Georgia's Department of Agriculture is intensifying its fire ant eradication program in an effort to stay ahead of the fast-spreading pest.

A controversy arose in January 2009 over a Georgian Public Broadcaster ( GPB ) television program, Sakartvelos Didi Ateuli ( საქართველოს დიდი ათეული ; " Best Georgians " or " Great Ten Georgians ") — a show which invited viewers to pick Georgia's top historical personages through polling by telephone, text messaging, and the Internet.

The University has seen its academic reputation rise markedly since Georgia's HOPE Scholarship program was started in 1993.

Georgia's collaborative digitization program, the Digital Library of Georgia, presents a seamless virtual library on the state's history and life, including more than a hundred digital collections from 60 institutions and 100 agencies of government.

The Bulldogs, on the other hand, still had many veteran players thanks to the draft deferments of the players who were enrolled in the University of Georgia's ROTC program, and brought a 7 – 0 record and No. 1 ranking to Jacksonville.

The next year, WNGC became north Georgia's first full-time country music station, also one of the first FM stations in the nation to program country music full-time.

The following year, WNGC became North Georgia's first full-time country music station, also one of the first in the nation to program country music full-time.

A 2002 survey by the state of Georgia's subsidized healthcare system, PeachCare, found that Walmart was the largest private employer of parents of children enrolled in its program ; one quarter of the employees of Georgia Walmarts qualified to enroll their children in the federal subsidized healthcare system Medicaid.

* 2007, Fort Hawkins was featured in Georgia's Archeology Month program, capped by a weekend celebration at the fort.

The program implemented President Bush's decision to respond to the Government of Georgia's request for assistance to enhance its counter-terrorism capabilities and addressed the situation in the Pankisi Gorge.

July 11, 1995: President Clinton models his America's Hope program, a tax credit for the cost of two year of education beyond high school, after the success of Georgia's HOPE Program.

* JGG Jobs for Georgia's Graduates is a school-to-work transition program for seniors.

Among the Junior Miss participants in this decade who would become well known were Georgia's Julie Moran, who would anchor the syndicated TV program " Entertainment Tonight " and 1986 Junior Miss Debra Messing of Rhode Island, whose acting career led to earning one of the leading roles in the sitcom " Will & Grace ".

For instance, California's Freeway Service Patrol program consists of privately owned and operated wreckers that have contracts with the state, whereas Georgia's HERO program is run directly by the Georgia Department of Transportation: its vehicles are state property and its operators state employees.

Rising juniors and seniors in Georgia's public and private high schools may be nominated for the free program by their teachers.

* Caroline Miller, author who was Georgia's first Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist ; she received the award for Lamb in his Bosom in 1934.

He received a doctorate in economics from the University of Georgia's Terry College of Business in 1967

Georgia's men's soccer team received a bid to play in the NIRSA Club National Championship for the first time in 2007.

Georgia's men's lacrosse team has won the South Eastern Lacrosse Conference three times, in 1998, 2007, and 2008, and received an automatic bid to the MCLA national tournament ; while the women's team earned an at-large bid to the WDIA National Tournament in 2007.

In 2002, he received the State Bar of Georgia's Distinguished Service Award, and the Atlanta Bar Association, in 2007, honored him with their Leadership Award.

With the spread of the population, it was felt that Georgia's capital needed to move as well.

Georgia's Yazoo land scandal convinced President George Washington that the federal government needed to control Indian affairs rather than allowing the states to make treaties.

Abkhazia and South Ossetia have seceded unilaterally from Georgia and would be given autonomous status if Georgia's territorial integrity were restored.

This originally was the Georgia and North Carolina border all the way back to the Mississippi River, until Tennessee was divided from North Carolina, and the Yazoo companies induced the legislature of Georgia to pass an act, approved by the governor in 1795, to sell the greater part of Georgia's territory presently comprising Alabama and Mississippi.

The nickname " Thrashers ", after Georgia's state bird, the brown thrasher, was selected from a fan poll.

Georgia's former defense minister from 2006 to 2008, Davit Kezerashvili, had previously lived in Israel.

Worth County was created from Dooly and Irwin counties on December 20, 1853, by an act of the Georgia General Assembly, becoming Georgia's 106th county.

Ware County, Georgia's 60th county, was created on December 15, 1824, by an act of the Georgia General Assembly from land that was originally part of Appling County.

The 2010 U. S. Census reports the population at 12, 010, with a growth rate of 25. 3 % from 2000 to 2010, while surpassing Georgia's change of 18. 3 %., making it one of Georgia's fastest growing counties.

As of the 2010 census, the county's population swelled to 203, 922, up 70. 9 % from the previous census and becoming Georgia's 8th most populous county and the 10th fastest growing county in the nation.

In March 2006, the prison took in 350 women prisoners from Georgia's overflowing jail system to start this process.

Georgia's 94th county was named for William Washington Gordon ( 1796 – 1842 ), the first Georgian to graduate from West Point and first president of the Central of Georgia Railroad ( See a monument to William Gordon in Savannah, Georgia ).

As the Georgia State Constitution forbids banishment beyond the borders of the state, officials instead ban the offender from 158 of Georgia's 159 counties, with Echols remaining as their only option.

Well-known figures from Crawford County include Jefferson Franklin Long, Georgia's first African American congressional representative and the first African American to speak from the floor of the U. S. House of Representatives.

In 1868, after the Civil War ( 1861 – 65 ), Georgia's capital was moved from Milledgeville to its present location in Atlanta.

Many of Georgia's most notable residents have come from Milledgeville.

Apart from shrimping, the area is also the center of Georgia's crab and oyster industries.

* U. S. Route 82 runs through Greenwood on its way from the White Sands of New Mexico ( east of Las Cruces ) east to Georgia's Atlantic coast ( Brunswick, Georgia ).

Some rock groups from the South, such as Georgia's R. E. M., The B-52's, Widespread Panic, and Black Crowes, Florida's Sister Hazel, Blind Melon's Mississippian lead guitarist, and Texas's Stevie Ray Vaughan, The Fabulous Thunderbirds and Joe Ely incorporated Southern musical and lyrical themes without explicitly allying with any Southern rock movement.

He represented Georgia's 7th congressional district as a Republican from 1995 to 2003.

" Hall then walks over to the tally board and changes Georgia's vote from " Nay " to " Yea.

Georgia's former US Senator Sam Nunn ( now retired ), Indiana US Senator Dan Coats, former Florida US Senator Connie Mack, and former Georgia governor George Busbee ( now deceased ) also joined the firm after their retirement from public office.

The office was first introduced by the Supreme Council of the Republic of Georgia on April 14, 1991, 5 days after Georgia's declaration of independence from the Soviet Union.