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Dickens proposes $790M Atlanta budget, largest in city’s history

Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens’ has proposed a $790 million general fund budget for the 2024 fiscal year, beginning July 1.

May 02, 2023
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  • Dyana Bagby

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Writers’ strike may affect thousands of Georgians in film and TV industry

The Writers' Guild of America strike began at midnight, but writers are not the only film and TV industry workers that could be affected.

May 02, 2023
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  • Donna Lowry
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, bottom center, speaks to state Sen. Larry Walker III, R-Perry, right, before signing bills into law at the state Capitol on Tuesday, May 2, 2023, in Atlanta. Georgia's state government will for the first time run its own marketplace for individual health insurance under a law that Republican Gov. Kemp signed.

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Georgia to take over health insurance market under new law

Georgia's state government will for the first time run its own marketplace for individual health insurance under a law that Gov. Brian Kemp signed Tuesday. The Republican governor says the law will help people better know and compare health insurance options and promote competition.

May 02, 2023
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  • Associated Press
Nuri and Sofia Icgoren operate an organic farm in Atlanta's Lakewood Heights neighborhood.

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Farmers looking for organic certification can apply for share of $70M in USDA assistance

A fresh batch of federal funding is being made available to Georgia farmers who are in the process of transitioning to organic crop production and seeking USDA organic-certified status. The deadline to apply is June 15.

May 02, 2023
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  • Benjamin Payne
A member of the Starbucks Workers union wears a "solidarity brewing" pin at a rally for improved working conditions on May 1, 2023.

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Starbucks workers protest delayed union negotiations

Starbucks workers rallied at the company’s regional corporate office in Atlanta on Monday to hand over a list of demands for better working conditions at the coffee giant.

May 02, 2023
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  • Amanda Andrews
Alysia Cutting, rural health equity director with SOWEGA Rising, talks to people about the Medicaid unwinding process during a recent health fair in Albany.

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Clock winds down for Georgians to requalify for Medicaid with coverage for up to 500,000 at risk

Some people know what Alysia Cutting is talking about when she brings up Medicaid unwinding as she moves from one community event to the next in Southwest Georgia.

May 02, 2023
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  • Jill Nolin
 Georgia Power Co.'s Plant Vogtle nuclear power plant is seen, Jan. 20, 2023, in Waynesboro, Ga., with two older reactors on the left and two new reactors on the right. Georgia Power announced Monday, May 1, that the second new reactor had completed a testing phase, getting closer to generating electricity.

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Georgia Power completes hot functional testing at Plant Vogtle’s Unit 4

Georgia Power is making significant progress with the second of two additional nuclear reactors being built at Plant Vogtle even as the first of the new reactors prepares to go into commercial operation.

May 02, 2023
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  • Dave Williams
Immanuel Stephens and his mother Lisa Stephens at a MARTA platform

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Children with autism are making public service announcements on MARTA trains

The announcements are the brainchild of Jonathan Trichter, who founded the Autism Transit Project and is responsible for getting the voices of children with autism on MARTA. 

May 02, 2023
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  • Ellen Eldridge
FILE PHOTO: The sign of a Starbucks store is seen in New York January 24, 2014. REUTERS/Eric Thayer/File Photo/File Photo

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Georgia Today: Kemp signs insurance bill; Starbucks workers rally; MARTA raises autism awareness

On the Tuesday, May 2 edition of Georgia Today: Gov. Brian Kemp signs a bill creating Georgia's own state-run health insurance marketplace; Atlanta Starbucks employees demand better working conditions; And a new program to raise awareness of autism is launching on MARTA.

May 02, 2023
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  • Peter Biello and
  • Jeremy Powell
 Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy testifies before the Senate Finance Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, on Feb. 8, 2022, on youth mental health care. Widespread loneliness in the U.S. is posing health risks as deadly as smoking a dozen cigarettes daily, costing the health industry billions of dollars annually, the U.S. surgeon general said Tuesday in declaring the latest public health epidemic.

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Loneliness poses risks as deadly as smoking: surgeon general

The U.S. surgeon general says loneliness poses health risks as deadly as smoking a dozen cigarettes daily, costing the health industry billions of dollars annually. Dr. Vivek Murthy's report issued Tuesday says about half of U.S. adults say they've experienced loneliness.

May 02, 2023
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  • Associated Press

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Georgians starting to get tax refund checks

Georgia taxpayers have begun receiving refunds for the second year in a row, Gov. Brian Kemp announced Monday.

May 02, 2023
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  • Dave Williams
This Monday, May 1, 2023 photo shows the main entrance to Savannah State University in Savannah, Ga. Savannah State President Kimberly Ballard-Washington is resigning as leader of Georgia's oldest historically Black public university amid financial challenges that include employee layoffs and a faculty revolt against one of her top administrators.

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Savannah State leader resigning amid declining enrollment

The president of Georgia's oldest historically Black public university is resigning amid financial challenges that sparked employee layoffs and a faculty revolt against one of the top administrators. Savannah State University President announced Thursday that she would step down on June 30.

May 02, 2023
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Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport

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GPB morning headlines for May 2, 2023

A months long spike in violence continues at a Georgia prison already known to be one of the state’s deadliest.

Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport is trying to lure back international flights.

Starbuck workers rallied at the company’s regional corporate office in Atlanta Monday to hand over a list of demands for better working conditions at the coffee giant.

May 02, 2023
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Georgia Today: 'Woke' teacher training; Biden commutes drug sentences; Georgia scores in NFL Draft

On the Monday, May 1 edition of Georgia Today: New guidelines to eliminate so-called “woke” language from teacher training programs; The Atlanta airport encourages airlines to offer more international routes from Atlanta; And we'll learn how football players from Georgia fared in the NFL Draft from GPB's Jon Nelson. 

May 01, 2023
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  • Peter Biello and
  • Jeremy Powell
Keke Palmer, Darius Jackson and their newborn Leodis.

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Keke Palmer awarded at The Atlanta Film Festival: 'It feels like home'

Actress, singer and onetime Atlanta resident Keke Palmer received the Ossie Davis Award from The Atlanta Film Festival on its closing night. "You deserve anything you ever get," fellow multi-hyphenate Dolly Parton said in a recorded portion of the presentation.

 

May 01, 2023
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  • Sonia Murray
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