Solomon’s Masonic Lodge, the first in Georgia, was organized on December 10, 1735. Upon his return to the colony, James Oglethorpe would join the group.
On December 11, 1777, during their movement to Valley Forge for the winter, Washington’s colonial forces engaged British troops under General Cornwallis as the Americans were crossing the Schuylkill River.
John Jay was elected President of the Continental Congress on December 10, 1778.
Indiana became the 19th State on December 11, 1816.
Emory College was incorporated on December 10, 1836, as Governor William Schley signed legislation chartering the school.
Governor Charles McDonald signed legislation on December 11, 1841 to prevent a person from having his or her testimony excluded in court because of the individual’s religious beliefs.
The first use of nitrous oxide as a dental anesthetic took place on December 11, 1844.
On December 10, 1850, a special convention met in Milledgeville to determine the state’s reaction to the Compromise of 1850, a series of five bills passed in Congress attempting to deal with issues between slave states and free states.
The [Georgia] platform established Georgia’s conditional acceptance of the Compromise of 1850. Much of the document followed a draft written by Charles Jones Jenkins and represented a collaboration between Georgia Whigs and moderate Democrats dedicated to preserving the Union. In effect, the proclamation accepted the measures of the compromise so long as the North complied with the Fugitive Slave Act and would no longer attempt to ban the expansion of slavery into new territories and states. Northern contempt for these conditions, the platform warned, would make secession inevitable.
This qualified endorsement of the Compromise of 1850 essentially undermined the movement for immediate secession throughout the South. Newspapers across the nation credited Georgia with saving the Union.
The Atlanta City Council appointed the first Board of Education on December 10, 1869.
On December 11, 1872, Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback took office in Louisiana as the first black Governor in the United States.
A memorial service for Jefferson Davis, former President of the Confederate States of America, was held in the Georgia State Capitol on December 11, 1889 while his funeral was that day in New Orleans.
The Spanish-American War was ended on December 10, 1898, with the signing of the Treaty of Paris.
On December 11, 1941, Germany declared war on the United States.
On December 11, 1960, a civil rights demonstration including 8000 African-American citizens was held in Atlanta as part of the movement to boycott stores that remained segregated.
The Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on December 10, 1964 in Oslo, Norway, becoming the youngest recipient of the award.
The Libertarian Party was founded on December 11, 1971 in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Jimmy Carter was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on December 10, 2002.
Georgia Politics, Campaigns, and Elections
Voters are going to the polls in the Special Runoff Election for Senate District 35, formerly held by Democrat Jason Esteves, who is running for Governor, according to the Savannah Morning News.
Early voting in Georgia’s state senate runoff election has now begun for District 35, an area that covers parts of Fulton and Cobb counties.
Jason Esteves, a Columbus native who held the seat from 2023 until 2025, resigned the position in September to focus on his race for governor in 2026 and allow his campaign to raise money during the legislative session.
A special election was held on Nov. 18, but with no candidate reaching a majority of votes, the top two finishers head to a runoff.
Roger Bruce is a former state representative for District 61 which includes the City of South Fulton, Douglas County and parts of Fulton and Cobb counties. He was first elected in 2003 and served in the state house for 20 years before his retirement.
Jaha Howard grew up in District 35 and now runs a pediatric dental office in Atlanta. Howard served on the Cobb County Board of Education for four years and was appointed to Cobb’s Transit Advisory Board. He co-founded Families Against Racism in the aftermath of the Ahmaud Arbery case in 2020.
Jaha Howard, the former school board member and a Democrat from Smyrna, received the most votes [in the November 18, 2025 Special Election], according to results from the secretary of state’s office. Howard faces former state Rep. Roger Bruce, a 22-year House veteran who retired at the beginning of the year. A runoff is required when no candidate receives more than 50% of the vote.
Bruce has said one reason he decided to run is because he believes the time between Esteves’ resignation and the special election wasn’t enough for voters to vet a candidate and “pick someone long term.”
“Me running will give you that time, and then you still have somebody there that knows the process while you’re taking the time that you need to vet these candidates and make sure you get the right person there long term,” Bruce said at a recent meet-and-greet in Smyrna.
If elected, he said he likely wouldn’t seek another term in 2026.
Early voting in the Senate District 35 special election started Monday and goes through Friday. Election Day is Tuesday.
Democrat Eric Gisler was elected to the State House from District 121 in yesterday’s Special Runoff Election, according to The Hill via WSAV.
