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Sofi Gratas, Georgia Public Broadcasting • May 2, 2024

Betts, widely considered one of the greatest rock guitarists ever, penned 'Ramblin' Man,' 'Jessica'

Caleb Slinkard, GTLN Editor • April 18, 2024

Nearly 20 churches to decorate sanctuary in an ecumenical event ‘for the greater glory of God’

Liz Fabian, Civic Journalism Senior Fellow • March 15, 2024

Liz Fabian, Civic Journalism Senior Fellow • April 29, 2024

CCJ Senior Fellow Liz Fabian keeps you in the know and informs you on what’s going on this week at The Macon Newsroom. We’ve got you covered...

Liz Fabian, Civic Journalism Senior Fellow • April 22, 2024

CCJ Senior Fellow Liz Fabian keeps you in the know and informs you on what’s going on this week at The Macon Newsroom. We’ve got you covered...

Liz Fabian, Civic Journalism Senior Fellow • April 1, 2024

CCJ Senior Fellow Liz Fabian keeps you in the know and informs you on what’s going on this week at The Macon Newsroom. We’ve got you covered...

Bill to create Ocmulgee Mounds National Park near Macon gets broad backing from Georgia delegation May 3, 2024
If you could travel back in time to visit the Macon Plateau of more than a thousand years ago, you’d see a community made up of ancestors of the Muscogee people living, meeting, growing food and burying their dead in earthen mounds, some of which are still around today. Soon, some of that land could […]
Ross Williams
Doctors plead with Congress to help improve U.S. maternal mortality rates May 2, 2024
WASHINGTON — Doctors on Thursday urged Congress to pass legislation addressing the disproportionately high rates of maternal mortality throughout the country and to lower barriers that have hindered people of color from becoming medical professionals. During a hearing in the U.S. Senate’s Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, a panel of five medical professionals detailed […]
Jennifer Shutt
U.S. Senate Dems Smith, Markey to push warehouse worker safety bill May 2, 2024
This story has been updated with a statement from an Amazon spokesperson. WASHINGTON — Two Democratic U.S. senators announced Thursday they plan to introduce a piece of legislation that would require large companies to disclose quota practices to workers and prevent those quotas from interfering with a worker’s health. “The Warehouse Worker Protection Act would […]
Ariana Figueroa