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Nathan Deal’s “Gift” to Georgia’s Students: Huge Cuts to HOPE Scholarship

In 2011, mere months after he was elected, Gov. Deal announced he was giving “a gift to future generations of Georgia’s outstanding students”: he was about to slash the budget for the HOPE scholarship just as many low-income families needed help the most. Since those cuts, the number of HOPE recipients has fallen from 256,000 students in 2010-11 to fewer than 160,000 students this year. In addition, while the scholarship used to cover the full

What do you know about David Perdue?

Two weeks from today, all eyes will be on the GOP primary election for U.S. Senate. Why? Because on May 20, two candidates will be headed to a likely runoff, fighting to win approval from their ultra-conservative base. Those two candidates will generate massive Georgia media coverage for months, and in July, one of them will be nominated, making that candidate a national news figure and a reflection of our state to the world. That candidate

Why did Gov. Deal’s campaign hijack this press conference?

Gov. Nathan Deal continues to hide behind his lawyers when it comes to any questions about his auto salvage business and the company — his $20,000 per month tenant — that owes the state $74 million in back taxes. In an event that is too strange for words, Gov. Deal sent his personal attorney and other campaign staffers to disrupt a press conference being held by one of two Republican primary challengers. Even WSB-TV’s Justin

Too busy for Georgia.

We’ve seen a troubling pattern with Gov. Nathan Deal. Instead of taking care of Georgia’s business, Gov. Deal is busy taking care of his own personal interests and constantly trying to fix scandals. Whether he is preparing to testify in court about an alleged cover-up of his campaign’s finance violations, or putting $76 million dollars in federal funding at risk, or collecting $20,000 per month rent from one of Georgia’s largest corporate tax debtors, Gov.

Gov. Deal’s half-million-dollar per week failure

When it comes to expensive, frustrating and broken websites for government programs, the President’s got nothing on Gov. Nathan Deal. Georgia taxpayers are shelling out nearly half a million dollars a week just in overtime pay to fix Gov. Deal’s broken system for Georgia’s neediest families – those applying for help to feed their families. And, what does Gov. Deal think about this problem? He told 11Alive’s Rebecca Lindstrom that, despite a November letter from

While education sinks, Gov. Deal tries to tread water

After neglecting our public schools for the entirety of his term, Gov. Deal is hoping to save face with parents and educators by “adding” $547 million to education funding in his new budget. While that might sound like welcome news, it’s nothing more than an election-year money dump, with the hope that voters will forget the devastating cuts in Deal’s previous budgets. Gov. Deal has consistently cut public school funding by $1 billion or more