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 Dave Williams | Jun 25, 2025 | James Magazine
Increased storage capacity is helping the Port of Savannah offset some of the impacts of the tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump. Last month was Savannah’s second busiest May on record, exceeded only by May of 2022. Savannah handled 500,900 twenty-foot...
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 JMO Staff | Jun 23, 2025 | James Magazine
Guest host Russ Spencer opens the June 22 show with debate over a journalist’s arrest at an anti-Trump protest who already was subject to deportation. Analysis then turns to results of low-turnout Public Service Commission party primaries. An ad by supporters of a GOP...
by Dave Williams | Jun 20, 2025 | James Magazine
Georgia’s unemployment rate fell slightly in April to 3.5%, seven-tenths below the national jobless rate, the state Department of Labor reported Thursday. “After holding steady at 3.6% for nearly a year – and recent job growth – we’re proving once again that...
by Dave Williams | Jun 19, 2025 | James Magazine
It took the Georgia Department of Transportation seven months to finish clearing the massive amounts of debris Hurricane Helene left across a wide swath of the state, an engineer with the agency said Wednesday. The DOT used 2,134 employees in the response to the storm...
