Athens for Everyone held their 3rd Annual Membership Meeting Monday night, February 27, at the Morton Theater in downtown Athens. Around 200 members elected the new board of fifteen directors and selected platform planks from dozens of proposals submitted by the membership over the past months. Awards were also given […]
Monthly Archives: February 2017
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The first “religious freedom” bill this year in Georgia has arrived at the legislature. This bill, SB 233, is brief, proposing to apply the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) of 1993 to the state of Georgia. This law prohibits the government from interfering with a person’s exercise of religion even […]
Update: 2/25: We’ve heard that HB 51’s language is currently undergoing significant changes and we review those at the bottom of the page. This is an on-going story and we will keep you informed. Representative Earl Ehrhart has proposed an amendment that would curtail the rights and safety of sexual […]
At times, I’ve been frustrated with our government, but until this year I never wrote letters or called my reps; I never even thought about visiting the Senate. I know I am not alone. But in February I helped hand-deliver 707 letters to the Atlanta offices of our US senators, […]