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City and county awarded grants for energy efficiency projects

ATLANTA – The City of Moultrie and Colquitt County have been awarded grant money from the Bipartisan Infrastructure ... Read more

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State PSC approves Georgia Power rate rollback

ATLANTA – State energy regulators authorized Georgia Power Wednesday to reduce customer rates by $122 million to reflect ... Read more

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Warnock introduces stopgap Medicaid expansion bill

ATLANTA – Georgians with incomes too high to qualify for Medicaid but not enough to afford private health ... Read more

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Artificial intelligence to affect broad range of public services

ATLANTA – Georgia lawmakers may or may not develop legislation this summer and fall to establish state standards ... Read more

Business

U.S. Senate Republicans outline their farm bill framework

WASHINGTON — Republicans on the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry on Tuesday released their framework ... Read more

Columns

TONI SAYS: Enrolling in Medicare over 65 with health issues

Hello Toni: I am retiring on January 1 and am beginning to search for the right Medicare option ... Read more

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SPECIAL REPORT: U.S. seniors largely unprepared

The number of Americans older than 65 keeps rising – and will for decades to come. While experts ... Read more

Columns

TONI SAYS: Does Medicare Part D cover prescriptions for clinical trials?

Dear Toni: I turn 65 in September, am covered under my wife’s employer’s health insurance and fighting liver ... Read more

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SPECIAL REPORT: U.S. seniors largely unprepared

The number of Americans older than 65 keeps rising – and will for decades to come. Read more

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Medicaid the primary safety net

When her elderly mother's cognitive impairment from dementia worsened in the late 1990s, Sebra Barcuis knew she needed ... Read more