Unless you're a Democrat, of course. Just filed this on the main site: ATLANTA — A bill that would do away with annual property taxes on cars, which has been characterized as a boon for disgruntled taxpayers, would actually raise hundreds of millions more each year for the state and local governme...

By Josh Hafenbrack, Tallahassee Bureau TALLAHASSEE -- Broward Sen. Nan Rich's bill to make bestiality a crime is moving toward becoming law, picking up a unanimous committee approval today. Florida is among 16 states that don’t outlaw the act of......

It is with sadness that I must announce: Lucid Idiocy's man crush on Speaker of the House Glenn Richardson is over. It's not me, it's him. Mr. Speaker - It's hard for me to write this. I know we haven't been together long, but we were so good together. I mean, you said so many awesome ridiculous thi...

How is it that, as Georgia Power's nuclear plant bill flies through the legislative process like a cannonball through Popsicle stick walls, I'm still learning things that make both eyebrows raise? Makes you wonder what we'll learn after this thing becomes law. From Margaret Newkirk at The AJC: As Ge...

The average age of a Georgia DOT board member is 62.4 years old. That's 811 years of life experience among 13 members. The median age is 67. Five board members are younger than 60. Two members, Brandon Beach and Dana Lemon, are younger than 50. Lemon is the youngest member, at 45. She is also the on...

You can read a short version of the story here: ATLANTA — With federal stimulus money providing some budgetary breathing room, Gov. Sonny Perdue announced a deal with House and Senate leaders Tuesday to fund a property tax break for homeowners this year, avoiding a statewide round of re-billings.-...

UPDATE: As I'm sure the careful Bibb County readers have already noticed, yes, this would hit the city of Macon, Bibb County Commission and Bibb County Board of Education budgets extremely hard. That's because we haven't managed to get our act together long enough to pass a new tax digest since 2001...

Jim Galloway over at The AJC has been on top of Gov. Perdue's push to change the way the Georgia Department of Transportation operates. No legislation has been filed or confirmed by the governor's office, but the theory is that the state DOT Board would not longer be elected by House and Senate memb...

I am actually looking forward to the 2009 legislative session. I'm tired of the same story over and over again. At least this will bring new idiocy, guaranteed. To that end, Lucid Idiocy is proposing legislation this year. Now, you might be thinking: "Isn't it kind of unheard of for a newspaper repo...

ATHENS — Gov. Sonny Perdue on Monday announced an "aggressive" state stimulus package of new infrastructure projects to help Georgia out of its economic malaise. Perdue didn't discuss figures or specific projects, which will come out as his administration finishes a budget that the governor said t...