by Erik Randolph | Mar 18, 2019 | The Forum
Georgia is a wonderful place to call home, but like many other states it’s desperately lacking in a key area: affordable healthcare. Expanding Medicaid is a popular idea to extend health insurance to more low-income Georgians, but there are three good reasons...
by State Sen. Kay Kirkpatrick | Mar 15, 2019 | The Forum
As a doctor who is married to an emergency doctor, I certainly care about patients in distress. I want to correct some misinformation in Ellen Sims’ March 15 op-ed titled “Will Georgia clean up EMS system?” House Bill 264 was assigned to my committee late on...
by Ellen Sims | Mar 15, 2019 | The Forum
When my family suffered the devastating loss of my mother after our local ambulance provider failed to respond to our calls for help, we couldn’t imagine any greater pain: she was the heart and soul of our family and suddenly she was gone, all because of a...
by Marc Hyden & Kristen Nyman | Mar 14, 2019 | The Forum
In 2008, Pamela Winn landed in jail in Clayton County, Georgia, where she ultimately discovered that she was pregnant. Despite being with child and being charged with a nonviolent offense, as she was transported to and from court, corrections officials shackled...
by Tom Oder | Mar 13, 2019 | The Forum
Many people may not realize that one of Georgia’s top 20 global trading partners is a small island located halfway around the world in the Western Pacific between Japan and the Philippines. The island is Taiwan, officially the Republic of China. Lying just 81...
by D.A. King | Mar 12, 2019 | The Forum
This writer is grateful to IAG for the recent space here to alert readers to the peril of House Bill 202 in the House Rules Committee run by Rep. Jay Powell (R-Camilla). The simple bill would require the Georgia Department of Corrections to inform the public on...
