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OpinionThey're coming to get me, hee hee, ha ha...5/6/09 (Blog) No, really, they are. I'm serious. You think I'm joking? Not. You have to read this one to believe it... More What? Not even lip service Mr. Obama?5/6/09 (Blog) Our new President has decided to shun the annual National Day of Prayer service and the Catholic breakfast held the following day. He says he's reverting back to the days prior to President Bush... More KudosJoe Doyle Selected as 2009 Henry Toll Fellow5/21/09 Governor Sonny Perdue announced today that Joseph B. Doyle, Director of the Governor’s Office of Consumer Affairs and Office of Customer Service, is one of 40 emerging state leaders from across the nation selected for the prestigious Toll Fellowship Program sponsored by The Council of State Governments... More
GovernmentBloomberg - Video: Cap-And-Trade Debate Continues5/7/09 Climate change legislation appears to be gaining momentum in Washington. Conflicts over the fine print of cap in trade could derail profits... More Secretary Handel Announces Enactment of Project VoteSafe4/5/09 Yesterday Georgia Secretary of State Karen Handel announced enactment of Project VoteSafe, a program to ensure that individuals under protective orders or residents of family violence centers are protected from having their addresses exposed during the voting... More County Governments Actively Involved in Land Conservation5/5/09 From small parks of just a few acres that provide an outdoors escape for local residents to large tracts that are nationally recognized for their natural resource and recreational value, county... More Military
EducationTwo Charter Schools Authorized by New State Charter Commission6/18/09 Two charter schools that originally were denied a charter by their local school districts were authorized by the Georgia Charter Schools Commission Thursday, making them immediately eligible to be funded at the same level as the traditional public schools in their respective... More "Celebration of Excellence" Honors Foster Youth Scholars5/27/09 (Blog) Graduating from high school and enrolling in college are milestones that most foster care youth don’t reach. Studies show that youth living in foster care are less likely to finish high school and more likely to end up homeless or in jail. Fewer than 3 percent of them earn college degrees... More
ARCHE Report Quantifies the Return
on Investing in Education in
5/24/09 The amount of education
Georgians attain plays a major role
in quality of life, job success and
many other measures of prosperity
for individuals and society,
according to a report released last
week by the Atlanta Regional Council
for Higher Education. Governor Perdue Announces 112 New Master Teachers in Georgia5/23/09 Friday Governor Sonny Perdue announced the names of 112 new teachers who have earned the “Master Teacher” certification, a designation based on appreciable gains in student achievement... More Graduation Test Results Continue to Improve5/13/09 Georgia's high school students continue to show steady progress on the Georgia High School Graduation Tests (GHSGT), including the science and English exams that are aligned to the state's more... More
SportsKool Kidz Classic Polo Tournament Returns September 126/4/09 FOCUS announced today that the Seventh Annual Kool Kidz Classic Polo Tournament will be Saturday, September 12 on the polo fields of Dr. & Mrs. Phil Beegle at Cedargate Farms in Newnan, Georgia. The Kool Kidz Classic historically has benefited the Kool Kidz Foundation. As of January 2009, the Kool Kidz Foundation merged with FOCUS, a 26-year-old nonprofit that also serves children with disabilities... More 3rd Annual Dragon Boat Races and International Festival6/2/09 Peachtree City Mayor, Harold Logsdon, has identified the Dragon Boat Races and International Festival as the “signature event” for celebrating Peachtree City’s historic 50 year anniversary. Mark your calendars for the 3rd annual Dragon Boat Races and International Festival, sponsored by the Rotary Club of Peachtree City, to be held at Drake Field on Lake Peachtree in Peachtree City, Saturday, September 26th ... More Gwinnett to Lease Stone Mountain Tennis5/20/09 Gwinnett commissioners agreed Tuesday to lease Stone Mountain tennis facilities that were built for the 1996 Olympics. The Stone Mountain Memorial Association (SMMA) owns the facilities, which are located in Gwinnett County. The 50-year, $1 per year lease agreement covers... More Team Reality Goes to Regional Climbing Championship5/6/09 Team Reality, located at Reality Climbing in Tyrone, has had all 13 climbers qualify for the USA Climbing 2009 Southeast Regional Sport Climbing Championship! The competition will be held at Active Climbing in Athens Georgia on May 9th. The Southeast Region includes Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi and South Carolina... More |
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PoliticsVisit our Political section to find out more about the growing list of candidates. Isakson Continues Push to Stimulate Housing Market6/11/09 Drawing on more than
three decades of experience in the
real estate industry, U.S. Senator
Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., introduced
legislation yesterday to invigorate
housing demand and to boost the
economy by expanding the first-time
homebuyer tax credit passed by