Democrat Eric Gisler was projected to defeat Republican Mack Guest IV in the special election in Georgia’s House District 121, according to Decision Desk HQ.
Gisler’s victory is a major upset, as President Trump won the district last year by 12 points, according to DDHQ. Democrats were hopeful they could score an upset after overperforming in a recent Tennessee special election. They also flipped two seats on the Georgia Public Service Commission in November, sending shockwaves through the state’s political circles.
It was the second big win for the party on Tuesday night; earlier, Democrats flipped the Miami mayor’s office, breaking GOP control for the first time in nearly three decades.
The victories will add further wind in the party’s sails as they look toward next year’s midterms, where they’re hoping that an energized voter base and a messaging emphasizing affordability will help them flip the House and potentially the Senate.
From the Athens Banner Herald:
Democratic Party candidate Eric Gisler defeated Republican Mack “Dutch” Guest in Tuesday’s special election in Clarke and Oconee counties in a close vote that unofficial results show a victory of 197 votes.
Gisler was elected to the Georgia House District 121 seat that was vacated in October with the resignation of Marcus Wiedower, a Republican who has held the seat since 2018.
The Secretary of State unofficial final results show 5,873 votes for Gisler and 5,676 votes for Guest.
In Clarke County, Gisler won by a wide margin, gathering about 82% of the vote by winning 3,115 to 669. In the heavily Republican county of Oconee, Guest took about 64% of the vote at 5,007, while Gisler received about 35% or 2,758 votes.
“Georgians deserve strong, commonsense leaders like Representative-Elect Gisler who will lower their costs and fight for them, not representatives who bend the knee to Donald Trump and rubber-stamp his inflationary agenda,” Democratic National Committee Chairman Ken Martin said in a released statement following the election win. “Tonight’s results prove once again that Democrats have the momentum across the country as we organize and compete everywhere, including in districts that Trump won by double-digits.”
Gisler, who works in information technology, focused his campaign on housing and health care. He will replace former Republican state Rep. Marcus Wiedower, who resigned in October to focus more time on his real estate business. Wiedower had won with 61% of the vote last year, and President Donald Trump won with about 56%.
Gov. Brian Kemp had endorsed Guest, who operates a trucking company.
Democrats in November ousted two GOP incumbents for seats on the state’s Public Service Commission, which sets Georgia Power’s electricity rates and regulates other utilities. The upsets were the first non-federal statewide wins for Democrats since 2006.
It takes 91 seats in the 180-member chamber to hold the majority. Democrats, who last held the majority more than two decades ago, had 80 seats, and Republicans had 100.
With Gisler’s victory, Democrats will now hold 81.
“All across the state, Georgians are realizing there’s only one party that’s working to lower costs, keep health care affordable, and put people ahead of big corporations — and that’s the Democratic Party,” said Charlie Bailey, chair of the Democratic Party of Georgia.
DPG spent $50,000 toward Gisler’s race. His success will also usher in more support from the Democratic National Committee.
“Fresh off the resounding victories in the Georgia Public Service Commissioner races and now this historic flip, the DNC will continue to invest, organize, and compete in every corner of Georgia as we rebuild long-standing Democratic power in the Sun Belt,” DNC Chair Ken Martin said in a statement.
Gisler told us he pulled off his upset with a mix of shoe leather and strategic messaging. His campaign knocked on 8,000 doors, made 10,000 phone calls to voters and focused on affordability, health care access and election security.
“What I’m taking away from this is people were fed up with business as usual. People are looking for solutions,” he said.
Keeping the seat during next year’s general election won’t be easy. Republicans carved deep-blue Athens into four districts, and Gisler’s territory was among the three drawn for a GOP candidate to win.
“I’m going to draw a wedge between MAGA Republicans and mainstream Republicans,” Gisler said. “I want to show them it’s OK to vote for a Democrat.”
Two candidates will face off in a Special Runoff Election for State House District 23 on January 6, 2026, according to 11Alive.
As for State House District 23, which encompasses portions of Cherokee County there were six candidates vying for the spot: Republicans Bill Fincher; Brice Futch; Ann Gazell; Raj Sagoo; William Ware; and Democrat Scott Sanders.
None of the candidates met the 50 percent plus one vote threshold during Tuesday’s special election. The unofficial results show Fincher will advance to the runoff to face the lone Democrat, Sanders. The runoff is set for Jan. 6.
