On the Monday Aug. 7 edition of Georgia Today: Rising temperatures put a strain on Georgia hospitals; an effort to unionize at the Savannah Morning News fails; and a conversation with the drummer of the Georgia-based band Mastodon.
On this episode, we’ll turn back the clock to understand how we got here and why Georgia’s election system became ground zero for election conspiracies.
A unionization effort has failed at the Savannah Morning News amid staff departures at the Gannett-owned newspaper.
The federal Environmental Protection Agency is telling regulators in Alabama that their plans for long term storage of the toxic material left over from burning coal to make electricity are against the law.
Gov. Brian Kemp signed orders last month to tear down four historic buildings at Central State Hospital in Milledgeville that the state says are unsafe.
A Georgia native and finalist on this season of GPB’s The Great American Recipe is using her platform to educate on the issue of food insecurity and summer hunger. In the Atlanta Community Food Bank's Learning Kitchen, Leanna Pierre taught viewers how to recreate two of her favorite recipes and asked them to get involved in improving their communities.
Lawyers for the family of a man who died in a bedbug-infested cell in a Georgia jail's psychiatric wing say they've reached a settlement with the county. Lashawn Thompson died in September, three months after he was booked into the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta.
This week, Sens. Ossoff and Warnock focused on maternal health research; uninsured patients affording insulin; specialty crop farmers; expanded health care for service members; water projects along the Chattahoochee River; and national security.
On the Friday, Aug. 4 edition of Georgia Today: Preparations are under way in downtown Atlanta in anticipation of potential indictments related to the 2020 election and former President Trump; an EPA ruling in Alabama on coal ash may have broad implications here in Georgia; and a conversation with the journalists behind our series investigating when it's too hot to work.
Information from a December 2020 meeting of the Georgia Senate was mentioned in Tuesday’s federal indictment of former President Donald Trump. A Georgia State Senator attended that gathering and spoke to GPB.
The largest part of Georgia’s 2024 state budget funds health care and education, but analysts with the Georgia Budget and Policy Institute says lawmakers are leaving billions in the bank instead of helping Georgians.
A Columbus vinyl enthusiast will open the city’s only record store Saturday.
The GBPI says Georgia's overall state reserves, going into fiscal year 2024, are expected to be above $16 billion — and that's money needed to stabilize the state’s broken systems and strengthen communities.