by Ty Tagami | Jun 26, 2025 | James Magazine
When younger students return to Georgia public schools this fall, they will learn an old-school skill: handwriting. New changes to the state standards for English Language Arts will require the teaching of cursive writing in elementary school. The state Board...
by Ty Tagami | Jun 24, 2025 | James Magazine
This fall, thousands of Georgia students will attend a private school or study at home, and state government will help them pay for it. Republican lawmakers led a push last year to give families $6,500 a year per student toward private education. Georgia...
by Ty Tagami | Jun 18, 2025 | James Magazine
Georgia will join other states and U.S. territories in a settlement that extracts $7.4 billion from Purdue Pharma and its owners, the Sackler family, as recompense for their role in the opioid crisis that ravaged the country for a generation. “For years, the...
by Ty Tagami | Jun 9, 2025 | James Magazine
Another football celebrity with ties to the University of Georgia could be headed for the state’s political big leagues, as former University of Tennessee head coach Derek Dooley weighs a run for U.S. Senate. The son of legendary Bulldogs coach Vince Dooley is...
by Ty Tagami | Jun 6, 2025 | James Magazine
The wide-open race for governor of Georgia in the next election will have Democrats assailing Republicans on access to health care and other quality of life issues, as a fourth liberal partisan enters the race. State Rep. Derrick Jackson, a retired naval...
