Ed Setzler of Acworth dropped a bomb on the house floor yesterday. He has submitted a bill that would repeal the Transportation Investment Act and replace it with another. The new one would basically be a ten-year SPLOST program voted on and administered by individual counties. There is a matching resolution. This will probably go …
Monthly Archives: February 2012
Georgia Legislative Action on Monday and Tuesday
HB 918 – Prohibition from cooperation with the Fascist Authoritarian Federal Government. I may have injected just a bit of hyperbole into the title of this bill, but that’s essentially what it is. The bill directs all Georgian’s operating in an official capacity to not cooperate with any federal request under the recent National Defense …
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This week (So Far) in the Georgia Legislature
HB 837 – Lower GPA for HOPE Scholarship. All we’ve been hearing about for the last year with respect to HOPE is that it’s running out of money. Now there’s a bill which will reduce the GPA for HOPE eligibility from 3.0 to 2.5. I’m confused. HB 834 – Energy Tax Credits. This bill would …
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Two Months Clean
It’s been two months since I gave Facebook the long drop. In that time I’ve noticed a few times that I wasn’t able to see certain band or event advertisements because they were linked to Facebook pages ((I know I could have clicked through, however my FB account is “deactivated” not deleted, which means if …