Most of Fulton County is municipalized, meaning that most residents of Georgia’s largest county live in a city. The only unincorporated area left in Fulton is about 66 square miles in the southern portion of the county.
Fulton County government provides city-like services to this small unincorporated area –such as police and fire protection, code [...]
Tuesday, the House State Planning & Community Affairs Committee reported out a resolution that says the General Assembly nor the people of Georgia “consider themselves bound to comply with the orders of any presidentially appointed czar.”
House Resolution 1146 is sponsored by two candidates for Congress; state Representatives Clay Cox and Bobby Reese.
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Monday, Democrat Alan Powell, Independent Rusty Kidd and Republican Mark Hatfield introduced a ballot access bill that would completely eliminate the need for independent or third party candidates to gather signatures in order to appear on the ballot.
The summary of House Bill 1257 reads as follows:
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter [...]
Rep. Debbie Buckner (D-Junction City) is proposing a statewide watering ban:
Buckner says Georgians should not water lawns between 10 am and 6 pm. She says half of that water just evaporates and is lost, so she’s pushing a bill that would impose watering restrictions statewide. The move, she says, would ease tensions in the ongoing [...]
It’s that time of year again, members of the Georgia General Assembly are prefiling legislation for the 2010 session. Insider Advantage already has an article up about them, though only a handful of bills have been prefiled for either Chamber and almost exclusively by a few members.
House prefiles can be viewed here. Senate prefiles [...]
Senator Robert Brown (D-Macon) has filed a direct response to the passage of Senate Bill 31 in the form of his Senate Bill 272.
Senate Bill 272 would force any “utility that recovers from its customers the costs of financing associated with the construction of a nuclear generating plant” to “provide in the billing statement to [...]
Three former Atlanta police officers were sentenced on federal charges today in the 2006 shooting of Kathryn Johnston, the 92 year-old woman essentially murdered in her own home during a drug raid gone wrong. Sen. Vincent Fort has reintroduced legislation to put restrictions on no-knock warrants:
Fort has introduced Senate Bill 197 which would require that [...]
Gov. Sonny Perdue’s legislation to reorganize transportation organizations in the state has been filed:
Perdue’s plan would replace the 13-person state transportation board that is now elected by the state Legislature with a new 11-member panel. The current board is elected by congressional district. In the new panel, five members would be appointed by the governor, [...]