expected to launch her campaign for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination on Feb. 15. She was South Carolina's governor for six years before serving as President Donald Trump's ambassador to the United Nations.

Nikki Haley planning Feb. 15 launch for 2024 White House bid

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Nikki Haley is moving closer to making her presidential campaign official. On Wednesday, supporters of the former South Carolina governor will get an email invitation to a Feb.

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Banker Johnny Chastain tops Sheree Ralston in north Georgia House runoff as Sam Watson cruises to south Georgia Senate seat and two Republicans advance to runoff in northeast Georgia House race. #gapol #gaelex

Banker tops Ralston widow in Georgia House race; Watson wins

ATLANTA (AP) — A north Georgia banker defeated the widow of late House Speaker David Ralston to win Ralston's old House seat in a Republican runoff Tuesday, while a Republican former House member...

Republican Sam Watson has easily won the Senate District 11 race in south Georgia, beating a Democrat and Libertarian to succeed former Sen. Dean Burke. #gapol #gaelex

According to final unofficial results, banker Johnny Chastain has beaten Sheree Ralston, the widow of House speaker David Ralston, in the House District 7 runoff #gapol

Eager to see what

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Brian Lyman

@lyman_brian

Jan 31

Good morning! For the last few months I've been working with my colleagues here in Alabama and the good folks at @statesnewsroom on this project. On Feb. 7, we're launching Alabama Reflector, an independent, nonprofit news site. #alpolitics (1) alabamareflector.com

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After telling his colleagues he wasn't one for drama,

@Vote_matt_brass

has taken his predecessor's tradition of walk-up music up a notch and began the Rules Committee complete with a Top Gun-themed video and costume. #gapol

Voters today to make choices in 4 vacant Georgia legislative seats #gapol #gaelex

Banker tops Ralston widow in Georgia House race; Watson wins

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Georgia faces hurdles to get foster children out of hotels #gapol

Georgia faces hurdles to get foster children out of hotels

ATLANTA (AP) — Dozens of Georgia’s most troubled foster children are housed in hotels or state offices each night, because the state can’t find a better place for them to stay. But officials trying...