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How will the Georgia Legislature impose lawsuit award limits? • Georgia Recorder Just a few days into Georgia’s 2025 legislative session, proposed new limits on lawsuit awards is a priority trumpeted by business groups, some lawmakers and the governor alike as one of the top issue...

New from @mayahoman.bsky.social: How will the Georgia Legislature impose lawsuit award limits? A 2024 insurance commissioner’s report offers clues.

Carter ushered in new era of race relations after Georgia’s long racially segregated history • Georgia Recorder Jimmy Carter's civil rights legacy as Georgia governor, speech on segregation, hiring Blacks in state government, hanging an MLK portrait.

Jimmy Carter once campaigned for governor with a very different message on race relations than the one he espoused once elected georgiarecorder.com/2025/01/10/c...

Former President Jimmy Carter starts last journey through Georgia from Plains to Atlanta • Georgia Recorder Former President Jimmy Carter may have only served one term as governor, but he left his mark in many ways before leaving for Washington, even literally. With a pencil, Carter signed the desk in the g...

Read the @georgiarecorder.com team report on Saturday ceremonies for Jimmy Carter georgiarecorder.com/2025/01/04/f...

Carter admirers will have chance to say goodbye as funeral services begin Saturday in Georgia • Georgia Recorder Members of the public who wish to pay their respects to former President Jimmy Carter will have several opportunities in the coming days. Carter died Sunday at the age of 100. He is the longest-lived ...

Well wishers who want to say goodbye to President Jimmy Carter at Georgia events this weekend have a few options, from Plains to Atlanta. @georgiarecorder.com staff will be on hand. georgiarecorder.com/briefs/carte...

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Bookman: Wealthy school voucher supporters send disapproving taxpayers the bill • Georgia Recorder School vouchers are unpopular. They are unpopular with liberal voters. They are unpopular with conservative voters. In modern American politics, it is rare to find such agreement, with voters of all s...

Columnist @jaybookman.bsky.social digs into the expansion of school vouchers despite unpopularity with voters georgiarecorder.com/2024/12/19/b...

Bookman: Kemp has complex political calculus ahead as he ponders leaving Georgia Governor's Mansion • Georgia Recorder Columnist Jay Bookman says Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp will need to factor in the success of the Trump administration in his political calculus.

Columnist @jaybookman.bsky.social analyzes future political future political options for Georgia’s governor georgiarecorder.com/2024/12/05/b...

A timely reminder by @georgiarecorder.bsky.social editorial cartoonist John Cole that Georgia farmers depend on immigrants to harvest food georgiarecorder.com/2024/11/27/j...

Bookman: Trump deportations, tariffs will stifle Georgia's farming and tax-subsidized EV industries • Georgia Recorder Columnist Jay Bookman opines that Georgia's economy will take a hit from tariffs and mass deportation withTrump administration.

Georgia Recorder columnist @jaybookman.bsky.social looks at what happens to business in the state if a Trump administration imposes steep tariffs and deports immigrants en masse. georgiarecorder.com/2024/11/21/b...

Planned central Georgia national park gains momentum with few days left before Congress adjourns • Georgia Recorder A proposal to turn a prehistoric American Indian site in central Georgia into the state’s first national park advanced out a U.S. Senate committee Tuesday. But the bipartisan group of Georgia lawmaker...

Georgia planned national park has bipartisan congressional support, but not much time left in 2024 georgiarecorder.com/briefs/plann...

Georgia appeals court cancels hearing to consider if Fulton DA can remain on Trump RICO case • Georgia Recorder Georgia court cancels Dec. 5, 2024 hearing on appeal to remove Fulton District Attorney Willis from Trump's 2020 presidential election case.

No reason given by court for cancelation of long-scheduled hearing georgiarecorder.com/briefs/georg...

Georgia fruit growers, state agriculture experts on alert for spotted lanternfly sightings • Georgia Recorder Larry Lykins has learned to roll with the punches when it comes to threats to his 14-acre Ellijay vineyard. His winery survived a virus spread via nursery plants several years after he bought the vine...

Georgia growers of grapes, peaches and other fruit are bracing for the invasion of the lantern fly georgiarecorder.com/2024/11/19/g...

In first meeting since Trump win, Georgia election board defers to Legislature to implement plans • Georgia Recorder GOP Georgia Election Board members vote Nov. 19 to ask state Legislature pass rules making public voter data lists for each election.

The Georgia election board is slowing its roll - georgiarecorder.com/2024/11/18/i... - our report via the Georgia Recorder's new Bluesky channel

State panel steering Georgia opioid settlement money recommends initial round of projects • Georgia Recorder This story was updated at 8:15 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 14, 2024.  A state panel has made its recommendations for how the first round of funding from a major $638 million settlement with opioid manufact...

Georgia State commission approves recipients for more than $44 million in opioid settlement money georgiarecorder.com/briefs/state...

@georgiarecorder.bsky.social editorial cartoonist John Cole takes a crack at summing up an eventful early November in Georgia: georgiarecorder.com/2024/11/13/j...

After Trump’s election, future murky for Fulton RICO case against president and Georgia allies • Georgia Recorder Fulton, Georgia District Attorney Willis deals with GOP President elect Donald Trump, defendants in 2020 election interference case.

Did Fulton DA Fani Willis make dozens of jurors sit in court hearings for many months weighing the 2020 election interference case against Donald Trump, all for naught? Very possible, as @georgiarecorder.bsky.social Senior Reporter Stanley Dunlap explains. georgiarecorder.com/2024/11/13/a...

Will end of endangered status for red-cockaded woodpecker reduce role of Georgia military bases? • Georgia Recorder The red-cockaded woodpecker’s population had dwindled when federal officials decided to classify the bird as endangered back in 1970.

I'm joining the Bluesky surge away from brand X with a post featuring new @georgiarecorder.bsky.social freelancer Leon Stafford's story that asks if downlisting of the red-cockaded woodpecker is a good thing or a bad thing. georgiarecorder.com/2024/11/12/w...

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Trump pleads not guilty, waives arraignment in Georgia 2020 election interference case - Georgia Rec... Ex-Republican President Donald Trump pleads not guilty in Fulton Georgia 2020 election interference case that will be live streamed online.

The latest from the Georgia Recorder on the indictments against Donald Trump and his 18 allies in the 2020 election racketeering case.

Live coverage from Fulton County: Trump, allies surrender in election interference case - Georgia Re... Former President Donald Trump and his 18 co-defendants have until noon Friday to voluntarily surrender after a Fulton County grand jury handed up indictments last week alleging a multistate plot to ov...

Georgia Recorder will post to a live blog today with updates from the Fulton County jail and courthouse.

Tweet by @kyliebytes Scoop: X/Twitter, is planning a major change in how news articles appear on the service, stripping out the headline and other text so that tweets with links display only an article’s lead image, acc...

Looks like switch to Brand X alternatives will accelerate as it grows less useful as a news feed.

Trump, allies start to forge bond deals ahead of expected booking at Fulton County jail this week - ... Former President Donald Trump agreed to a $200,000 bond order ahead of an expected booking in Fulton County Jail this week.

Donald Trump says he will turn himself in at the Fulton County jail Thursday as his GOP allies also arrange to bond out soon after they are booked. #gapol

Georgia Recorder summer fellow Aaleah McConnell reports the latest on the state's sad affordable housing crunch https://georgiarecorder.com/2023/08/19/no-quick-fix-for-georgias-affordable-housing-shortage/

Fingers crossed that this new alternative to Brand X is the answer. No doubt though that #BlueSky would be my walkup song if I was an MLB player.