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A sign points the way to Golden Bough Bookstore.

Golden Bough Bookstore adapts to thrive as an independent bookstore

Phoebe Monsour, Center for Collaborative Journalism, Center for Collaborative Journalism
December 16, 2022
Health workers work during a COVID-19 vaccination event in Cochran, Ga., January 25, 2021. The pandemic strained an already stressed public health system, one that $100 million in federal grants aims to repair and strengthen.

Georgia’s public health system gets nearly $100 million for workforce and upgrades

Sofi Gratas, GPB News
December 7, 2022
Voters line up at the Ben Robertson Community Center in Kennesaw. The wait there on Monday morning lasted about 30 minutes, but other locations saw wait times of more than an hour.

Black voters, students home for the holiday help drive early turnout for Georgia Senate race

Ross Williams, Georgia Recorder
November 30, 2022
At a press conference in Atlanta’s Bessie Brahnam Park on Tuesday, U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock said local election boards should be given the option of deciding whether to open the polls on the Saturday after Thanksgiving in his Dec. 6 runoff election against Republican Heschel Walker. Georgia Democrats and Warnock are at odds with Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger over how to interpret a law that restricts polling around holidays.

ELECTION 2022 GOVERNMENT & POLITICS Warnock, Democrat allies sue to permit counties to conduct Saturday early voting in Senate runoff

Stanley Dunlap, Georgia Recorder
November 16, 2022
Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock, left, and Republican challenger Herschel Walker are likely headed for a December runoff.

Georgia U.S. Senate race headed for a Dec. 6 runoff

Ross Williams and Ariana Figueroa, The Georgia Recorder
November 9, 2022
Andrae Bailey, a consultant and advocate for people experiencing homelessness, explains the concept of "housing first" to nonprofit leaders in Macon recently.

On the cutting edge of solutions to homelessness in Georgia, it’s ‘housing first’

Grant Blankenship, GPB News
November 2, 2022
The debate over the narrow exceptions included in Georgia’s abortion ban were at the center of a two-day proceeding focused on whether the state’s six-week ban on most abortions runs afoul of the state constitutional right to privacy.

Court witnesses debate role of exceptions in Georgia abortion law; judge’s decision to come later

Jill Nolan, Georgia Recorder
October 26, 2022
According to the 2020 U.S. Census, Georgia’s Latino population surpassed 1 million, with close to 190,000 Hispanic residents living in Gwinnett County. The growing voting bloc gives greater influence on the outcome of elections like the Nov. 8 midterms.

New Georgia poll of likely Hispanic voters finds Abrams and Kemp knotted, Walker leading Warnock

Stanley Dunlap, Georgia Recorder
October 19, 2022
A new VA medical center is proposed for Gwinnett County to augment treatment options for metro Atlanta enrollees living in the northern suburbs. The Decatur medical center is a long drive for veterans on the northern end of Gwinnett. Courtesy U.S. Veterans Administration

Safety net hospitals in Georgia are at risk. Atlanta Medical Center is just the latest example

Sofi Gratas, GPB News
October 12, 2022
Mercer University President William Underwood, left, with Bibb Schools Superintendent Dan Sims, center, and Clayton Schools Superintendent Morcease Beasley, right, after the announcement of the new Mercer program to lure mid-career people into teaching.

A new degree program aims to draw mid-career jobseekers to teaching

Grant Blankenship, GPB News
October 5, 2022
eorgia Power’s rate case calls for 12% increases in electricity rates over the next two years, but the nuclear expansion at Plant Vogtle and reimbursement for fuel costs could add to the burden on ratepayers. The Georgia Public Service Commission is expected to vote on the 2022 rate case by Dec. 20

Opponents complain Georgia Power’s planned rate hike will squeeze household budgets

Stanley Dunlap, The Georgia Recorder
September 28, 2022
An expecting couple takes part in an abortion rights protest in Atlanta, May 14, 2022.

Yes, expecting parents in Georgia can now claim their embryo as a dependent

Ross Williams and Jill Nolin, The Georgia Recorder
September 21, 2022
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