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Ex-Senate budget director: will take a generation to recover from school...
The same day last week that an influential state committee proposed a $258 million hike in school funding, Georgia State University’s Carolyn Bourdeaux was making it clear that the proposed increase...
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Haunted by Caroline Small case, ex-prosecutors speak out
The AJC/Channel 2 investigation of the Caroline Small killing drew national attention to the police shooting case in July. Ex-Glynn County prosecutor David Peterson. Photo: Stephen Morton Four people...
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Georgia lawmakers balance the budget but, like Congress, pile on big debt
Lawmakers in most states are proud to remind constituents that, unlike Congress, they approve balanced budgets every year. A large-scale replica of a large mouth bass shows the inside and outside of...
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Caroline Small family ask Governor, AG to review police shooting
The way the Caroline Small police shooting case was handled by local officials in Glynn County has been called a miscarriage of justice by many who have read the AJC/Channel 2 Action News investigation...
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A small step toward slowing the Legislature’s fee-diversion machine
Hundreds of millions of dollars in fee and fine money has been diverted by lawmakers over the past few decades, but an Atlanta lawmaker is trying to take a small step toward changing that long-running...
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Georgia ethics watchdog: Oxendine loan could be a felony
State ethics officials say former Georgia Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine may have committed a felony by loaning $237,000 that he raised for his unsuccessful 2010 gubernatorial campaign to his own...
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Police: 1,500 sexual assault kits need testing? Meh.
With Atlanta joining cities across the nation such as Detroit and Cleveland that are tackling large numbers of untested rape kits, the response from local cops seems largely a resounding ‘meh.’ As you...
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Will veterans’ families have to pay Georgia to be buried together?
The Georgia House Appropriations Committee asked auditors to review the state’s veterans services and figure out if there were ways the state could come up with more money to help Georgia’s Vets. At...
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Failing national tracking system of police shootings to be replaced
The FBI this week announced it would replace its national system for tracking fatal police shootings that one senior official dubbed a “travesty.” Glynn County Police killed Ga.mother Caroline Small in...
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Georgians will be paying millions for projects until the 2030s
Some kids who make their first catch in the pond behind the Go Fish Center in Houston County this year will be juniors and seniors in high school around the time Georgians stop paying off the education...
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Once seen as money pit, State of Georgia putting costly building up for sale
Back in the 1990s it was common to hear lawmakers grumble about the cost of rehabbing the 2 Peachtree Building, a 41-story giant a few steps from the Five Points MARTA station. 2 Peachtree Street...
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Nightclub owner named in AJC investigation tangles with Frank Ski
An Atlanta nightclub owner named in an Atlanta Journal-Constitution investigation into the city’s workforce development agency is back in the news – this time, over radio personality Frank Ski’s...
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Ruling in Oxendine case could have chilling effect on ethics investigations
When state ethics commission staffers audited former Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine’s 2010 gubernatorial campaign records after an Atlanta Journal-Constitution report earlier this year, they...
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Carolina coal ash waste finds new home in north Georgia
Georgia Power’s Plant Bowen in Cartersville, HYOSUB SHIN / HSHIN@AJC.COM Power behemoth Duke Energy is shipping coal ash that North and South Carolina don’t want to north Georgia. For months, trucks...
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Douglas police shooting 29th this year
Monday night’s fatal shooting of a Douglas County man was the 29th police shooting in Georgia this year, according to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s exclusive database of fatal police shootings....
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This is how a derelict Atlanta bungalow doubled in value in four months
This English Avenue property on Joseph E. Boone Boulevard changed hands and more than doubled in value in four months. One year after an Atlanta Journal-Constitution investigation into a white Buckhead...
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Auditors not sure Georgia’s $15 million teacher incentive program is worth it
A new state audit argues that lawmakers may want to reconsider the need for incentive programs aimed at attracting more and better-trained math and science teachers. Georgia State CapitolBRANT...
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Republican legislators pick early fight with Nathan Deal over lucrative...
Rep. David Stover, R-Newnan isn’t waiting for the start of the 2016 General Assembly session to pick a fight with the statehouse’s most powerful politicians. Rep. David Stover R- Newnan Neither is...
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Oxendine legal bill climbing as he fights ethics charges, may be bad news for...
Former Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine’s legal bills are starting to mount as he finally gets his day before the ethics commission – and probably the courts – in hopes of fighting off a series of...
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Ga. House leader Jon Burns failed to disclose payments
Georgia law requires politicians to publicly disclose income from state agencies on personal financial disclosure statements available for anyone to see. House Majority Leader Jon Burns failed to...
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