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Artificial intelligence has the opportunity to improve lives, but it could also put Georgians’ jobs and safety at risk.

Georgia lawmakers focusing on artificial intelligence

Dave Williams, Capitol Beat News
March 25, 2025
House Majority Leader Chuck Efstration.

Georgia House OKs bill to prepare state code for potential end of U.S. Department of Education

Ross Williams, Georgia Recorder
March 24, 2025
The Georgia Senate passed legislation to make doxxing a criminal offense in Georgia on Crossover Day, Thursday, March 6, 2025.

Georgia Senate passes the Georgia Anti-Doxxing Act

Ambria Burton, Georgia Public Broadcasting
March 12, 2025
Mercer University sophomore Taylor Boyd mounts a piece of the Freedom Seekers exhibit at the Tubman African American Museum in Macon in 2025. The exhibit features so-called “runaway slave ads” researched by students like Boyd. “They had everyday problems just like us,” Boyd said. “Reading their stories and reading that they were running away to families or they had lovers — that really just exemplified the importance of why we need to showcase this.”

Tubman museum’s newspaper ad exhibition honors the humanity of enslaved people

Grant Blankenship, Georgia Public Broadcasting
February 24, 2025
Trump Supporters at 2018 rally in Macon.

Trump administration slashes Georgia CDC workforce by 10% in sweeping cuts 

Jill Nolin, Georgia Recorder
February 20, 2025
Protestors gather Feb. 17, 2025, outside City Hall in Athens, Ga., calling for the removal of billionaire Elon Musk from the Trump administration.

Hundreds of Georgians protest Elon Musk’s role in federal government

Sarah Kallis and Chase McGee
February 18, 2025
One of Kyo Brown's chickens inside her backyard chicken coop in Decatur, Ga., just east of Atlanta. Prohibiting free ranging is just one biosecurity measure that chicken owners and producers are encouraged to take as highly pathogenic avian influenza spreads across the U.S. and across species.

Everything you need to know about Georgia’s bird flu response

Sofi Gratas, Georgia Public Broadcasting
February 12, 2025
The Georgia Capitol Building in Atlanta. Photo by J. Glover (AUtiger)/Wikimedia

Lawmakers, mostly but not all Democrats, seek extra funding for impoverished students

Ty Tagami, Capitol Beat News
February 11, 2025
Bob Sherrier, attorney for the Southern Environmental Law Center, said during Thursday’s Senate regulated industries committee that SB 34 will hold data centers accountable for energy costs.

State senator pushes bill to protect Georgia Power customers from rate hikes fueled by data centers

Stanley Dunlap, Georgia Recorder
February 10, 2025
Glennville Republican state Rep. Bill Werkheiser talks about a proposal that he says will help ensure Georgia is not executing defendants who are intellectually disabled.

Georgia sets legal bar very high to shield intellectually disabled people from death penalty

Jill Nolin, Georgia Recorder
February 5, 2025
A mural of a chicken is painted on a trailer in Elbert County, Ga.

Georgia confirms its third bird flu case in a chicken flock this year. Here’s what you should know.

Sofi Gratas and Chase McGee
January 24, 2025
Gov. Brian Kemp speaks at the Georgia Chamber of Commerce’s Eggs and Issues event in Atlanta early in the 2025 legislative session.

Details still to come, but governor says limits on lawsuit awards in Georgia his top priority

Jill Nolin, Georgia Recorder
January 17, 2025
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