by JMO Staff | Jun 23, 2025 | Floating Boats
A six year saga drew to a close last week with the announcement that a conservation group had purchased the land bordering the Okefenokee Swamp in south Georgia that had long been eyed by a mining company. The Conservation Fund, a nonprofit dedicated to buying up...
by JMO Staff | Jun 20, 2025 | Floating Boats
Former U.S. Attorney Bobby Christine has been called up by the Trump Administration once again, this time to serve as Judge Advocate General for the U.S. Army. That would make him the head of the Judge Advocate General’s Corps, better known as JAG, the legal...
by JMO Staff | Jun 19, 2025 | Floating Boats
A follow up to yesterday’s Floating Boat – Georgia Senate Republicans this week also nominated state Sen. Larry Walker III, R-Perry, as president pro tem. That nomination won’t become a full election until the General Assembly convenes in January,...
by JMO Staff | Jun 18, 2025 | Floating Boats
The Georgia Senate Republican Caucus on Tuesday elected state Sen. Jason Anavitarte, R-Dallas, as the new Senate Majority Leader. He succeeds state Sen. Steve Gooch, R-Dahlonega, who is running for lt. governor. Only elected to the state legislature in 2021,...
by JMO Staff | Jun 17, 2025 | Floating Boats
If former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms thought her angle in the 2026 gubernatorial race was to consolidate support at the City Hall she used to call home, she might have to think again. City Council President Doug Shipman and Councilmembers Eshé Collins, Jason...
by JMO Staff | Jun 16, 2025 | Floating Boats
Among the federal offices swept up in the DOGE cuts was the U.S. Geological Survey’s office in Norcross, which monitors flooding and water pollution around the Southeast. Environmentalist groups such as Chattahoochee Riverkeeper urged lawmakers to push for its...
