ELECTIONS 2024
Your vote: Guide to 2024 elections in Coastal Georgia
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coastal georgia
On the record: Which entities pay — and don’t pay — Chatham County property taxes
GEORGIA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
How Georgia’s General Assembly writes law on guns, health care, crime and more
Liberty county
Slideshow: Celebrating Susie King Taylor’s freedom
accountability toolkit
Georgia U.S. House District 1 Watch: Buddy Carter
Georgia U.S. Senate Watch: Ossoff, Warnock
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PUBLIC SAFETY, Courts
Self-defense claim fails by man who shot Savannah teen canvassing for Warnock
ENVIRONMENT, SCIENCE
Want clean electricity? Elected officials get to decide
Rooftop program aims to change demographics of solar
Georgia House approves bill to allow property owners to restrict access to state’s smaller waterways
EDUCATION
School voucher bill emerges from Georgia House with more momentum than in past years
Georgia State University pulls the plug on prison education
Tuition, fees to increase at Georgia’s public universities starting fall 2024
Georgia GOP senators hijack bill for culture war on trans treatment, sex ed and bathroom access
Private-school vouchers back before General Assembly
State Senate passes anti-cyberbullying bill
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
Southwest Georgia hospital could reopen with help from federal appropriations
Medicaid expansion chances dim again this year as key health care proposal passes without it
Georgia’s Medicaid work requirements costs taxpayers millions despite low enrollment
politics
Your County Officials, Services
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arts
Savannah Book Festival 2024
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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
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.”
End of internet subsidies for low-income households threatens telehealth access
Program is expected to run out of money in April or May, according to the Federal Communications Commission.
Supreme Court ruling could give school board members more freedom to block critics on social media
Ruling comes down to whether the public official is posting on social media in their official capacity.
What is a frozen embryo worth? Alabama’s IVF case reflects bigger questions over grieving, wrongful death laws
It’s important to understand wrongful death laws, legal claims where family members can bring a civil lawsuit against a person who intentionally or carelessly caused the family member’s death,…
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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