Human Behavior

There is definitely no logic to human behavior.

Women lawmakers take a cut at vasectomies

Rep. Yasmin Neal turns the tables on her legislative colleagues and introduces a bill that is an attack on the reproductive rights of males . . .

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Tags: Abortion , Doug McKillip , Nan Orrock , vasectomy , Yasmin Neal

In Tennessee, they may just skip the middleman and give cash directly to the cronies

If you think things are little free and loose around the Georgia state capitol, take a look at what they're doing to the north of us . . .

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Tags: cash payments to corporations , Gov. Bill Haslam , Tennessee

Alchemy and the Public Service Commission

Former PSC member Bobby Baker outlines the latest regulatory scheme by Georgia Power by take money from the pockets of ratepayers . . .

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Tags: Bobby Baker , coal-fired plants , Georgia Power , PSC

What the judge said

Here are some excerpts from a Georgia's judge ruling against the birthers who continue to argue that Barack Obama is not a natural-born American citizen . . .

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Tags: ballot challenge , Barack Obama , birthers , Brian Kemp , Georgia ballot , Michael Jablonski , Michael Malihi

‘Go Fish’ goes south

Walter Jones takes a look back at the grandiose "Go Fish" program instituted by former governor Sonny Perdue; what he finds isn't pretty . . .

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Tags: bass fishing tournaments , boat docks , Go Fish , Sonny Perdue

The makeover of the DNR board is completed

The state Board of Natural Resources has evolved over the past decade from a commission that encompasses business and conservation interests to a business development agency . . .

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Tags: conservationists , Department of Natural Resources , DNR board , Earl Barrs , Environmental Protection Division , Georgia Power , Jim Butler , Jud Turner , Kevin Greene , lobbyists , Rob Leebern , Sally Bethea , Troutman Sanders , Warren Budd

Kemp’s unbridled license

What's not to like about Brian Kemp's proposal to consolidate 43 state licensing boards? The Rome News-Tribune tries to provide a response . . .

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Tags: Brian Kemp , consolidation , state licensing boards

The year in politics: follow the money

You can tell who were the winners and losers in Georgia politics in the year 2011 -- they're the ones who wound up with the money . . .

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Tags: bank loan default , Bartow County Bank , Chip Rogers , deadbeats , Eric Tanenblatt , Kasim Reed , Nathan Deal , Nick Ayers , Nikki Haley , Savannah Harbor expansion , Sonny Perdue , Tim Pawlenty , Tom Graves

Ron Paul blazed the trail

What can you say about presidential candidate Ron Paul that he hasn't already said himself, and more eloquently, in those political newsletters he published more than two decades ago?

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Tags: Al Sharpton , blacks , gays , Martin Luther King , Ron Paul

A rancid harvest for Georgia’s farmers

The agriculture and hospitality industries, two of the biggest employers in Georgia, suffered major economic damage this year from the implementation of the state's controversial immigration law . . .

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Tags: employee verification , farm industry , Georgia Restaurant Association , immigrant status , labor shortages , migrant workers
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