Georgia on Tuesday June 30, 2009

GA: Ga. DOT awards 22 stimulus program contracts
By The Associated Press, The Augusta Chronicle
Georgia's Department of Transportation says it has awarded 22 more projects worth $56.7 million under the federal stimulus program.
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GA: Former governor to swear in new chief justice
By The Associated Press, The Augusta Chronicle
Former Gov. Zell Miller, who appointed Carol W. Hunstein to Georgia's Supreme Court, will swear her in as chief justice.
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Furloughs cut into state services
By Pauline Vu, Stateline.org Staff Writer
With states facing a $121 billion shortfall in the next fiscal year, a growing number of them have turned to squeezing their workforce for savings, and effects both great and small will be felt.
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GA: At chicken plant, a recession battle
By Lauren Etter, The Wall Street Journal
DOUGLAS, Ga. -- This small town was devastated in February when its largest employer, Pilgrim's Pride Corp., said it would close a chicken-processing plant as part of the company's bankruptcy filing.
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US: EPA lists sites where coal ash may pose threat
By The Associated Press, The Wall Street Journal
WASHINGTON -- The Environmental Protection Agency on Monday made public a list of 26 communities in 10 states where residents are potentially threatened by coal ash storage ponds similar to one that flooded a neighborhood in Tennessee last year.
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US: Ruling adds teeth to state oversight of banks
By Neil Irwin, The Washington Post
For years, state governments have had little power to enforce consumer-protection and lending rules at the country's biggest banks. No more.
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US: Obama steers health debate out of capital
By Sheryl Gay Stolberg, The New York Times
WASHINGTON — With Democrats deeply divided over health legislation, President Obama is trying to enlist the nation's governors and his own army of grass-roots supporters in a bid to increase pressure on lawmakers without getting himself mired in the messy battle playing out on Capitol Hill.
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US: A green way to dump low-tech electronics
By Leslie Kaufman, The New York Times
Since 2004, 18 states and New York City have approved laws that make manufacturers responsible for recycling electronics, and similar statutes were introduced in 13 other states this year.
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