Georgia

• Opinion — Misplaced priorities: Policing trans bodies over securing our freedoms

  This means that lawmakers wrote, sponsored, assigned to a committee, debated and voted on a piece of legislation aimed at five people. Trans people are very real; the alleged danger they pose is not.

• Conservation land deal stops Okefenokee mining plan

  After six years, the controversial plan to mine next to Georgia’s beloved Okefenokee Swamp has been halted.

  A little bit of good news here

• Surviving Crossover Day

  I like to imagine that most of what our elected officials do is too boring to report….

  And then I look at the list of things they tried to get through - are still trying to get through the back door - and I add another scar to my pitted, charcoal-blackened heart.

  George Chidi with a solid analysis of Georgia’s legislature politics.

• Dear Decaturish – Georgia families shouldn’t foot the bill for data center power use

  A single data center requires more energy than some municipalities, but it employs fewer than 50 people – a little less than a McDonalds.

  Meanwhile, Georgia households and small businesses—not these corporations—are being asked to cover the rising costs of power generation.

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