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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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Rep. Tanya Miller wants to take on corporations as Georgia’s next attorney general
Rep. Tanya Miller says price fixing on rent and groceries deserves more scrutiny from the attorney general’s office. Her opponent, backed by President Trump, has a different set of priorities.
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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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Bottoms rolls out new policies as Georgia governor’s race tightens
With early voting set to begin in the coming weeks, both campaigns are betting that pocketbook issues and character attacks will move the small slice of undecided voters left in a race pollsters still call a toss-up.
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Medicaid expansion hinges on more than the governor’s race
As Democrats push to flip the Georgia House, a decades-old law means the fate of Medicaid expansion—and billions in federal dollars—rests with the Legislature, not just the governor’s mansion.
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Mike Collins’ Senate campaign embroiled in fresh wave of white nationalist scandals
New reporting on a former staffer’s extremist social media posts adds to a growing list of controversies over the Georgia Republican’s ties to white nationalist figures.
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U.S. Supreme Court lifts pause on Trump mail-ballot order
The Supreme Court’s conservative majority let Trump’s order overhauling mail-in ballot rules take effect while litigation continues, over a sharp dissent warning of “chaos” ahead of November.
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‘Flock Off’: Protesters confront Flock Safety at its annual conference
Outside Flock Safety’s annual conference, protesters made the case that the company’s surveillance cameras have gone too far.
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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%.
