Statewide
Budget cuts creating GBI lab backlog
3/4/2010
By Josh Green, Staff Writer
DECATUR — Budget woes have tossed a proverbial wrench in the assembly line of crime lab reports generated by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, and criminal prosecution in Gwinnett is feeling the effects.
Three of the GBI’s seven branch laboratories — in Columbus, Summerville and Moultrie in south Georgia — are slated to close March 31. Officials are mulling an 8 percent trim to a crime lab budget that recently stood at $19.1 million.
Karen Handel's office didn't take furloughs as required
2/12/2010
BY KEN STANFORD EDITOR
Democrats want ethics panel member suspended
2/2/2010
4:57 pm February 1, 2010, by
The Democratic Party of Georgia on Monday called on the newest member of the State Ethics Commission to suspend his own appointment to the panel.
Why our union is stronger than a year ago - Jane Kidd, Democratic Party of Georgia Chair
1/24/2010
(published Sunday 1/24/10 in the AJC)
AJC Question: "As President Obama prepares to address the nation Wednesday, is the state of the union better or worse than it was one year ago?"
Republican Budget Reduces Ethics Funding
1/23/2010Atlanta, GA - Governor Sonny Perdue's proposed 2011 budget will weaken ethical investigations into the behavior of state politicians. The proposal comes just weeks after the House Speaker's resignation due to an affair with a lobbyist.
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