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My sister and her three kids are moving cross country — and I mean literally from one coast to the other. On the fifth day of their long car trip, they finally made it to Georgia and stopped in …
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By Joe and Ashley English
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7/23/21
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ATLANTA – Attorney General Chris Carr is warning consumers about a new take on the classic pyramid scheme. Pyramid schemes are illegal multilevel marketing programs that promise consumers or …
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By Georgia A.G. Chris Carr
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7/22/21
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ATLANTA - The coronavirus pandemic, after depressing Georgia’s film industry during its early months, actually helped the state bounce back strong during the last fiscal year.Movie and TV …
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By Dave Williams, Bureau Chief, Capitol Beat News Service
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7/22/21
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ATLANTA -- The Public Service Commission, on Tuesday, unanimously elected Commissioner Tricia Pridemore as the Chairman of the Commission.“I am honored that my fellow Commissioners have elected …
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7/22/21
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Scam callers have been particularly persistent in their harassment of NGEMC members over the last few days. They have demanded that members drive to Kroger and purchase a prepaid card to make their …
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Submitted by NGEMC
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7/20/21
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ATLANTA - The Georgia Lottery generated more than $1.5 billion for the state’s HOPE Scholarship and Pre-K programs during the last fiscal year, a record that came despite a global pandemic that …
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By Dave Williams, Capitol Beat News Service
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7/20/21
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ATLANTA – The Georgia Department of Transportation’s (Georgia DOT) Office of Intermodal is excited to announce the launch of its Let’s Ride rural transit website and mobile app …
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By Georgia DOT
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7/16/21
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ATLANTA - Georgia’s unemployment rate fell to 4% last month, the lowest since the coronavirus pandemic began in March of last year and 8.5% below the April 2020 pandemic peak of 12.5%.“We …
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By Dave Williams, Bureau Chief, Capitol Beat News Service
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7/16/21
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ATLANTA --The Coca-Cola Foundation granted the Technical College System of Georgia Foundation (TCSGF) $100,000 to support student retention throughout Georgia’s 22 technical colleges. This …
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Submitted by TCSGF
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7/15/21
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ATLANTA - Georgia hauled in $3.2 billion more in taxes during the last fiscal year – a period dominated by a worldwide pandemic – than it brought in during fiscal 2020, Gov. Brian Kemp …
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By Dave Williams, Bureau Chief, Capitol Beat News Service
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7/13/21
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Georgia gas prices have risen 1.5 cents per gallon in the past week, averaging $2.90/g today, according to GasBuddy's daily survey of 5,883 stations in Georgia. Gas prices in Georgia are 3.2 cents …
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By GasBuddy
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7/12/21
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I will never forget the first deal Ashley and I had ever done that was severely damaged by fire. The year was 2011, and the deal, which we call the burnout, was a 1992 single wide located in a …
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By Joe and Ashley English
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7/11/21
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Last week, regular UI initial claims totaled 19,761, down 988 over the previous week, the lowest number of weekly claims in 2021. However, a recent GDOL report announced only ten percent of …
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Georgia Department of Labor
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7/8/21
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We went to dinner last night with a group of investor friends over in Dawsonville, Georgia. Some Ashley and I have known for years, and others we had just met that day.As we sat around the table, we …
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By Joe and Ashley English
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7/2/21
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ATLANTA - Starting July 4, unemployed Georgians will have to submit evidence they’re looking for work to the state Department of Labor.Reinstatement of the work search requirement comes as …
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By Dave Williams, Bureau Chief, Capitol Beat News Service
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7/1/21
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Passive income equals freedom
I was sitting on a plane recently getting ready to take the longest flight I have ever been on. It was from Atlanta to Portland, and it was going to take 5 1/2 hours. …
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By Joe and Ashley English
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6/25/21
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WASHINGTON — The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) this week extended through July 31, the moratorium on evictions of the hundreds-of-thousands of Americans who live in …
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Submitted by USDA
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6/25/21
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A nominating committee was appointed by the board of directors of Amicalola EMC at its June meeting to make nominations for directors whose terms expire at the annual meeting to be held Oct. 2. …
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6/22/21
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ATLANTA - The diminishing number of Georgians with landline telephones in their homes are about to see a savings on their bills thanks to the sunsetting of a decade-old program.The Georgia Public …
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By Dave Williams, Bureau Chief, Capitol Beat News Service
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6/17/21
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WASHINGTON – United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development Rural Business-Cooperative Service Administrator Karama Neal on Tuesday unveiled a new grant program to help rural …
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Submitted by USDA
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6/15/21
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