Georgia! Georgia on my mind! Welcome 2021! Things are looking promising. Attorney Brian Figeroux shares his thoughts on how the Democrats control of the Senate could allow President-elect Biden to repair the damage of the Trump Administration. There’s hope for immigration, $2000 stimulus checks and more. How will you be impacted? Listen on. Legal Help […]
Raphael Warnock speaks at a campaign event. – Georgia, USA – 1/5/2021 (Shutterstock) By Steve Peoples, Bill Barrow and Ross Bynum, AP ATLANTA (AP) — Democrat Raphael Warnock won one of Georgia’s two Senate runoffs Wednesday, becoming the first Black senator in his state’s history and putting the Senate majority within the party’s reach. A […]
Stacey Abrams speaks at a National Press Club luncheon. – Washington, DC/USA – November 15, 2019 (Shutterstock) By Van Jones, CNN (CNN) – With one Senate seat secured for Democrats in Georgia and the other Senate race yet to be called, it is already clear that there is a lesson to be learned from the runoffs. […]
Trump pardons 15, including people convicted in Mueller probe – Washington, USA 12/23/2020 (Shutterstock) By Eric Lipton, NY Times The call by President Trump on Saturday to Georgia’s secretary of state raised the prospect that Mr. Trump may have violated laws that prohibit interference in federal or state elections, but lawyers said on Sunday that […]
NYPD School Safety Officer in front of school in Lower Manhattan. – New York – May 3, 2018 (Shutterstock) By Stanley S. Litow, The Conversation Since COVID-19 forced many of America’s schools to teach kids remotely, parents and elected officials have been rightly concerned about when things will get back to normal. But there are […]
Rollup banner promotes ‘A Promised Land’, the first volume of Barack Obama’s presidential memoirs, at Sharjah International Book Fair, at Expo Centre Sharjah. – Sharjah, UAE – November 4-14, 2020 President Barack Obama’s thoughtfulness is obvious to anyone who has observed his political career. In his book, A Promised Land he gives us a riveting, deeply personal […]
The Barack Obama Presidential Center – Chicago, USA 11/17/2020 (Shutterstock) By Justine Coleman, MSN Former President Obama on Tuesday labeled the Republican Party as “the minority party in this country” in a late-night interview. The former president told “The Daily Show” host Trevor Noah that the Republican Party does not look like “the minority party” […]
2020 presidential candidate Joe Biden, speaks during an event on Thursday, November 14 at Los Angeles Trade–Technical College, in Los Angeles, Calif. (Shutterstock) By Zack Friedman, Forbes Joe Biden can impact your student loans in many ways even if he doesn’t cancel student loans. Here’s what you need to know. Student Loans President-elect Joe Biden has called […]
By Patricia Callahan, ProPublica In an unusually harsh and pointed report, a U.S. House subcommittee, responding to a ProPublica investigation, found widespread evidence that the nation’s largest manufacturers of car seats “endangered the lives of millions of American children and misled consumers about the safety of booster seats” in crashes that can kill or paralyze […]
By Mike DeBonis and Jeff Stein, The Washington Post The Trump administration on Tuesday proposed an economic relief package that would offer far skimpier federal unemployment benefits than what has been proposed by a bipartisan group of lawmakers, adding an element of uncertainty into the fragile stimulus negotiations, according to two people familiar with the […]