TODAY’S FEATURED STORY
New Glynn police chief’s past lawsuits linger
Georgia education panel votes to cleanse teacher lesson plans as school culture wars rage on
Georgia PSC reverses course, pulls support for plan to burn tires to produce energy
Development continues as Liberty County fire protection lags
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Audit: Rural hospital tax credit paying off
Savannah’s original suffragist gets historical marker
Hyundai, LG Energy to partner for metaplant battery manufacturing
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PUBLIC SAFETY, Courts
Data dive: How Savannah measures crime
Crime is a part of life in Savannah. But just how bad is it? The Current breaks down police data about safety in Georgia’s first city.
Keep readingThe Tide: Drastic decline in Savannah murder statistics
Chatham sheriff resumes jailing for misdemeanor crimes in return to pre-Covid policy
AG takes case of $3.2 million PSA fraud in Camden County
Embattled former Savannah police chief’s nomination for U.S. Marshal moves forward
Mother of Savannah teen killed sues public housing agency
Savannah officer fired after DUI arrest while suspended for fatal shooting
ENVIRONMENT, SCIENCE
Horses of Cumberland file suit
Underwater robot deployed to aid endangered right whales
Georgia’s hedge against climate change: the Okefenokee’s peat
EDUCATION
In public comment period, commissioners who voted to delete ‘diversity’ from lessons filtered out public
Camden County school board announces superintendent pick
Savannah-Chatham County school board announces superintendent pick
Medical College plans 4-year branch at Armstrong campus
Georgia university system holds line on tuition as chancellor warns of economic headwinds
U.S., Georgia face another milestone in battle over abortion rights
Carter hasn’t signed court brief condemning federal judge’s ruling but hasn’t joined GOP effort in support of it.
Records show Pinova stumbles in complying with regulations
The Tide: Did lawmakers address your top issues?
Slideshow: Pembroke draws the curious as Murdaugh household items go to auction
Carter grills TikTok CEO
Brunswick chemical exposure testing underway
Hydrologists: EPD using wrong data to predict mine’s impact on Okefenokee
Study recruits Glynn residents to measure their bodies’ chemical levels
Coastal Georgia Republicans, Democrats struggle for souls of their parties
Voting system, gambling loom over Georgia lawmakers’ agenda
PUBLIC HEALTH
Trauma care in Georgia is strained, and a rural review points to systemic failures
Nearly every Georgia county faces a shortage of primary care providers
Georgia budget funds pilot program aimed at improving infant, maternal mortality rate
Georgia study about grief shows how a person can die from a broken heart
End of public health emergency won’t affect COVID vaccines, testing for now
New challenge filed asking court to open up Georgia’s secretive medical cannabis regulations
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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
Q&A: Former firearms company exec explains roots of America’s gun violence epidemic
Former gun industry executive says the epidemic of mass shootings results from the breakdown of unspoken social contract the firearms industry once recognized as important to maintaining the freedom…
Voters want compromise in Congress – so why the brinkmanship over the debt ceiling?
Research shows that the public does not like gridlock on issues in which people agree on the end goal. The public, on average, even prefers a victory for the…
When faith says to help migrants – and the law says don’t
Legal shifts allow humanitarian groups to help migrants as expression of religious faith.
Health insurance claim denied? See what insurers said behind the scenes.
Federal regulations require most health insurance plans to give people an opportunity to review documents related to their claim for free. So if your insurer talks to your…
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.
Scholarship Tax Credit Program: $600M with little oversight
With no data or complaint process to guide, Georgia’s School Scholarship Organizations have shifted more than $600 million from state coffers to scholarships at private schools around the state – including more than 40 in the Savannah area.
‘It seemed like our lives didn’t matter.’
Generations of Black residents in Brunswick and Glynn County moved away to find opportunity and equality. A Better Glynn wants to improve things at home instead.
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.
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