This special election was called after the passing of State Rep. Mandi Ballinger. The House Speaker shared in October she died after a “long and courageous” battle with cancer.
Fincher, a Republican former district attorney who now owns an RV park, finished with the most votes at 1,373, good for 27.4% of the vote, while Scott Sanders, a business executive, got 1,340 votes, or about 26.7%. The remaining votes were divided among four other Republican candidates.
In a phone call, Fincher said he chalked up his first-place finish to his team connecting directly with voters, and he thanked his opponents and asked for their support for the coming runoff.
“Our biggest strength was teamwork, communication directly with the voters, and with the quality of people that ran, all the candidates, top-notch people trying to do their best, all being positive, all dignified. And when you run a race like that, there’s mutual respect among every one of us,” Fincher said.
Sanders said his second-place finish “shows there’s Democrats up here in Cherokee County.”
“We went into this eyes wide open, knowing how red the district was,” he said. “It was a district that Trump won by 45 points, so we knew it was going to be an uphill battle, but we also intended to take this seriously and make it a hard-fought campaign, and we did.”
Sanders said he would not have made it to the runoff without his team of volunteers, who knocked on nearly 2,000 doors in three weeks in order to get out the vote.
With the runoff set for Jan. 6 – less than a month away, with most of that right in the middle of holiday season when people are more concerned with travel and celebrations than politics – both remaining candidates said they will work hard to keep up the momentum.
“Georgia Republicans, we need to sound the alarm from now until November, starting with helping Bill Fincher win the runoff for HD 23,” Republican Insurance Commissioner John King, who is up for reelection next year, posted on social media. “Our donors aren’t motivated and our voters aren’t either.”
The State Election Board warned former Republican U.S. Rep. Drew Ferguson that he has voted illegally, according to the AJC.
The State Election Board on Tuesday found that former U.S. Rep. Drew Ferguson, who raised concerns in the past about election fraud, voted multiple times in a county where he no longer lived.
The state board resolved the case in a 2-0 vote, issuing a letter of instruction to the former Republican congressman because it’s illegal for Georgia voters to cast a ballot in a county where they don’t have a residence.
“This is something that is concerning, not just with what happened with the congressman, but just people not knowing that if you don’t change your registration within 30 days of moving, that will constitute an election violation,” State Election Board member Janelle King said.
Ferguson voted in Troup County three times in 2022, even though he sold his house in April of that year and moved to Pike County.
The former congressman’s voting record shows that he has since cast ballots in Pike County, most recently in March.
State Election Board Chair John Fervier and Sara Tindall Ghazal, the Democratic Party’s appointee, were absent on Tuesday. The board’s right-wing trio — once praised by President Donald Trump — ran the meeting.
Johnston recused herself from voting on the case, citing a personal relationship with Ferguson’s family.
More than a million Georgia residents will likely see higher health insurance rates due to the expiration of ACA subsidies, according to the Savannah Morning News.
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) tax credit helps eligible individuals and families lower the cost of health insurance bought through the federal marketplace. A COVID-19 relief package passed in 2021 capped premiums for an average marketplace plan to 8.5% of income.
An extension of the ACA subsidies, also known as Obamacare, became a sticking point during the government shutdown, which ended only after Republicans agreed to hold a vote on the subsidies during the second week of December.
But for Chatham County resident Megan Menesale, Congress’ vote, expected to take place on Thursday, could determine whether health coverage remains affordable or suddenly costs hundreds of dollars more each month.
According to a nonprofit health policy research institute, Menesale may be one of 1.4 million Georgia residents who could see their premiums double. And the Congressional Budget Office estimates that without an extension through 2026, premiums will increase by 4.3 percent, on average, for that year.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is expected to announce a “clean” three-year extension of the tax credits on Thursday. The proposal needs 60 votes to advance to a final simple-majority vote in the Senate, where Republicans hold 53 of the chamber’s 100 seats.
The extension faces scrutiny from Republican lawmakers, including Georgia’s District 1 Representative Buddy Carter.
“Democrats broke health care when they passed Obamacare,” Carter said in an emailed statement to the Savannah Morning News. “It made health care more expensive, so they had to subsidize it.”
“Instead of giving handouts to big insurance companies, which is what Jon Ossoff wants to continue to do, we should be empowering patients with affordable health care options that work best for them, not the government,” Carter stated.
An estimate by the Kaiser Family Foundation finds the change would push many people’s monthly out-of-pocket premiums up by more than double on average.
