Georgia
US Senate: Georgia election will advance this fundamental change
Even if Republicans win both races, they will control the Senate majority with only 52 seats. If Democrats win both, they will eke out a 50-50 Senate majority with the tie-breaking vote of incoming Vice President Kamala Harris. A split would produce a 51-49 GOP majority. The fact that neither side will control more than …
Breaking down the Georgia runoff election, what makes those races important nationwide
ROCHESTER, Minn. (KTTC) — Control of the U.S. Senate is in the hands of two runoff races in Georgia. “In the general election in November, neither of the two Georgia races had one candidate get over 50 percent,” said Chad Israelson, KTTC political analyst. “So the way that Georgia’s election process works is that it …
Dems feel ‘a great deal of urgency’ ahead of Georgia runoffs: Stacey Abrams
Stacey Abrams, the founder of Fair Fight, said Sunday that Democrats feel a “great deal of urgency” around Georgia’s two runoff elections on Tuesday, which will determine the balance of power in the Senate just as President-elect Joe Biden takes office. “We did very well in vote by mail, we did very well in early …
Georgia college student sentenced to four months in prison for breaking Cayman Islands’ Covid-19 protocol
Skylar Mack, a pre-med student at Mercer University, left for the Islands November 27 after testing negative for Covid-19 at home, her grandmother, Jeanne Mack, told CNN. When Mack landed, she was given another Covid-19 test, which came back negative and she was told to remain in isolation for two weeks. Instead, she decided to …
Covid vaccine to be given to Georgia health official today
Dr. Kathleen Toomey will receive the vaccine this afternoon at Grady Memorial Hospital, along with a Grady ICU nurse. ATLANTA — Dr. Kathleen Toomey, the commissioner of the Georgia Department of Public Health, will be vaccinated today at Grady Memorial Hospital as the first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine arrive around Atlanta. Dr. Toomey will …
Hamilton County students develop adaptive technology with Spotify product manager
Sukriti Chadha, a product manager for Spotify specializing in adaptive technology, is passionate about encouraging students to pursue careers in technology. When she left Manhattan to stay with a friend in Chattanooga during the pandemic, she took an opportunity to work with Red Bank High School students to design projects that would help a peer …
Trump calls Georgia governor to pressure him for help overturning Biden’s win in the state
Hours before he was scheduled to hold a rally in Georgia on behalf of the state’s two GOP senators, Trump pressed Kemp to call a special session of the state legislature for lawmakers to override the results and appoint electors who would back the president at the electoral college, according to two people familiar with …
Trump roils Georgia GOP as party waits to see if presidential visit helps or hurts Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue in Senate run-offs
That war showed no signs of abating this week, with competing GOP factions growing increasingly angry and distrustful of one another. Leading the charge on one side were two attorneys who say they support Trump, offering a fiery news conference Wednesday urging Republicans to withhold their votes from the Jan. 5 runoffs if leaders don’t …
Georgia Bone & Joint now offers the latest technology with highly advanced robotic-arm assisted joint replacement
SPONSORED FEATURE Innovative robotic technology allows surgeons at Georgia Bone and Joint to personalize total knee, partial knee, and total hip replacement procedures for our patients Georgia Bone & Joint is the first in our area to offer Mako SmartRobotics. This advancement in joint replacement surgery transforms the way total knee, partial knee, and total …
Tracking prescriptions with technology: EirSystems CTO Kenston O’Neal helps forge new tools to fight fraud and abuse
Kenston O’Neal says he always has been a tech-oriented person. “Even growing up as a kid when I got my first computer, I took it apart to see if I could put it back together,” he says. “My mom said ‘You better put it back together and it better work,’ and I did and it …
