EDUCATION
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.
PUBLIC HEALTH
Georgia gets another ‘F’ on preterm births
Georgia continues to rank near bottom for care for preterm births. Lack of prenatal care numbers triple for decade.
COMMUNITY
A brief history of Georgia’s runoff voting – and its racist roots
Hurricane season ends but coastal counties struggle with persistent flood threats
U.S. SENATE RUNOFF ELECTION
Climate check: Loeffler-Warnock runoff offers extreme contrasts on warming
Climate check: Support for fossil fuels divides Perdue, Ossoff
Follow the data: Track Georgia’s U.S. Senate runoff campaigns
Guns, abortion and Karl Rove: Georgia runoffs attract conservative’s cash
How state political parties helped big money pay for this year’s elections
Fact check: Ad links Warnock to ‘Defunding the Police’
Fact check: Perdue-Ossoff runoff ads start with distortions
Fact check: Loeffler-Warnock runoff starts with attack ads
Fact check: Ossoff’s ‘dirty money’ in Georgia’s senate runoff
Georgia Senator David Perdue privately pushed for tax break for rich sports team owners
GEORGIA
Quick look: Compare Georgia’s General Election to 2016, 2018
Map of counties, graphs show how 2020 demographic patterns changed across the last two statewide elections.
State moves to save pristine coastal tract from development
The Georgia Board of Natural Resources will acquire 4,420 acres of coastal habitat along the Satilla River. It had been zoned for high-density housing.
Old chemical plant site in Brunswick faces climate-fueled flood crisis
Closed LCP Chemical plant site holds deadly toxic waste and is threatened by flood, sea-level rise, catastrophic storm surges.
Georgia Power’s land buys: A buffer for pollution?
Georgia Power has paid top dollar for property bordering unlined coal ash ponds across the state.
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georgia LEGISLATURE
Logistics exec: Georgia’s freight capacity needs will require private investment
Logistics executive says Georgia will need $135 billion to $150 billion during the next 30 years to keep up with demand for freight capacity.
Coal ash debate to resume in General Assembly
Will Georgia’s fledgling oyster industry sink before it swims?
Georgia Republicans Fend Off Democrats’ Push to Flip State House
Democrats Use Health Care Access to Battle for Georgia House Control
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EDUCATION
Scholarship Tax Credit Program: $600M with Little Oversight
Two school districts had different mask policies. Only one had a teacher on a ventilator.
Campus free-speech bill first pre-file for 2021 legislative session
Georgia Teachers Group Sues State Over School Reopenings Citing Unsafe Workplace
Georgia Poll: Most Favor Expanded Pre-K, Low-Cost Tech Education
Federal CARES Act Tug-of-War Impacts Coastal Georgia School Budgets
ENVIRONMENT, SCIENCE
Beached whales, dolphins on Atlantic Coast show signs of chemicals
Marine mammals stranded on beaches in the southeastern United States died with high levels of pollutants stored in their organs and blubber, researchers reported recently in Frontiers in Marine Science.
Bridging urban ‘canopy gap’, step 1: Map every tree
A new effort addresses nationwide inequities in tree cover by assigning , the group “Tree Equity Scores” to cities and counties across the United States
Coastal Georgia sea-level rise resources
Look up your home’s flood risk, check your county’s flood maps and plans.
EDITOR’S CHOICE
In Berlin, second-hand craze moves city toward ‘zero-waste’ goal
Businesses take Berlin’s zero-waste goal seriously by adding secondhand goods to department stores, fix-it shops and other ways to keep common goods out of the garbage stream.
Two school districts had different mask policies. Only one had a teacher on a ventilator.
Two schools in Georgia made different choices on whether to require masks for all, reflecting a national split over how far governments should go to beat back a pandemic.
Nursing Home Exec’s Loophole May Haunt Georgia
Ronnie Rollins used a loophole in the law to get money to expand and renovate his long-term care facilities. Now the federal government wants its millions back.