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The newly renovated Cotton Avenue Plaza is an example of one project birthed out of the 2015 Macon Action Plan, which is undergoing its second revision.

Want to change Macon? Leaders want your input on the future

Liz Fabian, Civic Journalism Senior Fellow
August 22, 2023
Superintendent Dan Sims at a Bibb County Board of Education meeting on Aug. 18. 2023.

Bibb Schools targets truancy in aim to improve academics

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
August 21, 2023
Mitzi Matthews makes her case for fence variances as her Kay Drive neighbors look on from the front row during the Aug. 14 P&Z meeting. Matthews did not apply for a permit and did not follow P&Zs regulations in erecting the fence in response to neighbors alleged actions.

P&Z: Consultant to update historic district rules, Ace Hardware for downtown and fence dispute

Liz Fabian, Civic Journalism Senior Fellow
August 18, 2023
Rollback saves Macon-Bibb taxpayers $11M and Commission denies M&M Grocerys alcohol license

Rollback saves Macon-Bibb taxpayers $11M and Commission denies M&M Grocery’s alcohol license

Liz Fabian, Civic Journalism Senior Fellow
August 16, 2023
Cirrus Academy governing board members Latrell Taylor, left, and Shirlynn Kelly attended the Aug. 8, 2023, meeting in the schools cafenasium, a space that doubles as a gym and cafeteria. The other half of the four-member board attended via Zoom.

Public input to be sought, but budget already adopted for Cirrus Academy

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
August 15, 2023
The Central City Commons development team is in final negotiations with a major hotelier for a new six-story hotel on Poplar Street between First and Second streets.

$130 million project, expanded Business Improvement District to boost downtown

Liz Fabian, Civic Journalism Senior Fellow
August 14, 2023
Cirrus Academy Superintendent Gail Fowler spoke at a news conference in front of the school on Pio Nono Avenue on Aug. 8, 2023. Stakeholders asked the governing board to resign hours before the board met behind closed doors to discuss personnel matters.

Cirrus Academy board and administrators at odds, future of charter school in jeopardy

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
August 10, 2023
Georgia Commissioner of Labor Bruce Thompson

Audit finds more than $105M in unremitted funds at state labor department

Dave Williams, Capitol Beat News Service
August 10, 2023
Piedmont Macon hospital

Macon hospitals want to stop paying property taxes. County board says no.

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
August 9, 2023
Theft allegations concerning work at Allied Industrial Park surfaced shortly after former Macon-Bibb County Industrial Authority Chairman Cliffard Whitby resigned in 2017.

Alleged contractor corruption case ‘open and active’ at Ga. Attorney General’s Office

Liz Fabian, Civic Journalism Senior Fellow
August 8, 2023
A controversial bill passed by Georgia Republican lawmakers in March creates a district attorneys oversight commission that will discipline local prosecutors accused of misconduct.

Georgia DAs challenge new law allowing state oversight of their prosecution choices

Stanley Dunlap, Georgia Recorder
August 7, 2023
Two bulldozers operating in front of a major interstate expansion project

GDOT: ‘No final completion date’ for I-16/I-75 interchange expansion

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
August 4, 2023
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