by JMO Staff | Sep 29, 2025 | Floating Boats
It’s been a rocky start for Georgia’s Pathways to Coverage program, the state’s unique approach to Medicaid. In May, some two years into its existence, only 7,463 Georgians were enrolled, far short of projections. Gov. Brian Kemp has pointed to...
by JMO Staff | Sep 26, 2025 | Floating Boats
In 2023 the Biden Administration changed the name of Columbus’ Fort Benning to Fort Moore as part of an effort to rename military bases that were named after Confederate figures. Earlier this year the Trump Administration changed the fort’s name back to...
by JMO Staff | Sep 25, 2025 | Floating Boats
MacKenzie Scott, the ex-wife of Amazon co-founder Jeff Bezos, has been very generous with the massive fortune she took away from the pair’s divorce in 2019. A large portion of her philanthropy has been focused on Historically Black Colleges and Universities,...
by JMO Staff | Sep 24, 2025 | Floating Boats
It was a particularly hot, dry late summer in Georgia, and farmers are worried that a ‘flash drought’ could have a negative impact on fall harvests. Atlanta hasn’t seen more than 1/10 of an inch of rain in a month, and cities like Columbus and Macon...
by JMO Staff | Sep 23, 2025 | Floating Boats
Roughly half of congressional Democrats nationwide joined Republicans in voting in favor of a resolution honoring the life of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, who was murdered earlier this month in Utah. But only one Georgia Democrat is on that list – U.S....
by JMO Staff | Sep 22, 2025 | Floating Boats
Georgia’s unemployment rate held steady in the month of August, according to numbers from the state Department of Labor. It also added about 1,900 jobs, the seventh consecutive month of job growth. And with unemployment at about 1% below the national average,...
