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GPB morning headlines for December 20, 2022

A cold front is expected to move into Georgia late this week.

An Albany coat drive has kicked off just in time for some of the coldest weather South Georgia has seen in many years.

A charitable care clinic in Macon is celebrating two decades with some new community investments. 

December 20, 2022
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  • GPB News Radio
The exchange rates and logos of Bitcoin (BTH), Ether (ETH), Litecoin (LTC) and Monero (XMR) are seen on the display of a cryptocurrency ATM of blockchain payment service provider Bity at the House of Satoshi bitcoin and blockchain shop in Zurich, Switzerland June 25, 2021. Photo by Arnd Wiegmann/REUTERS

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GPB evening headlines for December 19, 2022

Rome commissioners will consider the city’s first-ever cryptocurrency mining operation tonight.

A charitable care clinic in Macon is celebrating two decades with some new community investments.

Georgia’s first Jewish Congressman, known for standing up for racial and environmental justice, died on Friday.

December 19, 2022
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  • GPB News Radio

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Atlanta mayor, police under pressure after four teens die by gun violence

Fatal shootings near Atlantic Station Nov. 26 and at an Atlanta apartment complex Dec. 17 killed four teens and injured others. Mayor Andre Dickens and the Atlanta Police Department are calling the trend "unacceptable" after public outrage and a student protest.

December 19, 2022
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  • GPB News Staff
Georgia state Sen. Jen Jordan poses for a portrait at the capitol on Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2021, in Atlanta. Campaign finance results show incumbent Republican Attorney General Chris Carr has been outraised by Jordan in the two months that ended June 30. That's one of the campaign finance results for Georgia's statewide races reported Friday, July 8, 2022.

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Political Rewind: Georgia Democrats reflect on 2022 midterms; Jan. 6th Committee's final meeting

Monday on Political Rewind: While Democrats secured Georgia's seat in the U.S. Senate, they lost important seats in the state legislature. A special panel of state Democrats weighs in on lessons learned.

Plus, the January 6th Committee could recommend criminal charges in its final meeting today.

 

December 19, 2022
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By:
  • Bill Nigut ,
  • Chase McGee ,
  • and 2 more
Smiling man gets his eyes checked by optometrist

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U.S. representatives: Federal government should ensure timely cataract surgeries for older Georgians

The federal government should ensure Medicare Advantage insurers Humana and Aetna cover cataract surgeries for older Georgians without delays or denials, Georgia’s Democratic congressional representatives said this week.  

December 19, 2022
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By:
  • Rebecca Grapevine
Headshot of the Georgia Court of Appeals Judge Clyde Reese. The court says Reese died unexpectedly on Saturday after a short hospital stay.

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Georgia Court of Appeals Judge Clyde Reese dies at 64

A Georgia Court of Appeals judge has died at age 64. The court says Judge Clyde Reese died on Saturday.

December 19, 2022
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  • Associated Press
Stacy Jones lives in a small blue house at the dead end of Roosevelt Avenue with his 6-year-old daughter and 97-year-old grandmother. He said he feels like Pleasant Hill is being gentrified.

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A state authority got millions to reduce poverty in Macon's Pleasant Hill. Has it helped?

The Macon-Bibb Community Enhancement Authority is a state authority created a decade ago with the sole mission to reduce poverty in Bibb County. But many longtime neighborhood residents say the success of new and first-time homeownership in Pleasant Hill is a feat that the CEA hasn’t achieved often enough.

December 19, 2022
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  • Laura Corley
A pregnant woman cradles her womb.

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GPB morning headlines for December 19, 2022

Rome commissioners will consider the city’s first-ever cryptocurrency mining operation tonight.

Elliot Levitas, Georgia’s first Jewish Congressman, died on Friday.

Researchers responsible for steering state policy to improve maternal health outcomes have released their latest data on pregnancy related deaths.

December 19, 2022
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  • GPB News Radio
Former Ambassador Andrew Young speaking to students at Atlanta University Center earlier this year (photo credit: Rebecca Grapevine).

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Georgia should create HBCU economic prosperity planning districts, state Senate committee recommends

Georgia should establish special economic prosperity planning districts for its 10 HBCUs, a bipartisan state Senate committee recommended.  

December 16, 2022
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  • Rebecca Grapevine
Savannah is the most historic city in Georgia established in 1733.

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Georgia Today: Murder charges for Georgia mother, Savannah rewriting racist past, holiday traveling

On the Friday Dec. 16 edition of Georgia Today: Murder charges for the mother of the toddler found in a landfill, one of Savannah’s iconic town squares may be taking a big step to rewrite its racist past, and 5.2 million people will travel through ATL this holiday season.

December 16, 2022
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  • Peter Biello and
  • Jeremy Powell
Labor Commissioner Mark Butler

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GPB evening headlines for December 16, 2022

Georgia's job market continued to cool in November.  Data released yesterday from the Georgia Department of Labor show unemployment ticking up and payrolls flat.

Researchers responsible for steering state policy to improve maternal health outcomes have released their latest data on pregnancy related deaths.

A Brunswick-based environmental group is suing the US Army Corps of Engineers to stop the agency from dredging Brunswick's harbor during sea turtle nesting season.

December 16, 2022
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  • GPB News Radio
Opponents of the $90 million public safety training center erect a flag in the trees of the Weelaunee forest. They have been protesting for months by building platforms in surrounding trees and camping out at the site. 

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5 protesters arrested at Atlanta police training center

A prosecutor says five people arrested on charges including domestic terrorism as authorities tried to remove the protesters from the site of a planned public safety training center will remain in custody without bond.

December 16, 2022
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  • Associated Press
Emerson Baker

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  • Politics

Political Rewind: Emerson Baker, author of 'A Storm of Witchcraft,' discusses today's witch hunts

Friday on Political Rewind, Dr. Emerson Baker talks about the history of witch hunts in America and the political witch hunts of today. 

December 16, 2022
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  • Bill Nigut ,
  • Chase McGee ,
  • and 2 more
Rozz Rouse, who co-chairs the Coalition to Name Taylor Square, poses at the Savannah square formerly named Calhoun Square. She is dressed as Susie King Taylor, a nurse who served with the Union during the Civil War.

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  • History

Will she be the 1st nonwhite or female namesake of a Savannah square? Learn about Susie King Taylor

The Georgia-born nurse, educator, veteran and author was “born into slavery, but never enslaved in her mind.”

December 16, 2022
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  • Benjamin Payne
Nursing is one of the top jobs that requires only a 2-year degree

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  • Health

Squeezed by temp nurse costs, hospital systems create their own staffing agencies

An increasing number of hospital systems like Allegheny Health Network have created in-house staffing teams to cope with the pandemic-fueled nursing shortage — and try to beat private temp staffing agencies at their own game. 

December 16, 2022
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  • Andy Miller
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