Month: January 2010
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Atlanta part of US World Cup Bid!
Atlanta beat out a list of cities including Charlotte, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Jacksonville, Oakland, Orlando, St. Louis and San Francisco. Get hyped up, A-town!
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Sights and Sounds from the 2010 Session – Day 1
Listen to State Rep. Kathy Ashe’s speech for the Georgia House Speaker Pro-Tem: Get this widget | Track details | eSnips Social DNA Listen to State Rep. DuBose Porter, Georgia Democrat Minority Caucus leader, nominate State Rep. Calvin Smyre for Georgia House Speaker. Get this widget | Track details | eSnips Social DNA Listen to…
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Connie Stokes Still Wants to Go to Washington
Too bad she’ll have a bit of an uphill battle ahead of her as it so happens that the incumbent she’s challenging is an orthodox liberal in one of the most Democratic districts in the state. Commissioner Connie Stokes will announce later this month her campaign against U.S. Rep. Hank Johnson. Stokes declined to give…
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So here’s what happened…
Georgia put in caps on Medical Malpractice damages in 2005. That means that no matter what the scenario, non-economic damages were limited to 350k. Well, a woman recently had a botched face lift and because this was elective surgery (and thus outside the purposes of the statute) the statute as applied to that case was…
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Awkward questions
The General Assembly kicked off a new session on Monday with much of the legislative leadership reeling from media exposes of scandals and ethics controversies, some of them involving female lobbyists
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Live Blogging from the Gold Dome
11:17 am: Burkhalter talking about Richardson resigning his house seat – “he’s getting better”. 11:19 am: Burkhalter says “thanks” for letting him serve as speaker for 10 days. 11:20 am: Burkhalter calling for the election of the Speaker Pro-Tem Republicans nominate: Jan Jones Democrats nominate: Kathy Ashe 11:30 am: Rep. Carolyn Hughley nominated Kathy Ashe…