INVESTIGATION
A series: Fast-tracking injustice
ELECTION CENTRAL
Your vote: Guide to 2024 elections in Coastal Georgia
Find nonpartisan election reporting, tools that you can use to conduct your own research and practical links to make sure your vote counts.
Meet the candidates: Scheduled public appearances, forums
This a live list, updated as information becomes available for Coastal Georgia.
Primary candidates 2024: Forums video, stories and information
Collection of interviews, forums for Coastal Georgia candidates.
What do they do? Quick glossary for jobs on Georgia primary ballot
What is a Superior Court? From public safety to taxes here are some common terms related to local politics
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coastal georgia
Georgia bill to strip QR codes from ballots would cost tens of millions of dollars
Battle over private dock on Cumberland Island heads back to court
Liberty county
Who’s got a dog in Liberty’s sheriff election fight?
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Georgia U.S. House District 1 Watch: Buddy Carter
Georgia U.S. Senate Watch: Ossoff, Warnock
Qualified candidates for 2024 elections in Coastal Georgia
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PUBLIC SAFETY, Courts
Deputies arrested. Jail in disrepair. Camden sheriff election brings issues to forefront
ENVIRONMENT, SCIENCE
Georgia rooftop solar program gets a boost with $156M grant
Coastal Georgia communities prepare to monitor, treat water for ‘forever chemicals’
Georgia House approves bill to allow property owners to restrict access to state’s smaller waterways
EDUCATION
‘Georgia needs you’: Amid doctor shortage, Savannah med school workshop aims to inspire rural teens
Tuition, fees to increase at Georgia’s public universities starting fall 2024
Georgia Southern students plan protest after cancellation of antidiscrimination program
Georgia State University pulls the plug on prison education
Georgia GOP senators hijack bill for culture war on trans treatment, sex ed and bathroom access
Private-school vouchers back before General Assembly
Researchers ask to expand study of Brunswick pollutants’ effects on residents
Researchers are finalizing their analysis of chemical exposures while also seeking to expand the study
Savannah suspends its glass recycling
Lawmakers take up proposal to honor Clarence Thomas in state Capitol
Skidaway volunteer group disputes with Chatham over emergency calls
Injured whale calf dies
Proposed orders filed for Sapelo zoning case
As state house sprints toward session’s end, it’s hit and miss for Coastal Georgia priorities
Two new North Atlantic right whale calves sighted
Georgia’s legislative priorities: Readers weigh in
Grants will grow tree canopy in Savannah, St. Marys
PUBLIC HEALTH
Bipartisan bill to expand access to Narcan winds through Georgia House
List of free, reduced cost Georgia mental health resource contacts
Groups look to grow a healthy Coastal Georgia one person at a time
Doctors plead with Congress to help improve U.S. maternal mortality rates
Kemp signs bill to ease limits on new health care facilities while restating opposition to Medicaid expansion
Southwest Georgia hospital could reopen with help from federal appropriations
politics
Your County Officials, Services
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arts
Savannah Book Festival 2024
The Current is a Community Partnership sponsor for the Savannah Book Festival. Click here for reviews, schedules. Come visit us on free Festival Saturday!
GOVERNING
Find Out What’s on the Agenda
Click here to see this week’s lineup of what’s being proposed and what’s up for discussion on various committees, boards and councils that represent you.
EDITOR’S CHOICE
Happier, more connected neighborhoods start right in the front yard
Elements that facilitate socializing – a garden chair, a porch, a bench – strongly boosted residents’ sense of place in every dimension and scale, whether it was their view…
Boxes of files, spreadsheets come together to lay out cases not reviewed
The Current spent 15 months looking at the cases involving approximately 450 people flagged by the DA but who were never informed about an opportunity for legal relief.
TikTok fears point to larger problem: Poor media literacy in social media age
The debate over TikTok leaves out the same privacy, influence concerns that are part of other pieces of media.
Author Sarah McCammon talks her new book ‘The Exvangelicals’
Former Savannah journalist, author Sarah McCammon about her new book, “The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church.”
FROM THE CURRENT
Some Georgia tax credit scholarships go to anti-LGBT schools
Websites of 100 SSO scholarship schools in Georgia and found 15 with explicitly anti-gay policies. Many others assert religious stances but do not specifically mention homosexuality.
Red flags about Savannah’s concrete industry reveals wrongdoing
Ten years ago a Savannah whistleblower alerted federal authorities to a cartel costing Georgia taxpayers millions of dollars. This month, U.S. attorneys won their first admission of guilt.
A series: The title-pawn trap
This series, in partnership with ProPublica, focuses on title pawn contracts, the lenders and the lack of regulation in a system that traps many borrowers who already need help to rise out of debt.
Georgia’s hedge against climate change: the Okefenokee’s peat
Carbon stored within the Okefenokee’s peat is a powerful hedge against climate change, as long as it’s undisturbed.
500 new police guns will help failing recruits pass academy, Savannah brass says
The Savannah Police Department and city leaders made misleading claims advocating for 500 new guns with red-dot sights. One reason was that the sights will help failing recruits pass the police academy.
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