GOP filibuster blocks probe on U.S. Capitol attack
(GA Recorder) | WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans on Friday blocked consideration of a bill creating a bipartisan, independent commission to investigate what happened leading up...
Georgia hospitals face severe nursing shortage
One sign of the severity of Georgia’s nurse shortage can be seen in the bonuses offered to experienced RNs to join a hospital workforce.
Some...
Kemp to prohibit public school mask requirements
(GA Recorder) — Gov. Brian Kemp says he will sign an executive order as soon as Friday preventing state agencies and public schools from...
National Park Service predicts biggest season in history
(GA Recorder) — Leaders of a U.S. Senate panel on Wednesday extolled national parks for providing a respite during the COVID-19 pandemic but cautioned...
Floyd family presses Biden on police reform; Atlanta marchers pay respect
(GA Recorder) — One year after George Floyd’s killing by a Minneapolis police officer, protesters took to the streets of Atlanta and Floyd’s family...
Kemp signs order banning COVID-19 vaccine passports
The national debate over businesses requiring vaccine passports reached Georgia state government Tuesday as Gov. Brian Kemp banned the practice among state agencies.
Kemp signed...
Waiting is hard part for Georgians with disabilities
(GA Recorder) — The move into a nursing home in Royston was supposed to be temporary for Nick Papadopoulos, who was a 38-year-old living...
Judge blocks Georgia law on Israel boycotters
A federal judge in Atlanta struck a major blow against a Georgia law that bans people who boycott Israel from entering into contracts with...
House Democrats scrutinize Georgia’s voting law in review of new state rules
(GA Recorder) | WASHINGTON— Members of a U.S. House panel on Monday debated whether some state election laws disenfranchise certain voters, including people of color,...
Attempts to ban ‘critical race theory’ multiply across the U.S.
WASHINGTON (GA Recorder) — From statehouses to Congress, Republicans have launched into a fight against the teaching of “critical race theory,” which just a...
Black, Latino Georgians lag behind whites in COVID shots
Blacks and Latinos in Georgia have significantly lower COVID-19 vaccination rates than whites, a newly released Kaiser Health News analysis shows.
Thirty percent of whites...
Judge grants new absentee ballot review in Fulton
(GA Recorder) — A Henry County Superior Court Judge will give a group of Georgia residents claiming many fraudulent votes were cast in the...