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Education

Save a life: March For Our Lives

This Saturday, March 24, students and people of all ages, led by survivors of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, are headed to the nation’s Capital to demand stricter gun control laws. Marches on the same date are also planned in cities around Georgia. Here’s more info. on how you can take part: Athens Atlanta (Center) Atlanta (West) Clarkesville Covington Dahlonega Ellenwood Rome Savannah Statesboro Watkinsville About a week ago yet another school

74 Shafers Scandal on the Better Georgia Podcast
Better Georgia

74 Shafer’s Scandal

 On today’s episode of The Better Georgia Podcast, we’re going over the recent events involving Georgia senator David Shafer. Listen in to learn more about the scandal with senator David Shafer, and the state of media journalism and their political ties in Georgia. You can Subscribe and Listen to the Podcast on iTunes, and be sure to leave us a Rating and Review! Are voters going to even know that this happened, and will they be able

Healthcare

Everything Trump says about the opioid epidemic is wrong

Trump has no understanding of addiction. His own brother was an alcoholic who died a premature death because of alcoholism and yet his solution is to tell people “just don’t do it.” When prompted for evidence, he has said that he doesn’t drink alcohol and it isn’t that hard. Trump’s new emergency solutions to the opioid crisis look a lot like the old “war on drugs,” and we all know how that turned out: unnecessary

Campus Sexual Assault

Ehrhart is leaving office, but another Ehrhart maybe replacing him

Rep. Earl Ehrhart recently announced that he’s retiring and progressives across the state are counting down the days. For 30 years, Ehrhart has used his position to promote the most destructive conservative policies. In recent years he’s championed legislation that attacks rape survivors while protecting those accused of rape. He’s targeted members of the LGBTQ community, students, immigrants and women. He’s threatened to pull funding for universities that didn’t bow to his backwards policies. Early

72 What Happened to the Better Georgia Podcast?

 You might have been asking yourself: what happened to the Better Georgia Podcast? Well, we haven’t gone away! In fact, we’ve been working on a special project, that we are proud to announce…right now. On Wednesday, February 28 — two days from now — we will be releasing six (yes, six) episodes at the same time. They are all part of a one-time project we are calling Better Georgia’s Candidate School. This project consists

Environment

PSC continues to give Georgia Power the green light

The PSC continues to give Georgia Power the green light on Plant Vogtle. Georgia Power will rake in billions of dollars in profit because the PSC continues to allow the company to finance their failures on the backs of ratepayers. All of this despite many critics of Plant Votgle saying Georgia doesn’t even need more nuclear power. Southern Company, one of the largest energy providers in the country, gave its CEO a 34 percent raise