Georgia Government News

Georgia's tax collections plummeted sharply again in June, leaving the state's bank account more than $1.9 billion below where it stood this time last year and forcing Gov.

Gov. Sonny Perdue says net revenue collections for the month of June dropped by 15.7% from the same month a year ago.

A 3-year-old Georgia law requiring companies with state or local government contracts to ensure their employees can legally work in the U.S. has gone largely unenforced, as lawmakers haven't been able to come up with an effective way to enforce it.

The top three money raisers among the candidates vying to be Atlanta's next mayor raised more than $300,000 each last quarter, according to the latest campaign disclosure filings.

Gov. Sonny Perdue is calling the response from the Atlanta Public Schools district to an audit alleging cheating on state standardized tests "outrageous." Atlanta schools Superintendent Beverly Hall sent a letter to the state this week saying the district "strongly disagrees" with the audit's findings that someone changed answers on fifth-grade ...

Georgia is making it more difficult for someone to create a fake ID or driver's license.

ATLANTA a ' The Georgia Department of Corrections says it will close Frank C. Scott Jr.

Gov. Sonny Perdue has named Jewel Norman as the state mental health ombudsman, a position that is being funded for the first time this year.

Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine has returned $120,000 that was funneled into his gubernatorial campaign by two insurance firms.

According to Gov. Sonny Perdue's official web site, his goal is to "put Georgia at the top of national rankings for the 'Best-Managed State in America.' The high standards for best-managed states parallel the Perdue principles for governing a New Georgia: effectiveness, efficiency, accountability for results and a customer-focused culture of public ...

The Department of Defense says two members of the Georgia National Guard's 48th Infantry Brigade have been killed in action in Afghanistan.

A second Milledgeville prison is closing it's doors. According to a press release from the Georgia Department of Corrections, the 1,700-bed Scott State Prison in Milledgeville will close August 15, 2009.

Attorney General Thurbert Baker is the leading fundraiser in the crowded Democratic field for the governor's race, raking in about $700,000 since he announced he would run.

As part of their Independence Day celebration, a group of Douglas County residents participated in a TEA Party Saturday afternoon at the Douglas County Courthouse.

" Governor Sonny Perdue announced today that the state of Georgia will receive a High Performance Bonus of $4 million from the U.S. Department of Agriculture for its management of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program , formerly the Food Stamp Program.

Campaign finance reports for Georgia's crowded gubernatorial field are trickling in.

The U.S. Census Bureau won't begin mailing questionnaires until March for next year's nationwide tally, but Latino groups are starting now to encourage participation.

With 200 fewer people processing Georgia State tax returns because of budget cuts, taxpayers who filed paper returns before April 15 are asking where's the money.

Georgia's politicians will soon face tough choices over whether to call a special legislative session or broker an agreement on how to slash funds if state tax revenues continue to plummet amid the troubled economy.

On July 3rd, 1889, members of the Georgia General Assembly marched as a body from the Kimball Opera House -which had served as their home nearly thirty years- at the corner of Marietta Street and Forsyth Street to the newly constructed state Capitol building.