Tuesday August 5th, 2025 12:23PM

Ken Stanford

Contributing Editor
Ken  Stanford
Apr. 15 meeting to focus on plans for new S. Hall park
Hall County Parks and Leisure Services will hold a Public Information Meeting on the proposed Cherokee Bluffs Park on April 15.
8:47AM ( 12 years ago )
Some states resisting overhaul of immigration policy for youths
President Barack Obama's decision last year to allow young people living in the U.S. illegally to stay and work marked the biggest shift in immigration policy in decades, hailed as a landmark step toward the American dream for a generation of immigrants.
8:41AM ( 12 years ago )
Meeting to address Gainesville's at-large voting process
The Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials (GALEO) will host a meeting in Gainesville next week addressing the city's at-large voting process.
7:37AM ( 12 years ago )
Another national accolade for NGMC
Northeast Georgia Medical Center (NGMC) has been named to the Becker
4:30PM ( 12 years ago )
Obama Social Security cut, tax hike proposal gets 'cool' reception
President Barack Obama's proposed budget will call for reductions in the growth of Social Security and other benefit programs while still insisting on more taxes from the wealthy in a renewed attempt to strike a broad deficit-cutting deal with Republicans.
4:17PM ( 12 years ago )
FAA delays closing of airport control towers
The closings of control towers at 149 small airports, due to begin this weekend because of government-wide spending cuts, are being delayed until mid-June, federal regulators announced Friday.
4:04PM ( 12 years ago )
NKorea warns embassies it can't guarantee safety
North Korea has warned diplomats in its capital of Pyongyang that it can't guarantee the safety of embassies in the event of a conflict and suggested they may want to evacuate their staff, Russia's top diplomat said Friday.
1:17PM ( 12 years ago )
NY judge makes morning-after pill available to all
In a scathing rebuke of the Obama administration, a federal judge ruled Friday that age restrictions on over-the-counter sales of the morning-after pill are "arbitrary, capricious and unreasonable" and must end within 30 days.
1:14PM ( 12 years ago )
Gang member arrested in Colo. corrections killing
One of two members of a white supremacist gang linked to the killing of Colorado's prisons chief has been arrested just miles from where the state official was shot to death answering the door to his home.
1:12PM ( 12 years ago )
GDOT spends $546K on winter weather events in NE Ga.
While it pales in comparison to the totals for Fiscal Year 2011, the number of man-hours, materials and money expended by the state Department of Transportation on winter weather events in northeast Georgia this winter far exceeds those of last winter.
9:30AM ( 12 years ago )