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A Georgia bill paves the way for suing cities that don’t enforce homelessness laws

Grant Blankenship, Georgia Public Broadcasting
April 29, 2026

At a ‘Ghost Bike’ ceremony, a memorial to a Georgia cyclist and a call for safer roads

Grant Blankenship, Georgia Public Broadcasting
March 9, 2026

Amid HUD changes to funding to help the homeless, Georgia groups try to plan for what’s next

Amanda Andrews, Grant Blankenship, and Sofi Gratas
December 18, 2025

Coffee prices have you down? Meet North America’s own hot brewed pickup: Yaupon tea

Grant Blankenship, Georgia Public Broadcasting
December 15, 2025

‘I’ve never seen it this bad.’ Georgia food systems strain under shutdown pressure

Sofi Gratas, Grant Blankenship, and Sarah Kallis
November 7, 2025

Ahead of SNAP Pause, Empty Shelves At the Food Bank

Grant Blankenship, Georgia Public Broadcasting
October 29, 2025

Staff for state regulators say they doubt Georgia Power’s energy demand predictions

Grant Blankenship, Georgia Public Broadcasting
May 28, 2025

Zelma Redding honored at Mercer’s Graduation

The doctorate in humanities recognizes her contributions to Macon and the larger arts community

Grant Blankenship, Georgia Public Broadcasting
May 13, 2025

How federal cuts to the National Endowment for the Humanities touch Georgia

Grant Blankenship, Georgia Public Broadcasting
May 7, 2025

In Macon, a day to celebrate becoming an American

Grant Blankenship, Georgia Public Broadcasting
April 14, 2025

New arts center named for soul great Otis Redding is open for education and expression

Grant Blankenship, Georgia Public Broadcasting
March 20, 2025

Georgia factory making emergency food for children worldwide is back working for USAID

Grant Blankenship, Georgia Public Broadcasting
March 5, 2025

Tubman museum’s newspaper ad exhibition honors the humanity of enslaved people

Grant Blankenship, Georgia Public Broadcasting
February 24, 2025

For Kennesaw State students, the first step in revitalizing Macon’s Greenwood Bottom is listening

Grant Blankenship, Georgia Public Broadcasting
December 11, 2024

East Macon residents ask developers to keep an eye out for them in the East Bank Project

Grant Blankenship, Georgia Public Broadcasting
November 22, 2024

[Photo] New Year’s Eve hotel demolition creates downtown development opportunity

Liz Fabian, Civic Journalism Senior Fellow
November 20, 2024

Hurricane Helene knocked a massive hole in Georgia’s timber industry

Grant Blankenship, Georgia Public Broadcasting
November 18, 2024

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

Grant Blankenship, Georgia Public Broadcasting
October 2, 2024

Pleasant Hill to get new affordable housing

Rent will be capped at $600 in the 64-apartment development

Grant Blankenship, Georgia Public Broadcasting
September 20, 2024

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

Grant Blankenship, Georgia Public Broadcasting
August 24, 2024

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

Grant Blankenship, Georgia Public Broadcasting
August 15, 2024

Sparta residents and the railroad they oppose get a final hearing

Grant Blankenship, Georgia Public Broadcasting
August 8, 2024

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

Grant Blankenship, Georgia Public Broadcasting
July 31, 2024

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

Grant Blankenship, Georgia Public Broadcasting
June 27, 2024

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

Grant Blankenship, Georgia Public Broadcasting
May 22, 2024

Oklahoma’s Muscogee (Creek) Nation prepares to co-manage Georgia’s first National Park

Grant Blankenship, Georgia Public Broadcasting
May 7, 2024

‘A long time coming’: How Macon is preserving Black history in bronze and QR codes, one by one

Grant Blankenship, Georgia Public Broadcasting
April 23, 2024

What’s legal for closing Georgia’s coal ash ponds might hinge on one word: Infiltration

Grant Blankenship, Georgia Public Broadcasting
April 15, 2024

Bibb County law enforcement wants residents to share their doorbell cameras

Grant Blankenship, Georgia Public Broadcasting
April 1, 2024

Hundreds of cremated remains of unclaimed people scattered in Macon ceremony

Grant Blankenship, Georgia Public Broadcasting
March 29, 2024

In Macon, the city’s cherry blossom festival chases the calendar amid a changing climate

