State Board of Community Health approves an increase in Medicaid payment rates for nursing homes . . .
There was a bit of a surprise in the 7th Congressional District, where Rob Woodall will face Jody Hice in the runoff; Tom Graves was pushed into another runoff with Lee Hawkins in the 9th Congressional District . . .
Georgia has the nation’s toughest ballot access laws for a reason: they enable Republicans and Democrats to keep as many independents as possible from running; Brad Bryant is the latest would-be independent to learn that lesson of Georgia politics . . .
7th Congressional District candidate Jody Hice, who’s competing with seven others for the GOP nomination, erects billboards in Gwinnett County implying that Barack Obama is a communist. And not only that, Hice says, he’s also a socialist . . .
