Rebecca Grapevine/Healthbeat, Allen Siegler/Healthbeat, Author …
Dec 28, 2024 · Allen Siegler is one of Healthbeat’s local reporters in Atlanta. Before joining Healthbeat, Allen was the public health reporter at Mountain State Spotlight, a nonprofit investigative newsroom covering issues in West Virginia.
Midway budget vote on hold until Dec. 16 as fire talks continue
Dec 11, 2024 · Midway’s city council voted Dec. 9 to delay final approval of the 2025 budget to Dec. 16 while it continues negotiations with the Liberty County Board of Commissioners about whether Midway will contract with the county for full fire services within the city limits.
Ann Woolner, Author at The Current
Ann Woolner comes to The Current as a part-time reporter after a full-time journalism career in Memphis, Atlanta, Washington, D.C., and Savannah. She has covered law, government and politics for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, including four years in Washington. Her law-related opinion column, first for American Lawyer media and then Bloomberg News, has been published nationally and ...
The Current: In-Depth Journalism for Coastal Georgia
Jan 7, 2025 · SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTERS. Five notes each week bring you timely, in-depth environment notes, politics updates and public safety news. Plus, there’s a list of public meetings for your county and city and a Sunday roundup of news and ideas to help make our communities stronger.
Georgia’s private-school vouchers program gets off to shaky start
Dec 9, 2024 · The state office in charge of implementing Georgia’s controversial private school voucher initiative has issued and now withdrawn a list of underperforming schools whose students are eligible for the subsidy.
50 houses remain empty; Brunswick Housing Authority says it’s …
Oct 10, 2024 · The community housing group Hand in Hand of Glynn is facing a logjam — 50 tiny homes in Brunswick sit vacant almost 18 months after completion due to continued bureaucratic complications and disjointed communication with the Brunswick Housing Authority.. Hand in Hand of Glynn, which has raised more than $6 million to provide housing as well as medical and social services in one location for ...
Three new sheriffs elected in Coastal Georgia as voters seek change
Nov 6, 2024 · Correction at 12:28 p.m., Nov. 7, 2024: Coleman is not a first-time candidate.He ran for sheriff against Al St. Lawrence in 2004. Three first-time or non-incumbent candidates for sheriff in Coastal Georgia won these powerful law enforcement posts, as voters chose change and reform in these positions that control jails and solve crimes within county lines.
Georgia Power expects electricity demands to triple in next decade
Dec 3, 2024 · Georgia Power projects that over the next decade the state will be leading the nation’s second industrial revolution, led by artificial-intelligence-boosting data centers, which could triple the state’s energy consumption.
Costs, delays increase as unbuilt Chatham emergency ops center …
Jan 9, 2025 · Costs and delays continue to climb for Chatham County’s sorely-needed 911 and emergency operations headquarters project. Last May, county commissioners and the county chairman — who was facing re-election — donned hard hats and shovels at a celebratory ground-breaking ceremony at the future site.
Georgia measure would cap increases in homes' taxable value to …
Oct 17, 2024 · Supporters say it will protect current homeowners from ever-higher property tax bills, but opponents warn that the caps will unfairly shift the burden onto new homeowners, renters and other property holders.