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3 weeks ago | 
thecurrentga.org | Craig Nelson
More than nine years after Chatham County announced plans to build an up-to-date facility to ensure more comprehensive, organized responses to hurricanes and other natural disasters, county officials have approved a contract to build it. At the urging of its chairman, Chester Ellis, the Chatham County Commission on May 23 awarded a $78.8 million contract to build the emergency operations center to Reeves Young, a Metro Atlanta construction firm.
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1 month ago | 
thecurrentga.org | Craig Nelson
The clock is winding down on the Chatham Area Transit Authority’s current board of directors. Under a measure finally signed into law by Gov. Brian Kemp last week, the nine members of the current board must vacate their seats by June 30. A new, 11-member board will replace it the following day.
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1 month ago | 
thecurrentga.org | Craig Nelson
Casting himself as a genuine American conservative, Chatham County Commissioner Patrick Farrell signaled Sunday that he plans to enter the race for Coastal Georgia’s seat in U.S. Congress. “I’m the authentic candidate for this position,” Farrell told the Tybee Island Republican Committee, newly renamed One Tybee. With that self-portrait, he likened himself to the seat’s current holder, Earl “Buddy” Carter, who earlier this month announced his candidacy for the U.S. Senate and attended the meeting.
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1 month ago | 
thecurrentga.org | Craig Nelson
After announcing last week that he won’t run in next year’s U.S. Senate race, Brian Kemp went out of his way to make it clear he has no intention of coasting through his remaining 19 months as governor. “Just because my name’s not going to be on the ballot, that doesn’t mean that I won’t be on the political playing field,” Georgia’s two-term governor told reporters.
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1 month ago | 
thecurrentga.org | Craig Nelson
Legislation ensuring a woman’s right to in vitro fertilization in Georgia and a measure authorizing a memorial to the state’s first Black lawmakers topped the list of bills signed into law by Gov. Brian Kemp at a ceremony Thursday in Savannah. The ceremony, held at the Savannah Convention Center and attended by local lawmakers and business leaders, capped two days of official business in Savannah for Georgia’s Republican governor.
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2 months ago | 
thecurrentga.org | Craig Nelson
Buddy Carter’s refusal to hold an open, in-person town hall in Coastal Georgia’s largest city and county has fueled frustration and anger among their residents, Democrats and some Republicans alike. Now, even a stage prop intended to illustrate Carter’s absence at a public forum in Savannah last week, has sparked controversy, showing that even so-called empty-chair town halls can be become perilous in today’s politically toxic environment.
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2 months ago | 
thecurrentga.org | Craig Nelson
Now it’s Brian Kemp’s turn. Mounds of legislation approved by the Georgia General Assembly during its 40-day session, which adjourned Friday, now rest on the desk of the state’s governor and top Republican. Kemp already has signed into law some of the measures, notably the “religious freedom” bill. He has 40 days to consider the rest. Besides signing a bill into law, he can either veto it or do nothing, in which case it automatically becomes law.
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2 months ago | 
thecurrentga.org | Craig Nelson
At least a thousand anti-Trump demonstrators thronged downtown Savannah on Saturday to demand that the Trump administration cease cutbacks in federal programs and stop what they say are assaults on their rights under the U.S. Constitution. Chanting “Hey, Hey, Ho, Ho, Trump and Musk got to go,” the gathering of protesters, which was made up of at least as many people over the age of 40 as under it, snaked from the bandshell at Forsyth Park up Bull Street to City Hall.
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2 months ago | 
thecurrentga.org | Craig Nelson
Tech mogul and White House adviser Elon Musk has donated $6,600 to Buddy Carter’s campaign committee, boosting the Coastal Georgia’s congressman’s political profile ahead of a possible run for the U.S. Senate seat held by Democrat Jon Ossoff. “Thank you, Elon Musk! Together, we will #MakeAmericaGreatAgain!” gushed Carter in announcing the donation Wednesday on his Facebook page and the social media site X, which Musk owns.
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Mar 24, 2025 | 
thecurrentga.org | Craig Nelson |Jabari GIbbs |Jabari Gibbs
Amid outcry about the Trump administration’s cutbacks to federal programs and agencies, Republican leaders last month urged members of the House of Representatives not to hold town halls in their home districts. On Monday, Coastal Georgia’s congressman, Buddy Carter, spurned that advice. Kind of. The five-term lawmaker from St. Simons held a telephone town hall from Washington instead, fielding 11 questions in about 50 minutes.
