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News Articles: Georgia

Georgia Medical Cannabis Society Founders Yolanda Bennett (left) and Angela Weston (right) frequent the Bookstore Gallery, an Atlanta cannabis store, to buy products that help manage their pain.

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'We’ve got a long way to go.' Georgia residents navigate complex maze of cannabis laws

Laws around marijuana are getting looser on some levels and stricter in others. Georgia consumers are left to figure things out for themselves.

June 27, 2024
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  • Amanda Andrews
Gina Palmer, owner of She Salon, is flanked by Senator Jon Ossoff (right) and Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens, spoke of having to watch many of her friends close their small businesses during the Trump administration. “I have seen my friends close their businesses because they were struggling to get by,” Palmer said. “Because of the Biden-Harris administration we are making a comeback.” Photo by Donnell Suggs/The Atlanta Voice

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  • Elections

Biden and Trump surrogates set sights on the Black vote in Georgia

With the 2024 presidential election just a little more than four months away, surrogates for both the Biden-Harris administration and for former United States President Donald J. Trump are hitting the campaign trails throughout Georgia. 

June 27, 2024
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By:
  • Donnell Suggs
East Point City Hall

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  • Politics

Sen. Ossoff proposes bill providing $20 million funding for East Point water infrastructure

U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff is proposing legislation that would designate $20 million to make improvements to one metro Atlanta city’s water system.

June 27, 2024
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By:
  • Amanda Andrews
Preparations for the first presidential debate of the 2024 election season began in advance of the June 27 CNN broadcast.

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GPB morning headlines for June 27, 2024

President Joe Biden and Former President Donald Trump are facing off in Atlanta for the first presidential debate of 2024.

A ‘Sickle Cell Sanctuary’ in Atlanta is providing health support and education for managing chronic disease and the pain that goes with it. 

A program of the US Department of Agriculture aimed at stemming child hunger during the summer break from school has officially begun in Georgia.

June 27, 2024
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By:
  • GPB News Radio
In this combination of photos, President Joe Biden, left, speaks on Aug. 10, 2023, in Salt Lake City, and former President Donald Trump speaks on June 13, 2023, in Bedminster, N.J. The 2024 general election campaign will pick up Saturday, March 9, where the 2020 contest left off. Fresh off their Super Tuesday domination to set up a near-certain rematch, the two rivals will hold dueling events in a state that both parties see as pivotal to winning in November. (AP Photo)

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GPB evening headlines for June 26, 2024

Presidential campaign surrogates are in Atlanta today stumping for Biden and Trump ahead of their presidential debate tomorrow.

Macon is the latest Georgia city to invest in housing specifically for unhoused people. The city has opened several tiny cottages.

National hotel brand Red Roof Inn has reached a settlement that ends a federal trial in Atlanta over sex trafficking allegations.

June 26, 2024
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By:
  • GPB News Radio
Donald Trump and Joe Biden

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Georgia Today: Pres. campaigners arrive in ATL; "40 Acres and a Lie"; Legal cannabis in Georgia

On the Wednesday June 26th edition of Georgia Today: Campaigners for President Joe Biden and Former President Donald Trump arrive in Atlanta ahead of the planned first presidential debate tomorrow; A new investigative report profiles the living descendants of enslaved people for whom the US government's promise of land was fulfilled; And what is the future of legal access to cannabis in Georgia?

June 26, 2024
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  • Peter Biello and
  • Jake Cook
Georgia Tech's McCamish Pavilion awaits approximately '1000 journalists from 170 countries' to cover the CNN presidential debate, according to the university's president Angel Cabrera.

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  • Elections

UPDATES: U.S. presidential debate in Atlanta

From city preparations to the debates broadcast, GPB reporters have the latest news about the first presidential debate of the 2024 election season. Check back for updates. 

June 26, 2024
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  • GPB News Staff
Kids at the Boys and Girls Club on Anthony Road in Macon get their second helpings of fresh fruit and vegetables through the Happy Helpings summer food program recently.

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  • Economy

Hungry Georgia kids now have another way to find meals this summer

A program of the US Department of Agriculture aimed at stemming child hunger during the summer school break has officially begun in Georgia.

June 26, 2024
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By:
  • Grant Blankenship
tiny cottages

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  • Mental Health

Macon joins select cities investing in housing solely for unhoused people

The new development on Macon’s east side, called the Tiny Cottages, are exclusively available to people who meet the federal definition of homelessness.

June 26, 2024
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  • Sofi Gratas
wellpath vs ga hearing

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  • Health Care

Georgia prisons will soon have a new healthcare provider after contract was brought into question

This is the second time health care provider Wellpath’s lawsuit has been dismissed. 

June 26, 2024
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By:
  • Sofi Gratas
The five Republican members of the Georgia Public Service Commission meet Dec. 19, 2023, in Atlanta. The U.S. Supreme Court, Monday, June 24, 2024, declined to hear a challenge to the statewide election of commissioners, which should allow stalled commission elections to resume in 2025.

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Supreme Court won’t hear case claiming discrimination in Georgia Public Service Commission elections

The U.S. Supreme Court won’t hear a case challenging Georgia’s system of electing utility regulators statewide, a decision likely to clear the way for resuming elections to the Georgia Public Service Commission.

June 26, 2024
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  • Associated Press
President Donald Trump walks on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Saturday, Dec. 12, 2020, before boarding Marine One. Trump is en route to the Army-Navy Game at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, N.Y. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

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  • News

Trump has spent months painting Biden as incompetent. Now he's changing his tone before the debate

After months of casting President Joe Biden as a senile shell of a man incapable of putting two sentences together, Donald Trump has changed his tune.

June 26, 2024
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  • Associated Press
Atlanta City Council President Doug Shipman asks MARTA to pause its renovation of Five Points Station during a rally on June 25.

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  • News

City leaders, stakeholders rally against MARTA Five Points Station renovation plan

Advocates continue to put pressure on MARTA to pause its $230 million renovation plan for Five Points Station in downtown Atlanta.

June 26, 2024
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By:
  • Collin Kelley
A calm blue sky is seen in Midtown Atlanta on June 25, 2024, two days before the first presidential debate of the election season.

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  • Elections

As anticipation builds for the presidential debate, Atlanta students and business owners speak out

As Atlanta gears up to host this year’s first presidential debate between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump, a sense of calm anticipation pervades the city before Thursday's expected bustle. With the pressure of the election season mounting, Georgia residents are keenly preparing for the candidates' statements.

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June 26, 2024
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  • Mira Donaldson
U.S. Postal Service vehicles

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GPB morning headlines for June 26, 2024

One man is dead and another hospitalized after apparent opioid overdoses inside a Georgia prison.

Fulton County court officials are blaming U.S. Postal Service consolidations and problems at a new sorting facility south of Atlanta for various court-related issues.

Macon is the latest city to invest in housing specifically meant for people experiencing homelessness. 

June 26, 2024
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