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Cindy Zeldin, Executive Director of Georgians for a Healthy Future, speaks during the Cover Georgia press briefing in on Feb. 19, 2013.

Wanted: ‘Navigators’ for health exchanges

Georgians who lack health insurance soon will be able to shop for it on a special website, or “exchange,” set up under the Affordable Care Act. That is, if they know it exists. And can figure out how to use it. The website will offer a blizzard of health plans ...

  • 7:44 p.m. Thursday, June 13, 2013
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MARTA suspends another top executive

MARTA officials have suspended the department head who became the focus of a forensic audit for possible “asset misappropriation” earlier this year. The transit agency had initially kept Assistant General Manager Ben Graham, the director of the Information Technology department, on the job during the audit. Wednesday, he was suspended ...

  • 6:46 p.m. Thursday, June 13, 2013
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O. Wayne Rollins, owner of Orkin Pest Control, owns this house and more than 1,800 acres in northwest Georgia and his fight to stave off construction of a key leg of the Northern Arc through his pristine property in the 1990s helped doom that project.

Rollins clan near victory in Rome road battle

The Rollins family did just about everything it could do to block a new road linking Interstate 75 to Rome and running just south of the family’s vacation home and prized fishing lake. And on Thursday the effort by the prominent Georgia clan - which was joined by environmentalists and ...

  • 5:55 p.m. Thursday, June 13, 2013
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Deal name panel to review Rep. Brooks’ case

Gov. Nathan Deal said he will appoint a panel Friday to review Rep. Tyrone Brooks’ indictment and determine if the Atlanta Democrat should be suspended from office. Deal told reporters Thursday that the committee, as called for in the Georgia Constitution, will include one House member, one senator and the ...

  • 5:02 p.m. Thursday, June 13, 2013
Georgia’s bobwhite quail, white-tailed deer, and wild turkey plate contributes directly to the Bobwhite Quail Initiative, which has created critical habitat for quail nesting, feeding and cover. The program positively affects more than 20,000 acres for quail and songbirds.

New tags benefit state wildlife efforts

The state Department of Natural Resources unveiled three new license plates Thursday to benefit conservation efforts across Georgia. The three designs boast color images across the entire face of the plate, including a soaring bald eagle, a grouping of bobwhite quail, deer and wild turkey and a brook trout rising ...

  • 3:58 p.m. Thursday, June 13, 2013
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Supporters of Rep. Tyrone Brooks, D-Atlanta, listen as he holds a press conference at the Moore's Ford Bridge Thursday, May 30, 2013. The location of the news conference would appear to reflect supporters' beliefs that federal authorities are targeting Brooks as retaliation for his work to shine light on the unsolved 1946 lynching of two black couples along the bridge. Brooks has said he believes FBI agents at the time were involved.

Deal to name panel to review Rep. Brooks’ case

Gov. Nathan Deal today said he will appoint a panel on Friday to review Rep. Tyrone Brooks’ indictment to determine if the Atlanta Democrat should be suspended from office. Deal told reporters that the committee, as called for in the Georgia Constitution, will include one House member, one senator and ...

  • 1:13 p.m. Thursday, June 13, 2013
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Board member Scott Sweeney leads a discussion on possible state money to buy textbooks during the Cobb County School Board meeting on Wednesday, June 12, 2013.

Cobb school board reignites Common Core debate following outcry

The debate over Common Core standards — and a recent Cobb County school board decision not to buy textbooks related to those standards — sparked another heated debate among board members Wednesday. Board members accused their administrative staff of putting out misinformation to sabotage the board’s actions, referring to an ...

  • 9:16 p.m. Wednesday, June 12, 2013
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Isakson calls for hearing on Atlanta VA

Republican U.S. Sen. Johnny Isakson of Georgia has requested a congressional hearing in Atlanta to address troubles at the Atlanta VA Medical Center. Isakson serves on the Veterans’ Affairs Committee and wrote a letter to committee leaders Tuesday requesting the hearing to follow up on a pair of audits in ...

  • 12:43 p.m. Wednesday, June 12, 2013

University System searches for Middle Georgia president

Chancellor Hank Huckaby announced a 15-person search committee to help the State Board of Regents select the next president of Middle Georgia State College. The group is scheduled to meet Thursday. They will work for several months and recommend three to five candidates for the position. The Macon-based school was ...

  • 10:33 a.m. Wednesday, June 12, 2013
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President Barack Obama speaks in support of the Senate's bipartisan immigration reform bill in the East Room of the White House June 11, 2013 in Washington, D.C. (Olivier Douliery/Abaca Press/MCT)

Isakson, Chambliss vote to kick off debate on immigration bill

The U.S. Senate overwhelmingly voted to begin debate on a landmark immigration overhaul Tuesday, but Georgia’s senators and other Republicans said the bill needs big changes to earn their final support. The heavily qualified support of U.S. Sens. Johnny Isakson and Saxby Chambliss nonetheless stirred passions on both sides of ...

  • 6:08 p.m. Tuesday, June 11, 2013
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