by JMO Staff | Aug 14, 2024 | Floating Boats
A bill sponsored by U.S. Reps. Sanford Bishop, D-GA, and Buddy Carter, R-GA, would rename the United States Department of Agriculture National Poultry Research Center in Athens after Francis “Abit” Massey, a longtime lobbyist who represented poultry farmers in the...
by JMO Staff | Aug 13, 2024 | Floating Boats
Jason Carter, grandson of former President Jimmy Carter and one-time gubernatorial candidate is expected to speak at next week’s Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Several other Georgians including U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock are expected to speak as...
by JMO Staff | Aug 12, 2024 | Floating Boats
Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is facing a growing list of challenges that could throw his Georgia candidacy into question. The latest is in New York where a judge is deciding whether Kennedy used a false address in declaring New York residency, which...
by JMO Staff | Aug 9, 2024 | Floating Boats
Chief Judge A. Gregory Poole of the Cobb Judicial Circuit this week declared a judicial emergency following some major issues in the Superior Court Clerk’s Office that include, “the inability of court staff and litigants to retrieve information about cases,...
by JMO Staff | Aug 8, 2024 | Floating Boats
Since the Georgia Judicial Qualifications Commission was restructured in 2017 it has been overseen by Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney as the presiding officer of its three-member hearing panel. But after a successful seven-year stint McBurney...
by JMO Staff | Aug 7, 2024 | Floating Boats
Yesterday Bloomberg Philanthropies announced the largest-ever donation to HBCUs, a whopping $600 million that will go towards the four HBCU medical schools in the U.S. One of those is the Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, which will receive $175 million, the...
