State PSC members could avoid voters for years as meter runs on Georgia Power rate hikes
Several plaintiffs, including Brionté McCorkle, a director of Georgia Conservation Voters, filed a federal lawsuit in 2020 requesting that a judge change the way public service commissioners are elected arguing that the board fails to adequately represent Black Georgians in regulating public utility rates. Stanley Dunlap/Georgia Recorder (File) A Georgia environmental organization is pushing against…
Democrats’ quest to hang on to U.S. Senate majority centers on Arizona, Montana and Ohio
Democratic U.S. Sens. Jon Tester of Montana, left, and Sherrod Brown of Ohio, right, are seen as the chamber’s most vulnerable incumbent Democrats in 2024. In this photo, Brown, the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee chairman, talks with committee member Tester during a hearing about the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Capitol Hill…
Freedom Caucuses push for conservative state laws, but getting attention is their big success
Sen. Colton Moore and Rep. Charlice Byrd are leaders in Georgia’s state-level Freedom Caucus. Both are often at odds with their chamber’s leadership. Ross Williams/Georgia Recorder JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — When a Republican colleague threatened to read aloud from a 2-foot stack of books — including a biblical guide to leadership and a tome by anti-tax activist Grover Norquist…
State PSC poised to hear Georgia Power’s plan to increase fossil fuel use to power data centers
Every time Georgia Power builds a new gas plant, it gets to fully recover the cost of that construction from customers, and then some. John McCosh/Georgia Recorder Environmental and consumer groups are urging state regulators not to approve Georgia Power’s plans to increase its use of fossil fuels to meet a rapidly growing industrial demand.…
Biden campaign, Jan. 6 officers decry Trump use of ‘political violence’ in post of video
Left to right, former D.C. Metropolitan Police officer Michael Fanone, Metropolitan Police Officer Daniel Hodges, former U.S. Capitol Police Sergeant Aquilino Gonell, and former U.S. Capitol Police officer Harry Dunn are shown attending a hearing by the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol in the Cannon House Office…
Biden to visit Port of Baltimore Friday to review federal response on Key Bridge
Debris is cleared from the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge as efforts begin to reopen the Port of Baltimore on March 31, 2024, in Baltimore, Maryland. The bridge fell into the Patapsco River after being struck by the Dali, a cargo ship leaving the port at around 1:30am on Tuesday. The bodies of two men…