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The future of the New Savannah Bluff Lock and Dam was one of the repeat topics at last week’s State of Our Community event in North Augusta. “It’s one voice, everybody is speaking the same tune right now …” said North Augusta Mayor Bob Pettit during the event. The Lock and Dam has been a hot topic of discussion for the last year in the CSRA. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has been… Read more »

The House on Friday passed a $19 billion disaster aid bill that would deliver long-sought relief to farmers, victims of hurricanes and floods, and rebuild southern military bases, as Democrats try to dislodge the legislation from a Senate logjam over aid to hurricane-slammed Puerto Rico. The measure passed by a 257-150 vote over the opposition of most Republicans, who said it should also… Read more »

Republican Texas Rep. Chip Roy and 30 of his GOP colleagues wrote an open letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi insisting no spending measure she puts forth on the House floor will violate the Budget Control Act of 2011. “We write to respectfully request that you only bring forward spending measures which adhere to the budget caps put in place by the Budget Control Act (“BCA”) of 2011, as… Read more »

WASHINGTON — U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue wants to relocate the headquarters of two research divisions of his department out of Washington, and two Georgia communities — Athens and Griffin — are among the many competing for the prize. Leaders in dozens of states covet the headquarters of the Economic Research Service and the National Institute of Food and Agriculture for… Read more »

Columbia County, GA - A local middle school track team found that helping others stretches further than a finish line. they made a big difference for a local hero. A simple trip across a soccer field could have turned into a disaster for a veteran in a wheelchair.  That's when some young students with big hearts stepped in to help. Today, they were on the Evans Middle School… Read more »

Tom Robertson sees both technical and political obstacles to finding a workable solution to creating a fish passage in the Savannah River at New Savannah Bluff Lock and Dam. Speaking Monday to the Kiwanis Club of Augusta, Robertson of Cranston Engineering Group said there is a long and tangled history to finding a way to get migratory fish past the lock and dam, which opened in 1937. The… Read more »

U.S. Rep. Rick Allen called on House leadership Monday to consider a bill requiring health providers to provide medical care for a child born alive after an abortion procedure. Allen, R-Augusta, is one of 48 original co-sponsors of House Resolution 962, the “Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act.” Democrats have refused to consider the resolution 20 times, Allen’s office said in a… Read more »

Fort Gordon won’t see construction funds for a new cyber instructional and network center diverted to build a border wall, the area’s Republican congressman confirmed Monday. Two cyber-related construction projects at the Army base appeared on a list of hundreds of military appropriations at risk if President Donald Trump’s emergency declaration leads to those funds being diverted to… Read more »

ATLANTA — MEAG Power announced Friday it has closed on $414.7 million in additional loan guarantees from the U.S. Department of Energy to go toward the energy collective’s share of the construction of nuclear Units 3 and 4 at Plant Vogtle near Waynesboro. At the same time, Energy Secretary Rick Perry, Gov. Brian Kemp, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue and North America’s… Read more »

U.S. Rep. Rick Allen believes repurposing the Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility for a plutonium pit production mission is the right move. Asked Thursday morning by the Aiken Standard if he supported the prospective MOX-to-pits switch, the Georgia Republican said, "Absolutely." "Well obviously New Mexico can't handle what is required, OK, so it's got to go somewhere. And… Read more »