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Danielle Jones is the McKinney-Vento liaison for the Bibb County School District where she and a small staff work within the limits of the law to provide stability for homeless students.

Housing aid doesn’t always reach homeless youth. Here’s how educators aim to help

February 1, 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

January 23, 2023
Wesley Reimer feeds his son Marshall from a bottle in their Macon home. Reimer partially blames the current baby formula shortage on panicked shoppers stockpiling formula and on profiteers selling formula online.

[Photo] The national baby formula shortage means struggle for many Georgia families

May 26, 2022
Georgia Department of Corrections Commissioner Timothy C. Ward, second from right, after the March meeting of the Board of Corrections in Forsyth.

[Photo] Federal investigators are asking the court to force transparency on Georgia prisons

April 8, 2022
Dozens of vans, trucks, cars and buses parked at Hawthorne and Third streets parked in a county-owned lot downtown have government-issued tags. The vehicles are not owned by the county or any agency of the county. They belong to a private nonprofit called the Macon-Bibb County Economic Opportunity Council Inc.

[Photo] Public money, private business: oversight limited at Macon-Bibb Economic Opportunity Council

February 18, 2022
Tattnall Square Academy wrestler Grady Tisdale practices at Macon’s Rush Mixed Martial Arts gym. The only member of his high school wrestling team, Tisdale is one of the best wrestlers in Georgia at his weight class.

[Photo] A team of one: Tattnall’s only wrestler Grady Tisdale has his eye on a state title

February 14, 2022
Georgia Department of Corrections cadets and trainers before the 2010 ribbon cutting for the departments training facility and offices in Forsyth. A labor strike of the incarcerated would come about month later. GDC lost over 2,000 correctional officers in the following year.

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Kareemah Hanifa during her September testimony to a committee of Georgia legislators concerned with violence in the states prisons. Hanifa began serving a life sentence when she was a teenager.

[Photo] Why the investigation into Georgia prisons matters

November 19, 2021
Nerissa Wrights son, Dontavis Mintz, died for reasons she still doesnt know in Ware State Prison near Waycross. The U.S. Department of Justice is investigating the Georgia Department of Corrections largely because of such deaths.

A mother’s son died in Georgia prison. The Department of Justice wonders if understaffing is why

November 19, 2021
The trash was placed at the curb on Laura Ann Place off of Forest Hill Road earlier this month.

What’s up with the Landfill and my trash?

June 29, 2021
Family and neighbors of Quinterious Hillman and Jerod Lester watch as Bibb County Sheriffs Deputies investigate the scene of Hillman and Lesters killing in May.

Looking for solutions amid the pandemic homicide spike

June 10, 2021
Hiring more tutors to offer more individual instruction are among the ideas provided by school system staff.

Bibb County Schools Asks Parents For Ideas For Spending $100 Million

April 30, 2021
As Georgia Mass Vaccination Sites Close, Grassroots Efforts Try To Fill In The Gaps

As Georgia Mass Vaccination Sites Close, Grassroots Efforts Try To Fill In The Gaps

April 28, 2021
A huge chunk of county money set aside for blight remediation in the Kings Park neighborhood of Macon went to building a community center that isnt open many weekdays.

[Photo] Addressing Blight in Macon

April 20, 2021
A study is underway to determine whether a 50-mile stretch of the Ocmulgee River and adjacent land should be added to the National Park Service.

[Photo] Should expanded Ocmulgee Mounds national park extend to Hawkinsville?

February 8, 2021
Ahead Of The Super Bowl, A Pandemic Driven Shortage Of Chicken Wings

Ahead Of The Super Bowl, A Pandemic Driven Shortage Of Chicken Wings

February 4, 2021
Volunteers, mostly from the Single Moms Connect support group, prepare grocery boxes during one of the groups twice monthly food disbursals in Houston County.

Cost of COVID: Food Bank Labor Dries Up

November 22, 2020
Trump Supporters at 2018 rally in Macon.

Headed To Trump’s Macon Rally? Know The COVID-19 Risk

October 15, 2020
Bibb County High School students earning credits, and preparing high end restaurant food through the districts culinary program at Hutchings Career Academy.

[Video] Keeping The Kitchen Open, To Graduate

October 5, 2020

Virtual School, The Struggle To Go Online

September 15, 2020
Cars snaked around St. Paul AME Church in Macon during a four hour coronavirus testing pop up Wednesday.

Macon Coronavirus Infections Doubled In Last 2 Weeks

July 8, 2020
Technicians at the Hancock County Health Department wait to perform a coronavirus test in May. The virus spread in Hancock has been labeled severe.

[Video] Coronavirus cases on the rise in young adults

June 30, 2020
Mercer University in Macon conducted pop up coronavirus testing at a homeless day center after other labs turned people away for not having a car for drive up tests.

[Video] Coronavirus Tests For The Homeless When ‘Drive Up’ Isn’t An Option

June 5, 2020
Testing performed by a private lab in a church parking lot in Macon. Testers usually recommend breathing through the mouth as the swab goes to the back of the nasal cavity.

How To Get A Coronavirus Test In Georgia

May 13, 2020
New pedestrian crosswalks at Bass Road and Interstate 75 are part of state safety enhancements but there are no sidewalks on that busy thoroughfare.

[Photo] Bass Road crosswalks to nowhere spark safety planning discussion

January 24, 2020
Grant Wmaz

[Photo] When and why are teens committing crimes?

September 17, 2019
Georgia gubernatorial candidate Brian Kemp at the Georgia Chamber of Commerce Congressional Luncheon at the Macon Marriott City Center on Tuesday, August 21, 2018.

Why Shouldn’t Kemp Recuse Himself? Ask Someone Who Had His Job

August 23, 2018
Chiquita Dinkins teaches a unit on photosynthesis to students at the old Northeast High School in Macon in 2018.

Former students, now teachers, taking the lead in helping turn around this school

October 20, 2017
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[Photo] “Where do the white kids go to school in Macon?”

April 5, 2017

[Video] Journey to school integration was painful, prolonged process

March 31, 2017
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