Some reports placed the numbers fleeing Mosul at 500,000 due to its seizure by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS), an Iraq and Syria-based Sunni Muslim extremist group. Mosul is the second largest city in Iraq and former home to a significant number of Assyrian Christians. ISIS has now reportedly vowed to take over Baghdad. [...]
Georgia’s net tax collections for the month of May totaled $1.39 billion for an increase of nearly $42.25 million, or 3.1 percent, compared to the month-ended May 2013. [...]
Gov. Nathan Deal today announced the creation of the Arts Learning Task Force to improve student achievement through the creation of robust arts learning environments. This task force will provide recommendations regarding the implementation of arts education into k-12 classrooms and conduct an examination of existing model arts education initiatives in Georgia and other states. [...]
Hanil E Hwa Interior Systems Georgia Inc. will expand its existing LaGrange facility, creating 80 jobs and investing $5.5 million over the next two years. [...]
U.S. Rep. Paul Broun, R-Ga., today released the following statement after offering more than $600 million in targeted spending cuts to the fiscal year 2015 Transportation, Housing and Urban Development appropriations bill. [...]
Cosmos, the latest attempt at materialist indoctrination of the public, recently finished its 13-week television run. A reboot of the 1980 miniseries co-written and presented by the late Carl Sagan, it was a spectacle of historical misinformation and blatant atheistic propaganda that even included Sagan's famous declaration, "The cosmos is all that is, or ever was, or ever will be." [...]
In a shocker, a Tea Party candidate has knocked off House Majority Leader Eric Cantor during Tuesday's Republican primary in Virginia. David Brat, an economics professor, picked off more than 55 percent of the vote in the win. [...]
Coming off a Sun Belt Championship, Georgia State head coach Ron Hunter welcomed the Panthers back to campus on Monday for the first day of practice and workouts. It coincides with the first day of summer classes at Georgia State. [...]