State employees and teachers would receive a 2.5 percent cost-of-living pay raise under the $21.2 billion budget that passed unanimously in the Senate on Friday.
Casting traffic congestion as a family values issue, the House voted on Thursday to give local governments the option of levying a 1-cent sales tax hike to fund regional transportation projects.
Award-winning documentary filmmaker Rory Kennedy was at Brenau University's Gainesville campus Thursday night to meet with students, screen one of her films and give a lecture.