Tag Archives: State of Georgia

Vogtle Nuclear Expansion Total Cost is 65 Billion Dollars, former Commissioner Says

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Photograph by Glenn Carroll, Nuclear Watch South   (APN) ATLANTA — Plant Vogtle’s proposed nuclear expansion with new units 3 and 4 will cost an estimated 65 billion dollars, former Georgia Public Service (PSC) Commissioner Bobbie Baker says, based on his analysis of information he received when cross-examining the PSC staff witness at the June 23, 2015 PSC hearing.   […]

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Education Advocate Criticizes APS Charter System Decision

(APN) ATLANTA — At the Monday, November 03, 2014 meeting of the Atlanta Public Schools Board of Education, the Board voted nearly unanimously to recommend to the State of Georgia that the Atlanta Independent School System become a charter system. As previously reported by Atlanta Progressive News, becoming a charter system does not mean all APS schools would become charter […]

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Atlanta Student Movement Historical Trail to be Unveiled with Interactive Markers

APN) ATLANTA — Fifteen historical interactive markers are currently being erected around the Atlanta University Center to memorialize the student movement that sparked the Civil Rights Movement in Atlanta back in 1960. At unveiling is to take place on tomorrow, Saturday, November 01, 2014. On June 07, 2010, a Commission was created to identify locations where these historical actions took […]

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Hearing Held on NGP’s “Missing” Voter Registration Forms, as DeKalb, Chatham Settle

(APN) ATLANTA — Fulton County Superior Court Judge Christopher Brasher did not immediately issue a ruling, after a hearing yesterday, October 24, 2014, on the writ of mandamus sought by New Georgia Project (NGP) and other voter advocacy groups with respect to what they say are approximately 40,000 missing voter registration forms. A writ of mandamus is an extraordinary form […]

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APN Interview with PSC District 4 Candidate, Daniel Blackman, Democrat

(APN) ATLANTA — The Georgia Public Service Commission (PSC) has two seats up for election this year, including District 4, currently held by Lauren “Bubba” McDonald; and District 1, held by Doug Everett, both Republicans. The General Election contest for District 4 is a three-way race, including Daniel Blackman, the Democratic nominee; McDonald, the Republican nominee; and Robin Gilmer, the […]

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Report: Documents Suggest Counties Didn’t Allege Voter Fraud by NGP

With additional reporting by Matthew Charles Cardinale (APN) ATLANTA — Georgia Secretary of State (SOS) Brian Kemp’s Office has said that his investigation of the New Georgia Project’s (NGP) mass voter registration drive across Georgia this year, 2014, began because of complaints received by several Georgia counties regarding alleged voter fraud on the part of NGP. However, the SOS office’s […]

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Kemp Faces Lawsuit over Forty Thousand “Missing” Voter Registration Form

With additional reporting by Matthew Charles Cardinale, News Editor (APN) ATLANTA — The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, a national organization, has filed a lawsuit in Fulton County Superior Court against Secretary of State Brian Kemp and five Georgia counties, regarding more than 40,000 voter registration applications that they say remain unprocessed. They filed the suit on behalf […]

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Election Board Hearing Explains Kemp’s Probe of New Georgia Project

  Article by Anna Simonton, Special to The Atlanta Progressive News.  Photograph by Anna Kelley. (APN) ATLANTA  — Amidst a storm of controversy surrounding Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp’s fraud investigation targeting New Georgia Project, the Georgia Election Board held the first public hearing on the matter September 17, 2014.   The meeting marked the first time Kemp’s office […]

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Voter Fraud Charges from 2010 Fizzle in Quitman, south Georgia

(APN) QUITMAN — On Wednesday, September 17, 2014, after four years, two mistrials, and a third trial that lasted over four week, Lula Smart, one of the original “Quitman 10,” was finally found not guilty on all charges of voter fraud.    Georgia’s Republican Legislature has used the spectre of “voter fraud” to justify efforts that have made it more […]

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State Sen. Millar Opposes Sunday Voting, Black Voter Turnout; Says He Prefers “Educated” Voters

(APN) ATLANTA — In an appalling turn of events that reveals exactly why the Voting Rights Act is still needed, State Sen. Fran Millar (R-Dunwoody) showed his true colors, as it were, in a recent interview with the Atlanta Journal Constitution’s Political Insider blog regarding his opposition to early voting on Sunday. Recently, DeKalb County expanded its early voting options […]

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Georgia Medical Cannabis Study Committee Holds First Hearing

(APN) ATLANTA — The first of five hearings of the Georgia Medical Cannabis Joint Study Committee was held at the Georgia State Capitol, on August 27, 2014.       Three expert witnesses were invited to speak: Paige Figi and Matt Cook from Colorado; and James Bell, Executive Director of Georgia Campaign for Access, Reform and Education (CARE), from Atlanta. […]

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Perdue, Republican nominee for U.S. Senate, Has Troubling Business Background

(APN) ATLANTA — David Perdue, Georgia’s Republican nominee for U.S. Senate and cousin of former Governor Sonny Perdue, is an extremist right-wing politician who would add to the current obstructionism of the U.S. Senate, and has a troubling business background reminiscent of 2012 Presidential candidate Mitt Romney.     In a race that is critical to Democrats keeping majority control […]

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Gov. Deal’s Office Removed Executive Orders from Website

(APN) ATLANTA — On or around August 06, 2014, the Sunlight Foundation, a think tank in Washington, D.C., discovered that Gov. Nathan Deal’s office has been removing executive orders from their website.       The Sunlight Foundation is a “nonpartisan nonprofit that advocates for open government globally and uses technology to make government more accountable to all.”     […]

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Better Georgia Steps on GOP’s Last Nerve; Faces Ethics Complaint; Dodges Another

With additional reporting by Matthew Charles Cardinale   (APN) ATLANTA — Better Georgia’s publicizing on Gov. Nathan Deal’s ethics scandals has upset Republican activists to the point that two Georgia Republicans filed ethics charges against the organization.       Cade Joiner of Macon, Georgia, complained on July 08, 2014 that Better Georgia was violating the standards of a 501(c)(4), […]

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Activists Speak Out against Importing German Nuclear Waste to Savannah River Site, at Hearing

(APN) AUGUSTA — The U.S. Department of Energy held a hearing at the North Augusta Community Center on June 24, 2014, regarding a proposal to import nuclear waste from Germany to be stored at Savannah River Site (SRS). APN previously reported on the proposal in depth: http://www.atlantaprogressivenews.com/interspire/news/2014/06/09/savannah-river-site-becoming-world%E2%80%99s-nuclear-dumping-ground-despite-safety-risks.html     DOE is soliciting public comments on the prospects through July 21, […]

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