Congress earlier year. Campaign Update, Karen Handel for GA Governor5/21/09 Our campaign got off to a fantastic start last weekend. At the GOP State Convention in Savannah, we launched our "Bring It On" campaign, website and video in front of an enthusiastic crowd of committed Republicans. Our campaign video has already been viewed over 4,000 times online - follow this link to see it for yourself!... More Westmoreland Condemns Cover-up on Pelosi Charges5/21/09 U.S. Rep. Lynn Westmoreland today condemned House Democrats’ attempt to sweep Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s allegations against the CIA under the rug. “Speaker Pelosi has made serious
charges against the CIA, saying point blank that the agency misled
her and other members of Congress,” Westmoreland said. “I think she
needs to produce Isakson Praises Signing of Law to Investigate Economic Crisis5/21/09 Yesterday U.S. Senator Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., praised the signing by President Obama of a financial fraud bill that includes his proposal with U.S. Senator Kent Conrad, D-N.D., to create a Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission charged with fully investigating the causes of the near collapse of our financial markets and our economy... More Isakson Continues Push to Stimulate Housing Market, Expand Tax Credit for Homebuyers5/21/09 Yesterday U.S. Senator Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., introduced an amendment to the Fiscal Year 2009 Supplemental Appropriations bill that seeks to stimulate the nation’s declining housing market by expanding the current $8,000 homebuyer tax credit to include all individuals who purchase a home in the next year... More Austin Scott Calls on GOP to Fight for Conservative Values, Youth Vote5/19/09 Rep. Austin Scott, R-Tifton, took his campaign for governor to the Georgia Republican Convention in Savannah over the weekend. He called on party members to help him “rebuild” not “rebrand” the GOP by explaining to younger voters... More From the 2009 State GOP Convention:
Georgia Front Page at the Republican State Convention5/17/09 There was a whole lotta talkin' going on at the 2009 State Republican Convention! Candidates and vendors set up booths along the perimeter of the halls, enticing the 2,500 plus attendees to stop... More Richard Woods Speech, 2009 State GOP Convention5/15/09 I thank you for the opportunity to stand before you today and speak on the subject of education. Over the past 21 years, I have had the privilege of working for this great state and the community of Irwin County as a classroom teacher and administrator... More Karen Handel's Statement on Governor's Decision to Veto the “JOBS Bill”5/12/09 I am disappointed in Governor Perdue’s decision to veto HB 481. While I appreciate the Governor’s position that the tax cuts included in the bill would have made balancing our state budget... More John Oxendine Launches First Statewide Radio Commercials5/12/09 Republican front runner John Oxendine has launched the first statewide radio commercials in the 2010 Georgia Republican Primary for Governor. These positive, issue-driven commercials highlight the John Oxendine Contract with Georgia. Additionally, these... More More Politics:
Arts & EntertainmentThis June, Experience the Woodruff Arts Center with FREE & Discounted Events!6/4/09 Escape to the Woodruff Arts Center every Thursday night and Friday afternoon during the month of June for free entertainment, food and drink specials, and discounted tickets to see the High Museum of Art’s newest exhibitions: Monet Water Lilies and Richard Misrach: On the Beach... More Eugenia Price Exhibit to Open at St. Simons Island Lighthouse6/4/09 The Coastal Georgia Historical Society celebrates the life of Eugenia Price with a new exhibit opening in the St. Simons Lighthouse Keepers Dwelling on Saturday, June 13. Museum-goers will have a chance to explore Price’s life behind her acclaimed novels, visualize her research techniques and draw connections between the characters she created and their basis in the historical record... More 36th Annual Helen to the Atlantic Hot Air Balloon Race5/27/09 The long distance race to the Atlantic begins, weather permitting, at 7:00 AM Thursday, June 4th, 2009. If it is too windy or storms are forecast, take-off will be postponed until conditions are acceptable for flight... More LeAnn Rimes to Appear at the Fred June 5th & 6th5/27/09 The Fred, Peachtree City’s premier 2500 seat outdoor amphitheater, continues the Lexus of South Atlanta Summer Concert Series on June 5th and 6th with country music super-star LeAnn Rimes. Tickets are still available and may be purchased at... More Gwinnett: Murder Mystery Theatres a Great Bargain5/27/09 (Blog) New Shows Planned Due to Popular Demand Gwinnett County Parks & Recreation’s Murder Mystery Dinner Theatre is back by popular demand with a second new shows on June 12 and 13 at George Pierce Park Community Recreation Center in Suwanee... More Atlanta Lyric Theatre Presents CABARET June 12 – 285/21/09 Atlanta Lyric Theatre presents the Tony-Award winning musical CABARET June 12th through the 28th, 2009 at the Earl Smith Strand Theatre, Home of Atlanta Lyric Theatre (117 N. Park Sq., Marietta). The decadent world of 1930s Berlin comes to life in this Tony Award-winning musical masterpiece. An English nightclub singer, an American writer, a German landlady and a Jewish shopkeeper... More Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Opens Second Classical Season5/21/09 Music Director Robert Spano and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus will open the second classical season at Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre at Encore Park, the Orchestra’s new 12,000-seat state-of-the-art facility located in Alpharetta, GA (north of Atlanta), on Saturday, June 20, 2009, at 8:00 p.m. The concert will be led by Mr. Spano and feature Soprano... More Crashers Invade Georgia Shakespeare5/20/09 Georgia Shakespeare, a professional theatre company known for its bold interpretations of classic plays, has announced a new social group geared towards Atlanta's young professionals, the Shakespeare Crashers... More "I Dream of Trains" Art Show at the Gwinnett Historic Courthouse5/6/09 Photographs by local
