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A Bibb Superior Court hearing May 22 in a nine-month legal battle between the Board of Elections and Macon-Bibb County's mayor and commissioners led to the case being dismissed.

Board of Elections loses legal case against mayor and commissioners

Liz Fabian, Civic Journalism Senior Fellow
May 25, 2023
Confederate statue of an anonymous soldier on display in Macon, Georgia at the Rose Hill Cemetery. The statue was moved from downtown Macon a month before the ban on critical race theory went into effect in the state.

The Teaching of Critical Race Theory was Banned in Georgia. What Does This Mean in Practice?

Kai Shotwell, Center for Collaborative Journalism
December 11, 2022
The Macon-Bibb County Board of Elections held a hybrid in-person and online meeting broadcast on YouTube.

Macon-Bibb wants 3 early-voting sites, preps for possible Saturday vote

Liz Fabian, Civic Journalism Senior Fellow
November 18, 2022
An ambulance is pictured outside the Medical Center, Navicent Health, (then The Medical Center of Central Georgia) in this 2009 file photo. Federal law requires all Medicare-participating hospitals with emergency departments to medically screen and stabilize any patient in need of emergency care.

Hospital authority plans to ask Macon-Bibb for a cut of its tax revenue

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
November 17, 2022
What do Georgia public schools teach in sex education? It depends on the school system

What do Georgia public schools teach in sex education? It depends on the school system

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
August 10, 2022
Bibb County Board of Education Member Juawn Jackson introduces a policy the state requires the board to adopt on so-called "divisive concepts."

Bibb Board of Education: ‘I’m sorry we have to pass this policy’

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
July 22, 2022

Hoarder crackdown begins in Macon

Liz Fabian, Civic Journalism Senior Fellow
July 19, 2022
Macon's Diane Vann listens to an assistant attorney general challenging her State Senate District 18 candidacy during an Administrative Law Judge hearing May 19.

Midstate candidate disqualified to run in Georgia Senate race

Liz Fabian, Civic Journalism Senior Fellow
May 23, 2022
Georgia Department of Corrections cadets and trainers before the 2010 ribbon cutting for the department's 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.

What’s behind the understaffing at Georgia prisons? Ask the staff

Grant Blankenship, Georgia Public Broadcasting
January 26, 2022
New laws regulating bars and nightclubs serving alcohol took effect July 1 in Macon.

Bars, nightclubs have new security laws to follow in Macon-Bibb

Liz Fabian, Civic Journalism Senior Fellow
August 11, 2021
Late fees waived for business license renewal, litter cams considered

Late fees waived for business license renewal, litter cams considered

Liz Fabian, Civic Journalism Fellow
April 7, 2021
A change in Georgia law removes food safety enforcement from the Department of Public Health for nonprofit-led events such as Macon's Cherry Blossom Festival.

Health Dept. loses oversight of Cherry Blossom Festival food

Liz Fabian, Civic Reporting Senior Fellow
March 19, 2021
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