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The Macon Newsroom

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

Judge Connie Williford dismissed the fatally flawed lawsuit over who has the authority to select an elections supervisor candidate
Liz Fabian, Civic Journalism Senior Fellow
May 25, 2023
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

The Board of Elections met Thursday when the prospect of Saturday voting in Georgia was not yet settled
Liz Fabian, Civic Journalism Senior Fellow
November 18, 2022

Hoarder crackdown begins in Macon

By court order, Code Enforcement cleared two properties in west Bibb County and has other hoarder cases pending
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

Diane Vann qualified against Senator John Kennedy, who led the committee that moved Vann 200 yards out of his district
Liz Fabian, Civic Journalism Senior Fellow
May 23, 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

Bibb County Sheriff's deputies to begin enforcing stricter regulations for surveillance cameras and armed security
Liz Fabian, Civic Journalism Senior Fellow
August 11, 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

Who is making sure nonprofit organizations' food is safe?
Liz Fabian, Civic Reporting Senior Fellow
March 19, 2021
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