Wednesday on Political Rewind: A college accrediting agency advises Georgia’s board of regents to keep politics out of the search for the next chancellor of the state’s university system. The concern is apparently driven by reports that former Gov. Sonny Perdue is a leading choice for the job. Plus, President Joe Biden travels to Georgia tomorrow following his first speech to a joint session of Congress tonight.

In this morning's headlines, one of Georgia's most notorious law enforcers now finds himself on the wrong side of the law.

Hot functional testing has begun on the first of the new reactors, Unit 3, at the plant south of Augusta. That’s the final series of major tests the reactor must pass prior to initial fuel load.

In the headlines this evening, a metro Atlanta sheriff is charged with violating suspects' civil rights by ordering they be strapped into a restraint chair and left there for hours. 

Georgia's mass COVID-19 vaccination sites are closing. In their place will come lots of grassroots, community-based efforts.

 U.S. health officials say fully vaccinated Americans don't need to wear masks outdoors anymore unless they are in a big crowd of strangers.

Recommendations to set up a new museum exhibit telling the checkered history of the large Confederate mountainside carving and to relocate Confederate flags at the park were pitched at a Stone Mountain Memorial Association board meeting Monday.

In this morning's headlines, proposals unveiled Monday would acknowledge Stone Mountain was a KKK meeting spot, relocate Confederate flags and remove the image of an enormous stone carving of three Confederate leaders from its logo.

Former U.S. Rep. Doug Collins, who lost an open-format election for one of Georgia’s U.S. Senate seats last fall, said he aims to play a role in “shaping our conservative message” to help Republicans win back majorities in Congress.

So far, the invasive zebra mussels species aren't known to exist in Georgia waters. But the state just had a near-miss.

Monday on Political Rewind, a conversation with author and photographer Andrew Feiler about his new book, “A Better Life for Their Children: Julius Rosenwald, Booker T. Washington, and the 4,978 Schools That Changed America.” Feiler traveled some 25,000 miles to photograph 500 school buildings that represent a legacy of education in the South.

Georgia's population has grown by over 1 million people over the last decade, according to the first set of 2020 Census results released Monday. The state will keep 14 Congressional seats and new state and federal district boundaries will include 10% more people this decade.

Last year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported a drop in routine childhood vaccinations as families stayed home to slow the spread of coronavirus. Now, they’re being reminded to not let those vaccines lapse.

Macon-Bibb Tax Commissioner and Land Bank Authority get homes back on tax rolls, ease blight through creative tax sales.

After more than a year of pandemic lockdown, the tourism industry is preparing for millions of newly vaccinated Americans to catch travel fever. That’s a business opportunity for a third-generation Georgia restaurateur, Stuckey's, whose family name was once synonymous with the great American road trip.