The Georgia General Assembly reached Crossover Day on Friday, March 6. This self-imposed deadline determines which bills remain viable for the 2026 session. The Capitol saw a flurry of activity as lawmakers moved on high-stakes tax and election policy.
Standing on the corner of Auburn Avenue in Atlanta, in the Sweet Auburn district that birthed the Civil Rights Movement — where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was born and now is home to rows of thriving Black-owned businesses — you can almost hear the echoes of an earlier era.
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President Trump’s State of the Union was less a policy checklist than a directional signal. The themes were clear: border security, industrial capacity, domestic energy production, and technological dominance. For the South, that alignment is not rhetorical—it’s geographic.
The Georgia General Assembly entered a frantic "sprint" last week as lawmakers race toward Crossover Day, Friday March 6 of this week. This is the drop-dead deadline for a bill to pass its chamber of origin to remain viable this session.
President Donald Trump made his first return to Georgia since reclaiming the White House, visiting a steel facility in Rome on Thursday to focus on his economic agenda.
In the past year, navigating the second Trump administration has proved a tall order for government officials across the country. Yet nowhere has that divide been felt greater than in medium- to large-sized cities, often led by Democrats, and located in red states.
With Crossover Day (March 6) looming, the focus has shifted from high-level "State of the State" rhetoric to the granular mechanics of tax cuts, housing regs, and tech oversight.
Georgia’s budget writers are grappling with a high-class problem—how to deploy a nearly $15 billion surplus without locking the state into long-term obligations it may later regret.
Georgia’s budget writers are grappling with a high-class problem—how to deploy a nearly $15 billion surplus without locking the state into long-term obligations it may later regret.