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Visitors to the Tubman African American Museum visit the gift shop Thursday. The Museum's Pan African Festival is this weekend in the parking lot of the Macon Coliseum.

There’s a Tyler Perry experience you can only have in Macon

Sonia Murray, GPB News
February 24, 2023
Coroner Leon Jones said Pio Nono Avenue is one of the deadliest roads in Georgia and likely the deadliest road in Macon.

Macon-Bibb County Pedestrian Safety Review Board responsibilities outsourced to private company

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
February 23, 2023
Diane Collins, left, her mother Bernice Smith, center and their friend Tony Fordham, on the porch of Collins' Davis Place apartment.

‘We can’t build fast enough.’ Macon Housing Authority is funding, upgrading affordable housing

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
February 22, 2023
Builder Shawn Stafford looks at a photo of 835 Forsyth St. before the facade collapsed late Monday night in downtown Macon.

Macon-Bibb County considers blanketing downtown with surveillance cameras

Grant Blankenship, GPB News
February 17, 2023
Imogene Patterson peers through the blinds behind the check-in desk at Economy Hotel on Pio Nono. She said she sometimes holds her breath watching some of the hotel guests trying to cross the five lanes of Pio Nono Avenue to get to the Circle K convenience store.

‘I hate to look.’ Deadly stretch of Pio Nono lacks crosswalk, stoplight as pedestrians keep dying

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
February 13, 2023
Buc-ee’s employee Joseph Hortman on Feb. 18, 2021 in Buc-ee's Warner Robins location. Hortman and a co-worker said it’s easy to tell when someone is a first time Bucc-ee’s visitor. They agreed first time visitors spend their time taking pictures and videos. Photo by Macee Palmer

Georgia may be best for business. But this 30-year-old policy is why some say it’s worst for workers

By Ellen Eldridge, GPB News
February 10, 2023
Peter Givens stands near the entrance of a pedestrian bridge over Interstate 75 that connects the west an east sides of the Pleasant Hill neighborhood. The neighborhood was severed in the '60s with the construction of Interstate 75.

GDOT promised better in Pleasant Hill after cutting it in half it with I-75. Has the state kept its word?

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
February 7, 2023
A Macon Transit Authority bus arrives at Terminal Station.

Macon’s ‘cheapest ride in town’ is about to get more expensive

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
February 2, 2023
Henry Young III, 64, knows well how deadly Pio Nono Avenue can be for people on foot. He says lowering the speed limit could help because, "they treat this road here just like a racetrack."

Macon’s deadliest streets: Two roommates die months apart crossing same busy road

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
January 31, 2023
Macon-Bibb County will hold three virtual public hearings to discuss maintaining the current millage rate which will add an additional $2.6 million to the county budget.

Macon-Bibb County flies the Muscogee Nation flag above the city

Grant Blankenship, Georgia Public Broadcasting
January 23, 2023
A Bibb County sheriff deputy's car with blue lights activated near a pedestrian crosswalk on Jeffersonville Road in Macon.

Macon’s roads are becoming deadlier for pedestrians, but few hit-and-runs are solved

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
January 17, 2023
The Mentors Project of Bibb County's Executive Director June O'Neal takes blankets to a family of 8 living in a south Macon motel room in late 2022. O'Neal says her program needs new mentors to fulfill its core goals.

More mentors needed in Bibb County where ‘the streets call the children all the time’

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
January 10, 2023
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