It’s not often that you’ll get next year’s slate of U.S. Senate candidates to agree on something – but one place they are finding common ground is on the effort to ban stock trading by elected officials. U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff has long been a supporter of the idea of banning lawmakers from trading individual stocks, and U.S. Rep. Mike Collins has co-sponsored the Restore Trust in Congress Act, which would do just that. Fellow U.S. Rep. Buddy Carter and upstart candidate Derek Dooley have voiced their support as well. Unified support has the push for a congressional stock trading ban RISING…
Could Paramount be coming to Georgia?
Paramount Skydance, one of the biggest and most prominent entertainment companies in the world, is furious at its home state of California over a lawsuit filed by the state’s attorney general attempting to stop a merger. In response, Chair David Ellison has threatened to move from Los Angeles to a state not actively suing his company, and Georgia was on the shortlist of possibilities. Gov. Brian Kemp welcomed the speculation at a luncheon Monday (and took a jab at California Gov. Gavin Newsom), and while it’s a longshot the mere possibility of luring Paramount has Georgia RISING…
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