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Mother of Secoriea Turner urges Jackson to stop using her daughter’s name, image in campaign ads
Attorneys for the family of 8-year-old Secoriea Turner, killed during Atlanta’s 2020 unrest, call the Republican’s attack ads against Keisha Lance Bottoms “morally irresponsible.”
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Three Georgia counties flagged by Trump administration for using non-English election materials
Gwinnett, Cobb and DeKalb counties appear on a DHS list of jurisdictions offering non-English election materials, described in an email as outlining “requirements for prosecution of voter related charges.”
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US House leaves for campaign break without action on AI, affordability
With midterms looming, House Republicans send lawmakers home for a seven-week break — leaving AI regulation, healthcare costs and other unfinished business for after the election.
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Rick Jackson pledges ‘intelligent’ Medicaid expansion, but offers few specifics
Rick Jackson’s plan seeks enhanced federal Medicaid funding without fully expanding coverage — a combination that has never been approved and that his campaign can’t explain how it would work.
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Georgia continues to rank near the bottom of nation on worker’s rights
According to a new report from Oxfam, workers in Georgia are at the bottom when it comes to pay, workplace safety, and more.
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Bookman: Secrecy and tax breaks pave the way for surge of unpopular data center proposals in Georgia
Georgia is handing out $2.4 billion in tax breaks for data centers the AI boom would have built anyway while shutting communities out of decisions that affect their water, power and air.
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Blair wins race to finish late Georgia congressman’s term and makes history in the process
Everton Blair will finish the late Congressman David Scott’s term.
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Kindergarten vaccine rates still below 90% in Georgia, with exemptions on the rise
Vaccine rates for diseases like diphtheria, measles and polio hover around 88%.
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Public health improvements stall amid Trump’s DEI crackdown
A grant from the Environmental Protection Agency was supposed to stem decades of environmental harm. But the funding was stripped as priorities shifted in Donald Trump’s second presidency.
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Bookman: Jackson’s policies don’t bode well for Georgians whose lives mirror his own early years
Rick Jackson, who is the Republican nominee for governor, has made his difficult childhood the centerpiece of his campaign.
