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#1. Delta Air Lines announced this week it will soon offer passengers what free feature during flights?
It’s Wi-Fi.
Delta said Thursday that by the end of the year, it will outfit more than 700 planes with high-speed, satellite-based broadband service and plans to expand free Wi-Fi to international and Delta Connection flights by the end of 2024.
#2. Gov. Brian Kemp and lawmakers signaled they are ready to spend some of Georgia's $6.6 billion in surplus money on what?
Kemp wants to dig into $3 billion of the surplus for three big items.
- Replacing revenue Georgia hasn’t collected on gasoline and diesel taxes since March.
- Another round of state income tax rebates like the $1.1 billion in payments issued last year.
- And reviving a property tax rebate abolished in 2009.
#3. True or False: Georgia may not see expanded access to abortion pills despite this week's FDA rule change.
It’s true.
“We applaud the FDA’s decision to allow local pharmacies to fulfill prescriptions for mifepristone,” said Allison Coffman, Director of the Amplify Georgia Collaborative. “Unfortunately, due to Georgia’s H.B. 481 abortion ban, people seeking abortion must receive an ultrasound to check for fetal cardiac activity. This means that a trip to a medical office will still be necessary prior to receiving the pills.”
#4. Atlanta City Council President Doug Shipman backtracked this week on a committee chair appointment after two councilmembers did what?
It’s paid for an ad in the AJC.
Shipman announced Tuesday he would keep Councilmember Marci Collier Overstreet as chair of the zoning committee instead of Councilmember Matt Westmoreland. This was after Overstreet and Councilmember Andrea Boone purchased an ad in AJC’s Sunday paper criticizing Shipman for denying all Black women on the council a chance to chair committees.
#5. Some Georgia lawmakers are confident that this legislative session will lead to the legalization of what?
It’s sports betting.
State Rep. Ron Stephens (R-Savannah) said he has never been more confident the Legislature will vote in the session that begins in January to have a constitutional amendment on the ballot in 2024 for sports gambling.
#6. True or False: Gov. Brian Kemp announced this week that he would suspend the tax on gasoline again.
It’s false.
Kemp announced back in December that the suspension on gas taxes would end on Tuesday, Jan. 10.
State motor fuel taxes are also going up in 2023 by two cents a gallon over last year’s rate for unleaded and diesel. That comes out to 31 cents a gallon for unleaded and 35 cents a gallon for diesel.
