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Audit shows Georgia’s manufacturing tax exemption more than pays for itself

Georgia’s sales tax exemption on inputs used in manufacturing is a loser in the strict sense of its net impact on state and local tax revenues, according to a new audit. However, the tax break more than pays for itself in terms of investment and jobs created in the state’s manufacturing businesses, the Center for Business Analytics and Economic Research at Georgia Southern University concluded in a report commissioned by the Georgia Department of Audits

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State employees received $6.7 million in unemployment benefits in error

Nearly 300 state employees erroneously received unemployment benefits totaling $6.7 million and averaging $23,700 per employee during the last two pandemic years, the Georgia Office of Inspector General (OIG) reported Wednesday. In a letter to David Dove, Gov. Brian Kemp’s executive counsel, Inspector General Mike McAfee wrote that data obtained from the U.S. Department of Labor and the State Accounting Office (SAO) tentatively identified more than 280 full-time state employees who erroneously received unemployment insurance

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Crisis in Congress Day 2: How did Georgia’s Representatives vote for Speaker of the House?

Day 2 of the 118th Congress ended the same as Day 1, with no speaker and no Congress members sworn in. Three more votes were taken to elect a Speaker of the House and three more times Congress failed to elect a speaker. Currently, Congress is adjourned until noon Thursday, giving Kevin McCarthy and House Freedom Caucus members more time to negotiate. Here is how your representative in Congress voted on each of today’s three

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Moneypenny donates $5,000 to Rainbow Village charity

Instead of sending Christmas cards to its clients, Moneypenny donated $5,000 to Rainbow Village (Duluth) to support their mission of providing help, hope, housing, and healing to families experiencing homelessness. Rainbow Village provides a safe housing community where dignity, self-respect, and hope are restored to families in need. The charity aims not to work for its families, but rather with the families and to truly listen to their personalized needs and guide them to wholeness. 

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Former manager at Houck’s Grille sentenced for embezzling $300,000 from the restaurant

An ex-manager at Houck’s Grille in Roswell was sentenced to two years in prison after prosecutors say he used a company credit card to rack up $300,000 in personal visits to adult entertainment clubs. According to U.S. Attorney Ryan Buchanan, the charges and other information presented in court, Scott Spilberg was hired as the manager at Houck’s Grille in August 2020. Beginning in October 2020, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Spilberg began using his

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GBI releases new rendering of woman who was found dismembered in Liberty County

The GBI and the Liberty County Sheriff’s Office are continuing to ask for the public’s help identifying a woman who was found dismembered last month. The GBI released an updated forensic artist’s rendering of the woman today. Initially, partial remains of a white woman were discovered off Jones Road in the woods of the Portal Hunting Club in Riceboro in Liberty County. Additional remains were discovered within a three-mile radius on the hunting club property in