Powerball jackpot scales upward to $183M
Tweet Special to the Journal ATLANTA – Powerball is moving onward as the jackpot for Wednesday’s drawing is up to $183 million to a single annuity winner. The excitement is spreading across Georgia as Powerball continues to roll. The jackpot has grown since Feb. 9 and has rolled nine times.
Read More →State Launches Sober Driving Partnership For St. Patrick’s Day
Tweet Special to the Journal ATLANTA, Ga. – (ATLANTA) The Governor’s Office of Highway Safety (GOHS) has launched a life-saving partnership with safe and sober driving coalition TEAM Georgia to make sure Georgia motorists know that if they drive impaired this St. Patrick’s Day, they’ll need a lot more than the luck of the Irish [...]
Read More →Georgia’s unemployment rate unchanged at 8.7 percent in January
Tweet Special to the Journal Atlanta, Ga – The Georgia Department of Labor announced today that Georgia’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for January was 8.7 percent, unchanged from December. The rate was 9.3 percent in January a year ago.
Read More →Powerball advances to $123M for Wednesday’s drawing
Tweet Special to the Journal Atlanta, Ga – The Powerball jackpot has advanced to $123 million to a single annuity winner for Wednesday’s drawing after no one matched all six winning numbers Saturday.
Read More →HUDGENS REMINDS GEORGIANS: CHANGE YOUR CLOCK (AND YOUR BATTERY) EARLY THIS YEAR
Tweet Special to the Journal ATLANTA, Ga – Insurance and Safety Fire Commissioner Ralph Hudgens wants to remind Georgians that when they change their clocks to daylight saving time this Sunday, they should also change the batteries in their smoke alarms.
Read More →BISHOP ADVOCATES FOR EXTENSION OF PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD ON ARMY PLAN FOR BRIGADE WITHDRAWL
Tweet Special to the Journal COLUMBUS, GA – In response to a letter sent by Congressman Sanford D. Bishop Jr. (GA-02), Ranking Member of the U.S. House of Representatives’ Appropriations Subcommittee on Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies, the Army has granted an extension of 30 days to the public comment period for their [...]
Read More →SCOTUS rules against Phoebe
Tweet Staff Reports Albany, Ga – Phoebe Putney gets cast as the “evil empire” here in Albany by some who believe the hospital has gotten to big or has lost sight of what a hospital is supposed to be. Those opponents are no doubt thrilled by news that the Supreme Court has ruled against the [...]
Read More →Secretary Vilsack Announces Funding to Improve Rural Electric Service for Customers in 12 States
Tweet Special to the Journal NEW ORLEANS, La. – today announced that rural electric cooperatives and utilities in 12 states will receive loan guarantees to improve generation and transmission facilities and implement smart grid technologies. The announcement was made on the Secretary’s behalf by USDA Rural Utilities Acting Administrator John Padalino during the annual meeting [...]
Read More →WILDLIFE CONSERVATION EFFORTS TO SUPPORT LOCAL ECONOMIES AND PRESERVE FARM AND RANCH TRADITIONS
Tweet Special to the Journal ATHENS, GA, – State Conservationist James E. Tillman Sr., of the USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), announced today that financial assistance of $4.5 million was approved under the Wildlife Habitat Incentive Program (WHIP) to help sustain breeding populations of the gopher tortoise and golden-winged warbler through the Working Lands For [...]
Read More →Chambliss and Isakson: Unions Shouldn’t Get Special Treatment Under Obamacare
Tweet Special to the Journal WASHINGTON, DC – Today, U.S. Sens. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., and Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., joined 31 of their Senate colleagues in writing a letter to President Obama criticizing the administration’s consideration of proposals to give labor unions special treatment by providing subsidies to cover the rising cost of union health care [...]
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