Project 2025 would make health care worse • Georgia Recorder
October 10, 2024 3:44 pm. Georgia State Sen. Sonya Halpern speaks at a July press conference to condemn Project 2025, which is the conservative Heritage Foundation’s controversial presidential transition plan. Jill Nolin/Georgia Recorder. “Cultural institutions like…public health agencies are only as ‘independent’ from public ...
Settlement reached in Gateway Pundit defamation case, though …
Oct 10, 2024 · A settlement has been reached between the Gateway Pundit and two Georgia poll workers who accused the St. Louis-based far-right website of defamation in a civil suit in St. Louis Circuit Court. Notice of the settlement was filed Monday afternoon. The parties to the dispute “provide notice to the court that the parties have reached agreement […]
Abortion bans have delayed medical care. Experts say this Georgia ...
Sep 16, 2024 · ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. In her final hours, Amber Nicole Thurman suffered from a grave infection that her suburban Atlanta hospital was well-equipped to treat. She’d taken abortion pills and encountered a rare complication; she had […]
Death toll in Georgia reaches 15 as recovery efforts begin in wake …
Sep 27, 2024 · This story was updated at 8:45 a.m. on Monday, Sept. 30, 2024. Hurricane Helene has killed at least 15 people in Georgia, including a first responder, and others were still trapped inside of buildings midday Friday in the hardest-hit areas. “At this time, this has been a deadly storm,” Gov. Brian Kemp said during a briefing Friday.
Georgia election board Trump loyalists want Legislature to clear …
Oct 9, 2024 · Conservative Georgia State Election Board member Janelle King, second from left, voted Sept. 23 to have election board Executive Director Mike Coan. second from right, to look into the claims that led to the DeKalb County Republican Party alleging that several county election board’s are not following the law for reviewing voter eligibility complaints.
Georgia’s state officials, farmers brace for damage from fury of ...
Sep 26, 2024 · This story was updated at 11:10 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 26, 2024. What remains of Hurricane Helene is expected to leave Georgia by midday Friday, likely leaving widespread – and potentially extended – power outages and a sprawling debris field in the massive storm’s wake. On Thursday, state and local officials, agriculture leaders and residents […]
Delayed farm bill punted until after election with Congress stuck …
Oct 2, 2024 · The latest deadline for the farm bill passed unceremoniously at midnight on Sept. 30, without a push from lawmakers to pass a new farm bill or an extension.
Georgia prisons chief tells state lawmakers drones are smuggling …
Aug 29, 2024 · The Georgia Department of Corrections continues to struggle with an onslaught of drones that are being used to deliver contraband, such as drugs, cell phones, and potentially even the firearm used by an inmate of Smith State Prison to kill a food service worker in June.
Afraid to seek care amid Georgia’s abortion ban, she stayed at …
Sep 18, 2024 · When Miller learned she was pregnant again in 2022, she ordered abortion pills for about $80 from a website called AidAccess, according to her 16-year-old son, Christian Cardenas. Miller’s 16-year-old son, Christian, holds his mother’s ashes at home in Atlanta. Credit: Rita Harper, special to ProPublica.
After court overturns Georgia six-week abortion ban, providers to ...
Sep 30, 2024 · Abortion providers in Georgia say they will expand their services immediately and are preparing for a potential influx of out-of-state patients after a Fulton County judge ruled Monday that Georgia’s six-week abortion ban is unconstitutional under the Georgia Constitution. Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert C. I. McBurney’s long-awaited ruling immediately overturned the state’s ...