Additionally, Georgia’s Pathways to Coverage program, which was also set to expire at the end of the year, has been extended until the end of 2026 to iron out some of the kinks with implementing work requirements. However, it signed up far fewer Georgians in the coverage gap than predicted.
Deanna Williams, an insurance marketplace navigator with Georgians for a Healthy Future, said some of the people she works with are facing increases well beyond their budgets, forcing them to look elsewhere for health care.
In many cases, that means waiting until conditions are severe enough to warrant a visit to the emergency room or turning to free and low-cost clinics that cannot offer more advanced, specialized care.
“They’re going to go to the emergency rooms for care because typically, the emergency room can’t turn you away. And it’s going to also overwork the sliding scale clinics or even volunteer clinics,” Williams said. “They’re going to get an increase in the influx of people coming to receive services there because they no longer have health insurance.
The situation is even worse in rural parts of the state, where closures have been on the rise, and hospitals that remain open are having to cut back on services and departments to stay open.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis (D) is expected to appear before the Georgia Senate Special Committee on Investigations next week, according to the Capitol Beat News Service via the Augusta Chronicle.
The Georgia Supreme Court heard oral argument Tuesday in a dispute over the extent of the Georgia General Assembly’s authority to compel testimony, but the case may become irrelevant next week now that Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has agreed to testify.
Willis, who has been fighting efforts by a Senate committee that wants her to appear under subpoena, has agreed to talk with them on Dec. 17, her lawyer, former Gov. Roy Barnes, said at the hearing.
The dispute stems from Willis’ decision to pursue criminal charges against Donald Trump and his allies after they disputed the outcome of the 2020 election.
Republicans in the legislature issued two subpoenas, once last year and again this year.
A lower court ordered Willis to comply, but she appealed to the state Supreme Court, prompting Tuesday’s hearing.
Republicans say they want to explore what led Willis to prosecute Trump before he became president for a second time.
Democrats have derided the Senate’s work as a political stunt, an assertion that Barnes, a Democrat, repeated outside the courthouse.
He noted that several members of the Senate Special Committee on Investigations are running for statewide office.
“They’re putting out fundraising [that] says ‘we’re going to go after Fani Willis, and you need to send me $100.’ I mean, that’s ridiculous. It is in bad faith,” he said.
Five of the committee’s members are running for higher office. The Chairman, Sen. Bill Cowsert, R-Athens, wants to be Georgia attorney general.
Four others, also Republicans, are running for lieutenant governor, although one of them, Sen. John F. Kennedy, R-Macon, announced hours before the court hearing that he was resigning immediately to focus on his campaign.
Sen. Greg Dolezal, R-Cumming, serves on the committee and is also among those running for lieutenant governor. He attended the hearing and said afterward that the Supreme Court would not have had to listen to the lawyers argue about subpoena power if it were not for Willis’ “stonewalling” the committee.
“I think the question for her is how much of this is political,” Dolezal said. He said Willis benefitted politically from the media coverage.
“The case was unfounded from the very beginning,” he said. “It was rooted in its core in a scheme of prosecution for personal profit and we need to ensure that lady justice indeed keeps her blindfold on.”
Willis indicted Trump and 18 co-defendants.
Four took plea deals, but the rest were cleared last month when a special prosecutor dismissed the case after Willis was sidelined due to an ethical issue.
The courts removed her from the case because she had employed a romantic partner to help prosecute it.
Barnes downplayed that.
“If they disqualify every member of the General Assembly that has a romantic relationship with a secretary or a lobbyist,” he said, “you’re not going to be able to have a quorum next session.”
Lawmakers return to the Capitol to conduct another round of state business on Jan. 12, though some will be back next week to hear Willis testify.
From the Associated Press via WJBF:
Lawyers for Willis and the state Senate committee appeared Tuesday before the Georgia Supreme Court to contest whether a 2024 subpoena can still compel Willis to testify, even though that version of the Georgia General Assembly dissolved when a new one took office in January.
State senators in January 2024 created the committee to look into allegations of “various forms of misconduct” against Willis concerning her prosecution against Trump and others over efforts to overturn Trump’s 2020 election loss in Georgia. Even before Trump embarked on a retribution campaign against his enemies, Republicans on the Georgia committee were eager to bring Willis in for questioning.
The Senate committee issued a new subpoena this year after legislators passed a new law explicitly laying out their subpoena powers. Willis agreed to appear under the new subpoena.
