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01/05/2021 — Atlanta, Georgia — Fulton County elections workers sort absentee ballots for Georgia’s Senate runoff elections at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, Tuesday, January 5, 2021. (Alyssa Pointer / Alyssa.Pointer@ajc.com)

Georgia election investigation looks into Fulton ballot drop box forms

The 2022 election - featuring races for governor and every seat in the Georgia General Assembly - will likely be a factor in determining how the state uses what may be a record surplus in tax collections this fiscal year.
Convention goers cheer and boo as Governor Brian Kemp (R-GA) speaks at the Georgia GOP State Convention in Jekyll Island, Georgia on June 5th, 2021. Nathan Posner for the Atlanta-Journal-Constitution

Save it, spend it, give it back: What will Georgia do with record surplus?

Georgia’s State Capitol.

A Cobb legislative race is an early skirmish in battleground 2022

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How Georgia’s voting law works

01/27/2021 — Atlanta, Georgia —Georgia lawmakers, lobbyist and staff gather in the hallways on the sixth day of the 2021 legislative session at the Georgia State Capitol building in Atlanta, Wednesday, January 27, 2021. (Alyssa Pointer / Alyssa.Pointer@ajc.com)

Track major Georgia bills 2021

The Georgia Legislative Navigator

Legislators return to the Georgia Capitol on Monday to open the 2020 session of the General Assembly. HYOSUB SHIN / HSHIN@AJC.COM

How the AJC covers the Georgia Legislature

Columnists

Patricia Murphy OPINION: House Speaker David Ralston is considering a run against Sen. Raphael Warnock. Really.
Maureen Downey Former Georgia Teacher of the Year: Debate over critical race theory is heartbreaking
Mike Luckovich 6/2 Mike Luckovich: Risks
Bill Torpy OPINION: A Black male preschool teacher is rare. He wishes it wasn’t
Jamie Dupree Opinion: After fast action on COVID relief, Biden agenda slows in Congress

State elections

Convention-goers cheer and boo as Gov. Brian Kemp speaks at the Georgia GOP convention at Jekyll Island on Saturday, June 5, 2021. (Photo: Nathan Posner for The Atlanta-Journal-Constitution)

At GOP meeting, Georgia Republicans look backward to 2020

Convention-goers cheer and boo as Gov. Brian Kemp speaks at the Georgia GOP convention at Jekyll Island on Saturday, June 5, 2021. (Photo: Nathan Posner for The Atlanta-Journal-Constitution)

Kemp greeted with boos during speech at Georgia GOP convention

Georgia Agriculture Commissioner Gary Black, right, talks with Pete Chagnon of New Life FM radio at the Georgia Grown Farmers Showcase which features agricultural products from all corners of Georgia coming together under one shed for one day on Saturday, July 27, 2013, at the Atlanta State Farmers Market. David Tulis / AJC Special

Political Insider

Republican Gary Black enters Senate race against Raphael Warnock

11/02/2020 — Atlanta, Georgia — Former Georgia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams speaks during a Biden-Harris rally in Atlanta’s Summerhill community, Monday, November 2, 2020. (Alyssa Pointer / Alyssa.Pointer@ajc.com)

Political Insider

Abrams’ Fair Fight launches ad campaign slamming Georgia’s voting restrictions

Health care

This photograph shows the homepage of healthcare.gov, the Affordable Care Act's Marketplace exchange website for shopping for health insurance plans, on Nov. 2, 2020, during open enrollment for coverage beginning 2021.

Feds question Kemp plan to block ACA shopping website in Georgia

Kelly Stewart, 41, at her home in Chatsworth, Georgia, where she lives with family. Stewart has lived for years in the Medicaid gap; she is an adult with no minor children, and Georgia has not expanded Medicaid to include people like her. (PHOTO by Alyssa Pointer / Alyssa.Pointer@ajc.com)

Standstill on Medicaid expansion leaves poor Georgians without coverage

A.S. Turner and Sons Funeral Home and Crematory Funeral Director Cy Hume, right, looks over a completed death certificate with vital records coordinator Dee Rusher, left, at A.S. Turner and Sons Funeral Home and Crematory in Decatur on Thursday. Georgia law requires funeral directors to complete their portion of the death certificate within 72 hours, but it gives doctors up to 30 days to certify the death. Some families say that's too long. (Alyssa Pointer / Alyssa.Pointer@ajc.com)

Delays in death records leave Georgia families in financial limbo

U.S. Sens. Raphael Warnock, right, and Jon Ossoff, shown speaking at a rally in March near the state Capitol, pushed in a letter to “close the coverage gap” in Georgia and other states that have refused to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act. (Photo: Steve Schaefer for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

Political Insider

Warnock, Ossoff press for a new path to expand Georgia’s Medicaid

Economy

FILE - In this Monday, Nov. 2, 2020, file photo, Stacey Abrams speaks to Biden supporters as they wait for former President Barack Obama to arrive and speak at a campaign rally for Biden at Turner Field in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson, File)

Abrams-affiliated firm said to raise $9.5M

Manufacturing is one key part of the Georgia recovery. Here, the factory floor of the Blue Bird Corp. school bus manufacturing plant in Fort Valley. The company has been working to modernize its production and it says it has created clean energy jobs. (Hyosub Shin / Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

Latest Georgia jobs reports: trouble or transition?

Traffic lightened some in metro Atlanta during the pandemic, but more Georgians may eventually restart their office commutes. That is just one of the pressures on President Joe Biden's announced target for the nation to cut overall carbon emissions about 50% by 2030, compared to 2005 levels. HYOSUB SHIN / HSHIN@AJC.COM

How Georgians might reach new U.S. target for 50% carbon cut

Georgia Power said it faces still more delays as it leads a nuclear expansion project at the Plant Vogtle south of Augusta. It now anticipates the first of two new nuclear reactors won't be in operation until the first three months of next year. HYOSUB SHIN / HSHIN@AJC.COM

Georgia’s Vogtle nuclear project delayed again; testing shows problems

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