Bill Barrow

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FILE - In this May 16, 2012 file photo, Florida Gov. Rick Scott speaks in Fort Lauderdale. Florida Gov. Rick Scott, long opposed President Barack Obama's remake of the health insurance market. After President Obama won re-election, the Republican governor softened his tone. He said he wanted to "have a conversation" with the administration about implementing the 2010 law. (AP Photo/J Pat Carter, File)

GOP governors walk balance beam on health law

Bill Barrow · December 30, 2012 6:24 pm

FILE - In this May 16, 2012 file photo, Florida Gov. Rick Scott speaks in Fort Lauderdale. Florida Gov. Rick Scott, long opposed President Barack Obama's remake of the health insurance market. After President Obama won re-election, the Republican governor softened his tone. He said he wanted to "have a conversation" with the administration about implementing the 2010 law. (AP Photo/J Pat Carter, File)

GOP governors walk balance beam on health law

Bill Barrow · December 30, 2012 5:47 pm

FILE - This Dec. 20, 2012 file photo shows New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie listens to a question in Belmar, N.J. Florida Gov. Rick Scott, who made a fortune as a health care executive, long opposed President Barack Obama's remake of the health insurance market. After the Democratic president won re-election, the Republican governor softened his tone. In New Jersey, Gov. Chris Christie also has walked a careful line. Both Republican governors face re-election in states that Obama won twice, Christie in 2013 and Scott in 2014. (AP Photo/Mel Evans, File)

GOP governors walk balance beam on health law

Bill Barrow · December 30, 2012 5:00 am

Kerin Sovern, center, who is from Sandy Hook, Connecticut, but now lives in San Diego, attends a candlelight vigil honoring victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut at Balboa Park Thursday Dec. 20, 2012 with her parents Maureen and Michael Sovern who are visiting her from Sandy Hook. (AP Photo/U-T San Diego, Bill Wechter

Gun control debate heating up in statehouses

Bill Barrow · December 21, 2012 9:04 pm

Think tank: Ga. workers lose 20 years of progress

Bill Barrow · November 20, 2012 9:36 pm

Out of reach today, minorities a key to GOP future

Bill Barrow · November 2, 2012 8:32 am

GA: Not a battleground, but it still matters

Bill Barrow · October 25, 2012 10:23 pm

Jimmy Carter: I’m a ‘traveling salesman’

Bill Barrow · October 19, 2012 12:05 am

In this undated photo provided by Chick-fil-A shows company president Dan Cathy. It is not entirely clear wether Chick-fil-a has definitely ended its financial support for groups that oppose same-sex unions. But a statement issued by the company Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2012, just months after its chief spoke against gay marriage, indicates it now plans to keep its distance from the more controversial views held by its Southern Baptist owners. (AP Photo/Chick-fil-A, Stanley Leary )

Chick-fil-A makes another statement on controversy

Bill Barrow · September 20, 2012 4:00 am

Panel calls for more technology in Georgia schools

Bill Barrow · September 19, 2012 11:10 pm

Republican vice presidential candidate Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., gives a thumbs-up at a rally Sunday, August 12, 2012, in Mooresville, N.C., at the NASCAR Technical Institute. (AP Photo/Jason E. Miczek)

Tea party evolves, achieves state policy victories

Bill Barrow · August 12, 2012 4:00 am