But Senate Special Committee on Investigations Chairman Bill Cowsert, an Athens Republican, still wants the old subpoena recognized as valid, seeking a legal precedent about legislative powers.
“The attack is that the subpoena is void, and there is simply zero constitutional text to support that argument. And there is no reason this court should adopt it,” said Josh Belinfante, a lawyer for the committee.
Georgia Supreme Court justices seemed skeptical of that argument and reluctant to rule at all if Willis testifies on Dec. 17.
Instead, multiple justices suggested the subpoena died with the old legislature.
“When the General Assembly convenes, it is a new General Assembly. It is not a continuous process,” said Justice Charles Bethel, himself a former state senator.
Former Gov. Roy Barnes, representing Willis, also argued the old subpoena was defective because it wasn’t issued by both the House and Senate. The new law passed this year explicitly says one chamber may authorize subpoenas without the other chamber concurring.
Although Willis has agreed to appear, Barnes suggested more wrangling may come.
“You can’t just pick somebody out and say, we’re going to embarrass you, we’re going to try you, we’re going to harass you,” Barnes told justices. “So we’ll make an appropriate objection at the time. I’m not a potted plant.”
United States District Court Judge Victoria Marie Calvert (ND-GA) ordered the Georgia Department of Corrections to provide some level of gender-affirming care for inmates, according to the Associated Press via WALB.
U.S. District Judge Victoria Marie Calvert last week ruled that a new state law denying hormone therapy to inmates violated their protection against cruel and unusual punishment under the Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. She ordered the state to keep providing hormones to inmates who had been receiving therapy and to allow others medically diagnosed as needing hormone therapy to begin receiving treatment.
“The court finds that there is no genuine dispute of fact that gender dysphoria is a serious medical need,” Calvert wrote in her order. ”Plaintiffs, through their experts, have presented evidence that a blanket ban on hormone therapy constitutes grossly inadequate care for gender dysphoria and risks imminent injury.”
Calvert had already issued a preliminary order in September blocking the law before finalizing it.
The Georgia case was brought on behalf of transgender inmates by the Center for Constitutional Rights after Georgia enacted a law in May banning the use of state money to pay for hormone therapy, gender-transition surgery or other methods to change the appearance of sexual characteristics.
“It is not a health care issue that should be the responsibility of the taxpayers,” said Sen. Randy Robertson, a Cataula Republican who sponsored Senate Bill 185.
Lawyers for the state have already filed a notice of appeal to the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Attorney General Chris Carr, an elected Republican running for governor, has vowed to fight the lawsuit “all the way to the Supreme Court,” calling it ”absurd.”
The measure roiled the 2025 Georgia legislative session, with most House Democrats walking out of their chamber to boycott the final vote on the bill. But Gov. Brian Kemp signed it into law in May, and prison medical officials began making plans to gradually reduce and then end hormone therapy to inmates who were receiving it by October.
Georgia had begun providing hormone therapy in 2016 after a lawsuit by another inmate represented by the Center for Constitutional Rights. Prison officials counted more than 340 inmates who had been diagnosed with gender dysphoria in custody in mid-August, and said 107 inmates were receiving hormone therapy as of June 30.
The state presented studies to argue that denying or removing people from hormone therapy doesn’t meet the legal standard of “deliberate indifference,” but Calvert rejected their consideration. Calvert also rejected testimony from physicians in the prison system, saying they weren’t deciding that inmates had no medical need for hormone therapy but instead were just following the law’s directives. She said the counseling and monitoring promised by the state was inadequate.
“Defendants cannot deny medical care and then defeat an injunction by saying nothing bad has happened yet,” Calvert wrote.
Lawyers for the state argued Calvert was ignoring recent court decisions, including the Tennessee ban, as well as a recent 11th Circuit decision deciding that a Georgia county didn’t have to pay for a sheriff deputy’s gender-transition surgery.
“It is crystal clear the state legislatures have wide deference to enact laws regulating sex-change procedures like the cross-sex hormonal interventions at issue in this case,” lawyers for the state wrote in November.
The Glynn County Board of Elections has proposed new voting precinct lines, according to The Brunswick News.
During Tuesday’s board meeting, members learned there are lots of issues that can be resolved by drawing new district boundaries, including the reduction of driving and walking time to polling places.
There will be fewer polling places if the new boundaries are approved, in part, because of the growing trend for early voting in the Golden Isles, where a growing number of voters are choosing to use that option.
The proposed boundaries will be posted on the board of election’s website Thursday. People will also be able to comment online to make suggestions board members will consider.
