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3 weeks ago | 
thecurrentga.org | Dave Williams |Susan Catron
ATLANTA – The Georgia Department of Transportation (DOT) is seeking public input ahead of two planned open houses this month on a plan to widen Interstate 16 west of Savannah. The project would widen the heavily traveled highway from two lanes to three in both directions from the I-16/I-95 interchange west to Georgia 67 in Bulloch County, a distance of 32 miles.
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3 weeks ago | 
thecurrentga.org | Susan Catron |Dave Williams
ATLANTA – A Fulton County Superior Court judge has issued an injunction staying enforcement of Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger’s order disqualifying Daniel Blackman from next month’s state Public Service Commission (PSC) Democratic Primary ballot.
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1 month ago | 
thecurrentga.org | Erica Meltzer |Susan Catron
Girls had closed long-standing gender gaps in math test scores and were doing about as well as boys on standardized tests in the years leading up to the pandemic. But the gender gap in math has come roaring back. And according to a new analysis from the testing and research organization NWEA, girls seem to have fallen further behind since students returned to in-person school. NWEA also found that fewer girls were enrolling in algebra in eighth grade than before the pandemic.
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1 month ago | 
thecurrentga.org | Dave Williams |Susan Catron
ATLANTA – Gov. Brian Kemp signed a $37.7 billion fiscal 2026 state budget Friday, a spending plan that prioritizes education and prisons. “(This) budget makes important investments to meet the needs of our growing state without growing government or adding to our long-term liabilities,” Kemp said during a signing ceremony at the Georgia Capitol.
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1 month ago | 
thecurrentga.org | Stanley Dunlap |Susan Catron
Georgia’s U.S. senators say they are outraged at the prospect of large job losses for clean energy workers if the Republican Congress implements its proposed cuts to the Inflation Reduction Act. Georgia Democratic U.S. Sens.
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1 month ago | 
thecurrentga.org | Marlon Hyde |Susan Catron
In recent months, Georgia’s film industry has struggled to grab major productions and has been in a slow decline. Since the state beefed up its tax credit in the early 2010s, major-grossing films like those from “The Fast & Furious,” “The Avengers” and “The Hunger Games” series have taken base here. But now, Randy Davidson, CEO and founder of Georgia Entertainment, is saying that the Peach State may be facing a distinctive shift in its production output.
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1 month ago | 
thecurrentga.org | Stanley Dunlap |Susan Catron
Charlie Bailey, a former attorney general and lieutenant governor candidate, was elected as chairman of the Democratic Party of Georgia Saturday, replacing Atlanta U.S. Rep. Nikema Williams. Bailey becomes the Democratic Party of Georgia’s first full-time chair as the party intensifies its efforts to fundraise and campaign for candidates and reenergize a base after setbacks following the 2020 historic elections for U.S. Sens. Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff.
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1 month ago | 
thecurrentga.org | Corey Johnson |Susan Catron
More in this seriesA group representing firearms owners has asked three federal agencies to investigate how the gun industry’s main lobbying group secretly used the intimate details of weapons buyers for political purposes.
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2 months ago | 
thecurrentga.org | Rebecca Grapevine |Susan Catron
Groups that work to provide access to vaccines, especially for Black Georgians and others in underserved communities, are among those affected as the state Department of Public Health absorbs a $334.2 million loss from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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2 months ago | 
thecurrentga.org | Jackie Llanos |Susan Catron
Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez held his mother in a tight embrace and wept following his release from the Leon County Jail Thursday evening, where the U.S. citizen was held after his arrest for illegally entering Florida as an “unauthorized alien.” An official with Homeland Security Investigations in Tallahassee took Lopez-Gomez, a 20-year-old born in Georgia, to a Wendy’s near the jail, where he reunited with his mother after spending more than 24 hours under arrest following a traffic stop in...
