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Meals programs running for now, future unclear
Geraldine Roper fears the federal shutdown could reach all the way to her kitchen table. Roper, a 79-year-old retiree, has received a daily lunch through the Meals on Wheels program for the last three years. Now, she wonders if those meals will stop. “It would cripple me,” said Roper, who ...
Georgia searching for Obamacare, at least on Yahoo
More people in Georgia than in any other state searched for “Obamacare” on Yahoo.com this week, the company said. Yahoo also reported on Thursday a 179 percent increase in Georgia-based searches for “Obamacare” during the past seven days. (Searches for “Affordable Care Act” were up 304 percent, while searches for ...
On the exchange, patients will need patience
An editor at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution tried to get into the Health Insurance Marketplace at 5:50 a.m. Wednesday, reasoning that it was still the middle of the night in the rest of the country.After a horrendous launch on Tuesday in which eager Americans overran the servers at healthcare.gov, the Department ...
Indicted Sen. Balfour posts bond
State Sen. Don Balfour, R-Snellville, posted a $5,000 bond Tuesday and was released from the Fulton County jail after being charged last week with 18 counts of filing false expense claims and theft.Balfour’s indictment is based on allegations that he charged the state for expenses on days he did not ...
$189 million Mega Millions ticket sold in Maryland
Sorry, Georgia Lottery players. A single ticket sold in Maryland matched all six numbers in Tuesday’s Mega Millions drawing, winning a jackpot estimated at $189 million. The numbers drawn Tuesday night were 7, 10, 30, 37 and 53, and the Mega Ball was 1. If the winner choses the cash ...
In Georgia, “anxiety, frustration, people in tears” as shutdown takes hold
The impact of the partial shutdown of the U.S. government began to emerge Tuesday across Georgia in the form of lost paychecks, padlocked attractions and uncertainty. About 2,000 employees of the Georgia National Guard were sent home, as were another 2,000 at Robins Air Force Base. But active-duty members of ...
Health insurance exchange off to a rough start
Access denied. The system is down. Please wait. Georgians hoping to get their first peek at the new Health Insurance Marketplace website on Tuesday found themselves staring at error messages, blank screens and drop-down menus that wouldn’t drop down. Nationwide, a wave of nearly 3 million consumers broke over the ...
Health law’s insurance marketplace opens today
Starting today, millions of Georgians were supposed to be able to find out whether the Affordable Care Act is going to make health insurance affordable after all. Apparently they all tried at once.So many people tried to log into Georgia’s Health Insurance Marketplace that very few actually got in.“Please wait” ...
Feds cite Georgia Power in plant mishap
Federal investigators found 17 safety violations at Georgia Power plant near Cartersville following a generator explosion in April, the government said Friday. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration proposes a $119,000 for the violations, which it said were connected to the April incident at coal-fired Plant Bowen. The explosion — ...
Workers will receive Obamacare notices from the boss
The Affordable Care Act is coming to your mailbox. If they follow the law, Georgia companies large and small will be sending their employees a letter — some by email, some on hard copy — explaining the opening of the Health Insurance Marketplace on Tuesday. Some employers have already met ...
Lawsuit filed over “unauthorized” court costs
A southwest Georgia county has been collecting unauthorized court costs from hundreds of criminal defendants, many of whom are poor and unable to afford their own lawyers, a federal lawsuit alleges. The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in Albany, seeks to stop Grady County State Court from collecting “administrative costs” from defendants ...
Suit: Grady County court forced hundreds to pay unauthorized fees
A southwest Georgia county has been collecting unauthorized court costs from hundreds of criminal defendants, many of whom could not afford to hire their own lawyers, a federal lawsuit alleges.The lawsuit seeks to stop Grady County State Court from collecting “administrative costs” from defendants. In 2011 and 2012, the county ...
Registration drive for Georgia voters Tuesday
Civic organizations including the League of Women Voters of Georgia will hold a voter registration drive Tuesday, including a 9:30 a.m. rally at the state Capitol in Atlanta.The drive coincides with a nationwide push to register voters in advance of the Nov. 5 election. The deadline to register to vote ...
Ex-ethics official had concerns
The lone Democrat on Georgia’s ethics panel was kept in the dark as two Republican commissioners consulted with Nathan Deal’s office to replace the agency’s director in the midst of investigating the governor, according to new legal documents reviewed Friday by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Kent Alexander, a former federal prosecutor ...
Mount Vernon approves deal to sell property for stadium
The Mount Vernon Baptist Church congregation approved a $14.5 million deal to move, potentially making way for the new Atlanta Falcons stadium to be built on land just south of the Georgia Dome, church leaders announced Thursday night. The decision, by a vote of 116-16, came after about 90 minutes ...
Report: Athens man threatens neighbors over grill smoke
This Athens man could serve as the poster child for anger management classes. Charles Cecil Craft Sr. drew an aggravated assault charge after he got upset when smoke from a neighbor’s grill blew into his yard. He was arrested last Wednesday after he allegedly threatened two women with a knife ...
Errors plague school testing: AJC Investigation
Miscalculated scores, flawed questions and other errors on standardized tests have become near commonplace in public schools across the country, according to a new investigation by The Atlanta-Journal Constitution. Repeated failures in quality-control measures have allowed mistakes to keep happening even as testing took on a more crucial role for ...
Georgia wants permission to spend own funds on Savannah dredging
Georgia’s leaders are prepared to use state dollars next year to begin the dredging of Savannah’s port, tired of waiting for federal funding to accomplish what Democrats and Republicans alike view as the state’s top economic development priority. Significant hurdles remain, including congressional changes needed to lift a spending cap ...
No criminal charges brought in South Georgia cheating cases
Unlike Atlanta’s cheating scandal, South Georgia educators accused of fudging standardized test scores won’t face criminal charges. Dougherty County District Attorney Gregory Edwards said Friday he decided against prosecuting any of the 49 teachers and administrators accused by state investigators of misconduct. Similar to cheating in Atlanta, the investigation found ...
Affordable Care Act: 2 different states, 2 different planets
FRANKFORT, Ky. — Strolling in the sunshine on this state’s picturesque Old Capitol grounds, Diana Sims came to a booth where women handed out brightly colored tote bags and answered questions about Kynect — Kentucky’s new custom-built health insurance website created by the Affordable Care Act. Sims, 53, doesn’t like ...
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