artist, Stan Susky, are featured in
the Spring/Summer Art Show at the
Green Day Coming to Gwinnett Aug 15/5/09 Green Day are touring in support of their long-awaited eighth studio album 21st Century Breakdown, which will be released globally by Reprise Records on Friday, May 15th, 2009. Singer-guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong, bassist Mike Dirnt, and drummer Tre Cool have been at work writing, arranging, and... More |
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Richard Blais One-Day Only Interactive Cooking DemonstrationVariety Playhouse, Saturday, June 27; Tickets on Sale
Now Your HomeBug Stethoscope Designed to Find Headbanging Termites5/23/09 Pester a colony of termites in an infested home, and the bugs will bang their heads against the tunnels they have dug in the walls. Though this sound is inaudible to human ears, it can be picked up by a new electronic stethoscope under development at the University of Mississippi and may provide a new, nondestructive way to find the colonies... More
Helping HandsKidsPeace Awarded Gold Seal of Approval by Joint Commission5/26/09 By demonstrating compliance with The Joint Commission‘s national standards for health care quality and safety, KidsPeace National Centers of Georgia and the KidsPeace Wellness & Behavioral Health Center of Georgia have earned the Joint Commission’s Gold Seal of Approval™... More Legal Community Volunteers to Spruce Up Atlanta Area School for the Deaf5/12/09 Hands On Atlanta is proud to announce its 10th annual ServiceJuris community service project, which will feature extensive indoor and outdoor beautification of the Atlanta Area School for the Deaf on Saturday, June 27. Hundreds of members of Atlanta’s legal community, as well as State... More |
FaithGrantville Gospel Sing Set For June 275/27/09 The next Southern Country Gospel Music Sing in Grantville's Railroad Freight Depot will be held on Saturday June 27 beginning at 7 PM. There will be three groups in concert: One Accord and Trinity, both from Columbus; and Christinaires from LaGrange. Admission is free, atmosphere is casual, and opportunity is provided to meet the musicians. Grantville is located at Exit 35 on Interstate 85 approximately an hour south of Atlanta. For info, contact Roy Smith at depotsinging@yahoo.com. All About AnimalsGeorgia Aquarium Announces Specialty License Plates6/4/09 Georgia Aquarium announces a special interest license plate featuring dolphins approved by the Georgia Department of Revenue for immediate sale. The plate is offered in anticipation of opening the new dolphin expansion at the Aquarium in November 2010. Proceeds from the new plate will... More Endangered Right Whales Go Home5/21/09 The endangered right whale is making a comeback. After a record number of births in one group of whales off the coast of Georgia, another tribe has returned to waters near Greenland that it avoided for centuries. Like humans, animals will sometimes leave their homes to avoid a particular threat or to find better living conditions elsewhere... More Zoo Atlanta Officials Announce Possible Pregnancy of Naked Mole Rat Queen5/7/09 Zoo Atlanta’s strangest animal society may be expecting their first litter. Zoo Atlanta’s Animal Management and Veterinary Teams are reasonably certain that the naked mole rat queen is pregnant based on several changes as bizarre as the species itself... More |
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Clayton State Honors Students Holding Red Cross Blood Drive on June 156/4/09 The Clayton State University Honors Student Association will be holding a Red Cross Blood Drive on Monday, June 15. The Red Cross Bloodmobile will be located in the parking lot in front of the University’s new Student Activities Center from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. More info: www.giveblood.org or email the Honors Student Association’s Jenna Pair at jpair@student.clayton.edu. Sinusitis and Allergies: What You Need to Know Living in Atlanta5/27/09 Spring has sprung and summer is just around the corner. While much of the tree pollen has come and gone, the sniffling and sneezing associated with grass pollen is just getting underway. Those suffering from grass pollen will continue battling their allergies from May through the summer months. Seasonal allergens can also trigger sinus attacks or sinusitis... More |