Grant Blankenship, Georgia Public Broadcasting
March 22, 2024

Georgia ends its pandemic moratorium on executions by killing Willie Pye

Grant Blankenship, Georgia Public Broadcasting
March 21, 2024

Candidates for Bibb County sheriff debate the roots of violent crime in Macon

Grant Blankenship, Georgia Public Broadcasting
March 12, 2024

Why Supreme Court debate recalls prophetic words spoken by Maconite Jefferson Long in 1871

Grant Blankenship, Georgia Public Broadcasting
February 8, 2024

In the hills of West Georgia, decades of care and fire sculpt a new home for endangered woodpeckers

Grant Blankenship, Georgia Public Broadcasting
January 5, 2024

Protesters outside governor’s mansion demand Kemp take action against prison violence

Grant Blankenship, Georgia Public Broadcasting
October 4, 2023

Mercer students continue tradition of creating 3D yearbooks for the blind

Grant Blankenship, Georgia Public Broadcasting
May 10, 2023

Program aimed at encouraging students to be teachers graduates its first class

Grant Blankenship, Georgia Public Broadcasting
May 5, 2023

A Georgia Senate bill asks for audits of homeless services. Why?

Grant Blankenship, Georgia Public Broadcasting
March 8, 2023

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

Grant Blankenship, Georgia Public Broadcasting
February 1, 2023

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

Grant Blankenship, Georgia Public Broadcasting
January 23, 2023

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

Tanya Ott, Center for Collaborative Journalism
May 26, 2022

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

Grant Blankenship, Georgia Public Broadcasting
April 8, 2022

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

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
February 18, 2022

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

Tanya Ott
February 14, 2022

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[Photo] Why the investigation into Georgia prisons matters

Debbie Blankenship, Center for Collaborative Journalism
November 19, 2021

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

Grant Blankenship, Georgia Public Broadcasting
November 19, 2021

What’s up with the Landfill and my trash?

Grant Blankenship, Georgia Public Broadcasting
June 29, 2021

Looking for solutions amid the pandemic homicide spike

Grant Blankenship, Georgia Public Broadcasting
June 10, 2021

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

Grant Blankenship, Georgia Public Broadcast
April 30, 2021

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

Grant Blankenship, Georgia Public Broadcasting
April 28, 2021

[Photo] Addressing Blight in Macon

Debbie Blankenship, Center for Collaborative Journalism
April 20, 2021

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

Liz Fabian, Civic Reporting Senior Fellow
February 8, 2021

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

Grant Blankenship, Reporter/GPB
February 4, 2021

Cost of COVID: Food Bank Labor Dries Up

Grant Blankenship, Reporter, GPB
November 22, 2020

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

Grant Blankenship, GPB Reporter
October 15, 2020

[Video] Keeping The Kitchen Open, To Graduate

Grant Blankenship, GPB News Reporter
October 5, 2020

Virtual School, The Struggle To Go Online

Grant Blankenship, GPB News Reporter
September 15, 2020

Macon Coronavirus Infections Doubled In Last 2 Weeks

Grant Blankenship, Georgia Public Broadcasting
July 8, 2020

[Video] Coronavirus cases on the rise in young adults

Grant Blankenship, Georgia Public Broadcasting
June 30, 2020

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

Grant Blankenship, Georgia Public Broadcasting
June 5, 2020

How To Get A Coronavirus Test In Georgia

Grant Blankenship, Georgia Public Broadcasting
May 13, 2020

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

Liz Fabian, Civic Reporting Senior Fellow
January 24, 2020

[Photo] When and why are teens committing crimes?

Chelsea Beimfohr, 13WMAZ Staff
September 17, 2019

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

Grant Blankenship, GPB Macon
August 23, 2018

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

Grant Blankenship, Georgia Public Broadcasting
October 20, 2017

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

Ashley P. Murray, Special to The Telegraph
April 5, 2017

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

Andrea Honaker, Telegraph staff writer
March 31, 2017

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