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April 27, 2023 Georgia.gov Gov. Kemp Signs Public Safety and Anti-Gang Legislation Staff reports that Gov. Kemp signed SB 44 today at the Georgia Sheriffs' Association Command Staff Conference. He also signed several other pieces of legislation designed to support…

April 26, 2023 Georgia.gov Gov. Kemp Signs Legislation Cutting Red Tape for Women-, Minority-, and Veteran-owned Businesses Staff reports that Gov. Kemp, accompanied by First Lady Marty Kemp, Rep. Soo Hong, Sen. Mike Hodges, local and state leaders, and representatives…

April 25, 2023 Augusta Chronicle Reps. Rick Allen, Jeff Duncan tour Plant Vogtle, advocate for more nuclear construction Abraham Kenmore reports, after touring the as-yet uncompleted fourth reactor at Plant Vogtle, U.S. Rep. Rick Allen, R-Augusta and U.S. House Energy,…

April 24, 2023 Macon Telegraph Federal incentives have sparked a $12 billion clean energy manufacturing boom in Georgia Gautama Mehta reports that companies have invested billions of dollars to build large-scale manufacturing plants in Georgia after Congress passed two bills…

April 21, 2023 Georgia Recorder Georgia Power customers in for a shock as average monthly bill could rise by $23 by June Stanley Dunlap reports, starting in June, Georgia Power customers could experience another bout of sticker shock when they…

April 20, 2023 Georgia Recorder Governor signs bipartisan legislation to conserve Georgia farmland Jill Nolin reports that Gov. Brian Kemp has signed off on a new conservation program that is meant to stem the loss of farmland in Georgia. The…

April 19, 2023 Georgia.gov Gov. Kemp: Creative Home Ideas to Invest $15 Million in Liberty County Staff reports that Gov. Kemp announced on Tuesday that Creative Home Ideas, a YMF Company and design-house focused on home fashion, will create 70…

April 18, 2023 WSB-TV $1 billion arena with development bigger than the Battery proposed in north metro Zach Klein and staff report that the Battery in Cobb County is considered the gold standard for a mixed-used development in the United…

April 17, 2023 Georgia.gov March Net Tax Revenues Decline 3% Staff reports that the State of Georgia’s net tax collections for March totaled almost $2.68 billion, for a decrease of nearly $83 million or -3 percent, compared to March 2022, when net…

April 14, 2023 GPB Genetically engineered trees in a Georgia forest mark a first in the nation Grant Blankenship reports, Vince Stanley hopes the trees can turn this wetland into a grove of money makers for him and Living Carbon,…