Mayo Clinic Researchers Examine the Psychological Impact of Child Abuse5/26/09 According to a new Mayo Clinic study, a history of child abuse significantly impacts the wide range of challenges facing depressed inpatients. Included are an increase in suicide attempts, prevalence of substance use disorder, and a higher incidence rate of personality disorder. Additionally, these victims also had... More Antibiotic-resistant Bacteria Now Causing More Pneumonia5/20/09 A notorious antibiotic-resistant strain of bacteria now appears to be an emerging threat because of its ability to cause a potentially deadly form of pneumonia, doctors at Emory University School of Medicine report. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcous aureus (CA-MRSA) has become well known for causing community-acquired skin and soft-tissue infections... More New Global Vaccine Center Partnership, Center for Drug Discovery Coming to Georgia5/20/09 Governor Sonny Perdue announced yesterday that two of the world’s leading vaccine research centers will combine their... More
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NCR to Move Corporate Headquarters to Georgia6/2/09 Governor Sonny Perdue announced today NCR will dramatically
increase its presence in Georgia Collaboration Produces First Southeastern Center Focused on Developing Medical Devices5/20/09 Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue announced today that four of Georgia’s leading research and health care organizations have joined together to create an innovative new center that will accelerate the development and commercialization of next-generation medical devices and medical technology. The first of its kind... More General Mills to Locate New Distribution Center in Social Circle5/12/09 Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue announced today that global food company General Mills plans to locate a new distribution center in Social Circle, investing $42 million and creating 112 jobs... More Prudential Signature Realty Becomes Part of Prudential Georgia Realty5/9/09 Prudential Georgia Realty,
one of the largest and top-producing real estate
companies in Dominick M. Moore Joins Stites & Harbison in Atlanta5/6/09 Dominick M. Moore has joined Stites & Harbison’s Atlanta office. Moore serves clients in the areas of business law, securities and finance, and general corporate law... More
MoneyBloomberg - Video: Stress Test Results Today5/7/09 It is now 12 hours until the government releases the results of the banking stress tests. Treasury secretary Tim Geithner said the results will show a bank can withstand whatever stresses the recession may inflict... More NYT - Front: Business: The Stress Test5/6/09 Louise Story and Eric Dash discuss what the results of the banking industry's stress test could mean for both the taxpayer and the investor... More |
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Judicial Nomination Commission to Receive Georgia Supreme Court Nominations5/26/09 Governor Sonny Perdue’s Judicial Nominating Commission (JNC) is now accepting nominations to fill the vacancy on the Georgia Supreme Court created by the resignation of Chief Justice Leah Ward Sears... More Juvenile Justice Released from Federal Monitoring5/19/09 After 11 years, the United States Department of Justice has ended
monitoring of the Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice. Major
service improvements in the areas of education, medical, mental
health, protection from harm and quality assurance resulted in the
final closure of the longstanding 1998 Memorandum of Agreement
(MOA). Gwinnett Commission to Hold Public Hearings on Proposed Tax Increases May 26 and June 25/19/09 The Gwinnett County Commission today announced plans to conduct a series of public hearings on a proposed increase in the county’s property taxes. The public hearings will be held at 4:30 p.m. and 6:15 p.m. on May 26 and at 10:30 a.m. on June 2 in the Gwinnett Justice and... More |
Georgia Welcomes 2009 BIO International Convention to Atlanta5/19/09 Governor Sonny
Perdue welcomed the 2009 BIO International Convention to Governor Perdue Signs $18.6 Billion Fiscal Year 2010 Budget5/13/09 Governor Sonny Perdue today announced that House
Bill 119, the state’s FY 2010 budget, has been signed into
law. The FY10 budget year begins July 1, 2009. “Cutting the budget has forced a number of difficult
decisions, but we have managed the state in a thoughtful,
conservative way to ensure Georgians are receiving value for
their tax dollars,” said Governor Perdue
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A Few of Fernbank’s Favorite Things6/2/09 Fernbank Museum of Natural History is launching a new exhibition on June 13 that showcases a collection of “My Favorite Things”—all selected by staff members from each of the Museum’s departments. Located within the recently redesigned Naturalist Center in the “Curator’s Corner,” the exhibition features 15 cases of objects from Fernbank’s permanent collections that often remain stored away in the museum’s vault... More Governor Perdue, Georgia DOT and State Farm Insurance Unveil New Sponsorship Initiative5/22/09 Governor Sonny Perdue, |
Georgia Becomes National Leader in Statewide Beautification5/19/09 Each March through May, people nationwide volunteer their time to collect trash and beautify their communities’ thoroughfares, parks and waterways during the Great American Cleanup. This year, Georgia has joined an elite group of states that can boast 100... More Recycling in Georgia Continues to Grow5/17/09
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SpotlightJust a Few Days Left Before DTV Transition!6/4/09 The Federal Communications Commission is making
free house calls to help consumers struggling with the
transition to digital television.  
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