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Municipal Elections: Early voting underway

Posted: Monday, October 12th, 2009 @ 10:00 am in Special Session | No Comments »

Voters in municipalities around the state will head to the polls to decide their representation and leadership. You may can take advantage of advanced voting, which began next week and runs until Friday, October 30th. You can check here to see the hours for your county.
Also, seven seats in the Georgia General Assembly will be [...]

Harbin wants a special session

Posted: Wednesday, August 19th, 2009 @ 10:54 am in Special Session | No Comments »

Ben Harbin, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, sees the need for a special session to address budget shortfalls:
The chairman of the Georgia House Appropriations Committee told Columbia County officials Tuesday that a special session of the Legislature is needed to address the state’s expected $900 million shortfall in revenue.
During a meeting of state lawmakers [...]

MARTA wants special session

Posted: Monday, April 6th, 2009 @ 7:35 pm in Special Session, Transportation | No Comments »

MARTA officials want a special session to deal with funding issues:
MARTA board members on Monday called for a special legislative session to avert what they called the economic calamity of shutting down service at least one day a week.
“If something is not done about these issues that were neglected this session, at some point it’s [...]