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Ethics

HHS Sec. Tom Price jet-setting on taxpayers’ dime

The Trump administration continues its pattern of corruption and hypocrisy. Episodes ranging from Jared Kushner, Reince Priebus and Steve Bannon using their personal email accounts for work-related information after the Trump administration slammed Hillary Clinton to Trump spending over $20 million in taxpayer money on trips to Mar-a-Largo. Now Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price has been jet-setting at taxpayers’ expense, both before and after he vowed to wring out wasteful spending in the government’s health

Energy

Utility regulators shirking duties

The Georgia Public Service Commission is poised to allow Georgia Power to continue to build the two new Plant Vogtle reactors, although the project is now years behind schedule and billions of dollars over budget. The Commission — an elected body that is currently all Republican — needs to hear from Georgians about the problems with their lax approach as regulators. If nothing changes, we will all continue to be on the hook for these

Ethics

White state rep. threatens black former colleague over Confederate statues

State Rep. Jason Spencer told his former colleague LaDawn Jones that people “go missing in the Okefenokee” when they talk about removing statues commemorating the nation’s Confederate history. Threats like this are absolutely unacceptable, particularly in a political climate where people of color are experiencing deadly violence at the hands of white supremacists. After Spencer posted a picture of himself on Facebook posing near a Jefferson Davis memorial, Jones commented that Confederate memorials would ultimately

Equality, Rights & Justice Issues

Fate of Stone Mountain, other confederate monuments up for debate

An openly white supremacist President and stunning violence from white supremacists around the country has reignited a debate about this country’s history and how we remember it. In Georgia, discussions about Confederate monuments — and whether or not they should stay up — have prompted protests in Atlanta and Augusta. Leaders from around the state have had a range of responses, with the likes of U.S. Sen. David Perdue and civil rights icon Andrew Young

Ethics

Tom Price faces ethics complaint

Georgia’s Tom Price may be in trouble again, after an ethics group filed a complaint stating he illegally used campaign funds to support his nomination to Secretary of Health and Human Services. Price, the Congressman turned Secretary of HHS under the Trump administration, is no stranger to accusations of ethical misdeeds. During his confirmation hearings, it came to light that he had made himself a nice chunk of change trading stocks in the medical industry

Energy

Ga. utility regulators get treated to $7,700 dinner…by utility lobbyists

The Georgia Public Service Commission just got treated to a $7,700 meal by utility lobbyists. I can’t even imagine how one eats $7,700 worth of food and drink in one sitting. I can, however, imagine the conversations that were happening in light of Georgia Power’s recent troubles with the Plant Vogtle nuclear expansion. The five member of the PSC, and some of their staff, got treated to a real nice meal paid for by several