Board member Sandy Dean said more than half of Glynn County’s voters early vote. In 2024, only 14% of the county’s registered voters showed up to the polling places on Election Day.
“We have one day where a small percentage of voters are voting,” she said.
Chris Channell, director of the county board of elections, said he believes the proposed changes will not affect voter turnout.
“People who want to vote will vote,” he said.
Channell said he’d like the new lines to be approved by the February meeting so they can go in effect for all of next year’s elections.
One challenge facing election officials is hiring polling place managers and assistant managers. Part of the problem is they are required to stay in the polling place from opening to closing, which can turn into a 16-hour day.
The other problem is poll managers and assistants must make a yearlong commitment to work during every election and primary.
Bryan County Commissioners voted to ask the General Assembly to repeal legislation creating an airport authority, according to the Savannah Morning News.
Commissioners passed a resolution stating they are giving notice to the airport authority that Bryan County will not commit any more funding in any capacity to support the airport. It goes on to say the fiscal analysis proposed close to 180 aircrafts would be located at the facility but just 34 aircrafts are currently registered in the county and that the report is not supported by “credible evidence”.
“Bryan County Board of Commissioners believes in listening to the needs of the community, and understands that projects of the scale contemplated in the Phase II and Fiscal Analysis should reflect the will and needs of the people, and be in furtherance of the public health, safety, and welfare of the community…based on the current economic conditions and needs of the community, the Bryan County Board of Commissioners has determined that, at this time, it does not support further expenditure of tax dollars, incentives, or the incurring of additional costs, in furtherance of the proposed Richmond Hill-Bryan County Airport,” reads the resolution.
County Chairman Carter Infinger said during the meeting that the county would not fund the airport.
“We have been talking about this for a while amongst ourselves and we have listened to the community on this,” said Infinger. “Not saying we are against the airport but saying we are not going to fund the airport. If someone wants to come in and fund it, that’s a different story.”
“We listened to the people, and we looked at the studies,” Commission Chairman Carter Infinger said. “We analyzed both studies, We looked at them, and we just want to suspend it at this time and maybe pick it up later.”
Chairman of the Airport Authority Board, Trip Addison, stated that Bryan County Commission does not have the ability to repeal the board because it was created by Georgia House Bill 763, making it a state operation.
Addison explained that the Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) is doing a southeast Georgia regional airport analysis, determining the need for the airport and where it would be located. They have until September to submit a plan of where things would be built and who would pay for it.
“We’re in a waiting period, I wish the county commission would have cooler minds versus following social media posts and wait for GDOT to finish their process and for them to determine whether the airport is needed or not,” said Addison.
The Richmond County Board of Education hosted a luncheon for local state legislators, according to WJBF.
On Dec. 9, members of the Board of Education and staff met for the annual Legislative Luncheon. It was an opportunity for school leaders to let lawmakers know what they need from the state level.
“The other thing that we talked about was the PSERS so that we can increase the funding for those teachers coming in and their retirement fund and the TRS fun,” said Shawanda Stovall, president of the Richmond County Board of Education. “Those are important for us to make sure that our teachers, our staff members, those who pay into their system, have a good system to retire from, that they are able to have more money contributed to that fund.”
She added, “We have found that a lot of retirees have to go back to work to be able to make ends meet. And we just want to make sure we’re taking care of our teachers.”
Superintendent Dr. Malinda Cobb said she hopes lawmakers focus on funding to ensure those resources are able to help students.
Perry City Council voted to impose a moratorium on new liquor licenses, according to 13WMAZ.
The city of Perry has voted to impose a six-month moratorium on issuing new liquor licenses, effectively hitting the pause button on any new liquor stores opening in the area.
The city council approved the moratorium last week as a precautionary measure, allowing city officials time to review their zoning laws and licensing policies.
Joe Duffy, Perry’s Community Development Director, emphasized that this is not a permanent ban but a thoughtful pause to ensure better regulations moving forward.
“We do need to make some more thoughtful zoning decisions about how liquor stores are handled. Up to this point, the city of Perry has just done the state minimum,” Duffy said.
He added that only one liquor store application is currently awaiting approval, indicating there isn’t an overwhelming surge of new businesses seeking licenses.
“It’s a precautionary measure, just to protect us from a potential influx of liquor stores,” said Duffy.
The Columbus Water Works Board of Commissioners voted to pass a rate increase for 2026, according to WTVM.
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