Nearly 18,000 chickens had to be destroyed in Chattooga County last week after being found to have avian influenza, the infamous bird flu. The incident is the first case of bird flu found in a commercial flock in the state. Very worrying for the state’s poultry industry, which is the largest agriculture in the state with an estimated annual economic impact of nearly $26 billion. Hopefully it stays contained, but the threat of such a devastating illness has the state’s poultry industry DRIFTING…
Redistricting spells trouble for some state reps.
It was inevitable that some Georgia state reps. would be dismayed by the proposed redistricted map, the first draft of which was unveiled this week. Eight representatives, six Democrats and two Republicans, have been drawn into the same districts. Among those – Democratic Reps. Sam Park and Greg Kennard of Lawrenceville, Reps. Teri Anulewicz and Doug Stoner of Smyrna, and Republican Reps. Beth Camp of Concord and David Knight of Griffin. The maps will be debated and potentially updated during the special session but for incumbent legislators drawn into the same districts the ship is DRIFTING…
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