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Macon Housing Authority offices at 2015 Felton Avenue.

Macon Housing Authority plans first-ever development outside Georgia

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
May 13, 2024
Standing on a trolley loaded with representatives from land banks across Georgia, River Edge Behavioral Health CEO Cass Hatcher points to the construction site where a tiny homes development for unhoused individuals who have mental health challenges is being built. The tour of housing developments in Macon on Wednesday was part of the annual Georgia Association of Land Bank Authorities summit.

Georgia aims to grow workforce housing amid statewide housing shortage

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
December 8, 2023
A former office building at 691 Cherry St., which was the Home Federal Building and, later, the Georgia Federal Building at the corner of First Street. The structure could become an apartment building in coming years.

How a new hotel, apartments, a restaurant and a health club may be coming to downtown Macon

Word of the proposed development, which aims to breathe further new life into downtown Macon, emerged publicly Friday.
Laura Corley, The Macon Newsroom and Joe Kovac Jr., The Telegraph
November 17, 2023
Items from a 1973 time capsule are displayed after it was opened at Atrium Health Navicent hospital on Feb. 28, 2023.

Coins, stamps, the Great Snow of ’73: Macon hospital’s time capsules offer a glimpse of the past

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
February 28, 2023
Macon Water Authority members could be removed for ethics violations under proposed changes to its charter.

MWA asks legislature to allow removal of authority member for malfeasance

Macon Water Authority approved charter amendment to go to General Assembly with District 2’s Desmond Brown objecting
Liz Fabian, Civic Journalism Senior Fellow
February 3, 2023
Stacy Jones lives in a small blue house at the dead end of Roosevelt Avenue with his 6-year-old daughter and 97-year-old grandmother. He said he feels like Pleasant Hill is being gentrified.

A state authority got millions to reduce poverty in Pleasant Hill. Has it helped?

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
December 14, 2022

Mayor Miller talks trash pickup, crime, CCP gate demolition, Macon Mall

Macon-Bibb Mayor Lester Miller answers the public's concerns monthly with the Center for Collaborative Journalism. Send questions to [email protected].
February 9, 2022
A July surge in COVID-19 patients has Macon hospitals hustling at near capacity with cases that are markedly different from the virus' emergence in spring.

No answers from Atrium Health Navicent on executive pay changes, hospital authority appointments

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
December 7, 2021
Macon-Bibb County Commissioner Bill Howell shows a south Bibb County deer stand partially submerged after heavy rain in October of 2021.

Record rain deluges Macon Water Authority with flooding woes

Rocky Creek Waste Water Treatment Plant violates overflow and suspended solid levels, plus MWA answers 121 flooding calls
Liz Fabian, Civic Journalism Senior Fellow
October 8, 2021
The Macon Water Authority has approved $1.6 million in renovations for its Second Street headquarters.

Water Authority raises minimum wage, mandates masks in rise of coronavirus

Authority hires consultant for new leadership transition from 'toxic culture' in recent history
Liz Fabian, Civic Journalism Senior Fellow
August 6, 2021
Macon Housing Authority CEO Mike Austin, left, shakes hands with former Macon Water Authority executive director Tony Rojas during his retirement celebration last month.

Macon Water Authority to pay $1.4 million settlement in Rojas exit

Liz Fabian, Civic Journalism Senior Fellow
June 18, 2021

Macon Water Authority Board: March 4, 2021

Claire Cox, Civic Ambassador
March 9, 2021
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