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How well does local government do in following Georgia's open record laws?

Murphy Center students check open records compliance

Debbie Blankenship, Murphy Center
October 22, 2024
Carrie Proffitt protests in 2023 across from the Georgia Governor's Mansion with photos of her son who took his own life in a Georgia Department of Corrections prison.

The federal Department of Justice: ‘deliberate indifference’ to violence in Georgia prisons

Grant Blankenship, Georgia Public Broadcasting
October 2, 2024
Pleasant Hill residents and an architectural rendering of an apartment block planned for the lot with the playground behind them after the announcement of Pleasant Hill Landing Sept. 19, 2024.

Pleasant Hill to get new affordable housing

Grant Blankenship, Georgia Public Broadcasting
September 20, 2024
The grave of Blanche Haywood. Until recent work by preservationists in the historically African American Oak Ridge Cemetery, the grave of the woman born in the 1840s was completely hidden by the understory.

Unerasing the history of Macon’s Oak Ridge African American cemetery

Grant Blankenship, Georgia Public Broadcasting
August 24, 2024
Volunteers rip out English ivy by hand in a patch of urban forest in Macon known to support the federally endangered fringed campion plant on July 18, 2024. The workday was part of a multi-agency effort to protect the plant only found in a few dozen sites in Georgia and Florida.

In Macon, volunteers fight escaped garden plants to save an endangered native

Grant Blankenship, Georgia Public Broadcasting
August 15, 2024
Jan Smith hugs members of her legal team after the final hearing before Georgia's Public Service Commission on the issue of whether or not a local railroad can use eminent domain to take rural land which has been in her husband's family since the 1920s.

Sparta residents and the railroad they oppose get a final hearing

Grant Blankenship, Georgia Public Broadcasting
August 8, 2024
Georgia secretary of state office technician Chris Bellew (left) runs a test on Bibb County elections systems while Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (right) talks to a reporter Tuesday, July 30, 2024.

Bibb County and others get a clean bill of voting machine health from the state

Grant Blankenship, Georgia Public Broadcasting
July 31, 2024
Christabelle Kubuye has a conversation with an AI. She uses what sheÕs learned so far at camp to prompt it effectively.

A Macon day camp introduces kids to the ethics of AI

Taleen Hanna, Georgia Public Broadcasting
July 2, 2024
Classmates watch as Mercer University student Grace Gasaway fits a functional near-infrared spectroscopy cap onto student Parth Patel's head. Unlike the stillness required for an MRI machine, researchers can map brain activity using fNIRS while participants are moving around, making it ideal to use on young kids.

Scientists have cutting edge technology to scan kids’ brains. But it wasn’t built for all heads

Sofi Gratas, Georgia Public Broadcasting
July 1, 2024
Attorneys and representatives for correctional health care provider, Wellpath, and for the state attended a hearing over the lawsuit at the Fulton County Superior Court on Monday, June 24, 2024. The new health care provider for Georgia prisons will start July 1.

Georgia prisons will soon have a new healthcare provider after contract was brought into question

Sofi Gratas, Georgia Public Broadcasting
June 28, 2024
Kids at the Boys and Girls Club on Anthony Road in Macon get their second helpings of fresh fruit and vegetables through the Happy Helpings summer food program recently.

Hungry Georgia kids now have another way to find meals this summer

Grant Blankenship, Georgia Public Broadcasting
June 27, 2024
Sister Theresa Sullivan, right, speaks during a ceremony May 20, 2024, marking the near-completion of Macon's Central City Apartments.

New Macon apartments to offer affordability and medical respite for the unhoused

Grant Blankenship, Georgia Public Broadcasting
May 22, 2024
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