Sofi Gratas covers rural health and health care for GPB. She joined GPB in June 2022 as a Report for America Corps member. Her focus is on the crisis facing rural communities that consistently rank near the bottom nationwide in health and health care. Sofi is a 2020 graduate of the University of Georgia's Grady School of Journalism. Prior to joining GPB, she worked at the Red and Black and WUGA.
Federal support from the Farmer Bridge Assistance Program will help farmers in the short-term. But what will help them in the long term? Georgia farmers and agriculture officials weigh in.
Georgia's poultry industry was marked free of avian influenza, also known as bird flu, earlier this month. Meanwhile Georgia's wild birds continue to get hit by fatalities.
Winter bird migrations pose some challenges during ongoing avian influenza outbreak
Homeless service organizations in Georgia are unsure about what funding they will have to work with in the coming year because of changes in mission at the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development — changes currently being challenged in federal court.
