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The Georgia Public Service Commission at a February 2024 meeting Credit: Screen shot from PSC livestream

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Is the Public Service Commission really listening? Climate reporters look at the data

Is the Georgia Public Service commission actually listening to constituents who share strong opinions about Georgia Power's Integrated Resource Plan? 

May 22, 2025
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By:
  • Peter Biello
Henry “Hal” Hart, Brunswick, was a participant in the Emory University exposure study. April 23, 2025 in Brunswick, GA. (Justin Taylor/The Current GA)

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  • Environment

Brunswick human exposure study leaves more questions than answers for participants

The 97-participant study included residents who lived or worked near the toxic sites.

May 22, 2025
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By:
  • Jabari Gibbs and
  • The Current
On Sept. 26, 2024, at 11:10 p.m. EDT, NOAA’s GOES East satellite captured Hurricane Helene making landfall near Perry, Florida, just east of the Aucilla River's mouth. With winds reaching 140 mph, the Category 4 storm ranks among the most powerful to strike the United States.

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2025's Atlantic hurricane predictions are in: 'Get ready for another busy season,' experts warn

With warmer-than-normal ocean waters, forecasters predict above-normal activity in the Atlantic. But they don’t think the 2025 hurricane season, which begins June 1, will be as chaotic as 2024.

May 22, 2025
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By:
  • Associated Press ,
  • GPB News Staff ,
  • and 1 more
A group of at least a dozen people are seen holding a ribbon about to be cut in front of a building.

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  • News

New units address severe housing shortage in Valdosta

Officials recently cut the ribbon on the first phase of a two-phase project to build 180 units of much-needed affordable housing in Valdosta.

May 22, 2025
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By:
  • Orlando Montoya
Jack Hardin, left, chairman of the Fulton County Board of Health, speaks with District Health Director Dr. Lynn Paxton at a board meeting on April 23. (Rebecca Grapevine / Healthbeat)

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  • Health

Fulton County, Georgia health department leaders put on leave after HIV workers laid off

The Fulton County Board of Health this week laid off 17 workers, apparently without the approval of the state Department of Public Health.

May 22, 2025
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By:
  • Rebecca Grapevine and
  • Healthbeat
Queens House of Detention, New York

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  • News

Real estate investor headed to prison in Atlanta fraud scheme

The head of a commercial real estate investment firm has been sentenced to 87 months in prison and ordered to pay $45 million in restitution in a fraud scheme involving the Atlanta Financial Center in Buckhead.

May 22, 2025
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By:
  • Dave Williams and
  • Capitol Beat News Service
Travelers move through Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, Friday, Dec. 20, 2024, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)

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  • News

Traveling this holiday weekend? Here's what to expect

Across the state, Georgians will be on the move for Memorial Day. Experts offer recommendations for travelers in the air and on the roads.

May 22, 2025
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  • Catherine Callaway ,
  • Ambria Burton ,
  • and 1 more

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  • News

GPB morning headlines for May 22, 2025

North Georgia college student in immigration detention has been granted bond; Friday to be busiest travel day this Memorial Day weekend; Carter Center’s mental health program to address the mental health toll of caregiving

May 22, 2025
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  • GPB News Radio
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Georgia Today: Tax relief for seniors; Autonomous vehicles; Public Service Commission public comments

On the May 21 edition: Atlanta housing authority offering 20 years of property tax relief;  autonomous vehicle company coming to Georgia; does the state's PSC consider public comment periods?

May 21, 2025
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  • Peter Biello and
  • Jake Cook
PSC presser

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  • News

Kemp supports energy rate freeze at state Capitol event Wednesday

Gov. Brian Kemp is throwing his support behind Georgia Power's energy rate freeze in the state.

May 21, 2025
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  • Sarah Kallis
A frame grab from dashboard video of Ximena Arias-Cristobal's arrest for driving without a license. The charge would later be dropped but after Immigrations Customs and Enforcement issued and acted on a detainer request to the Whitfield County Jail.

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  • Law

19-year-old who was sent to immigration detention following dropped traffic charges gets bond

North Georgia college student Ximena Arias-Cristobal, who had been in immigration detention for over two weeks, has been granted bond and will go home. 

19-year-old who was sent to immigration detention following dropped traffic charges gets bond

May 21, 2025
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By:
  • Grant Blankenship and
  • Sofi Gratas
Ximena Arias Cristobal was wrongfully arrested following a traffic stop.

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  • News

GPB evening headlines for May 21, 2025

19-year-old student detained by ICE to go home; worker died in workplace accident Hyundai plant; Kemp supports proposed Georgia Power rate freeze.

May 21, 2025
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  • GPB News Radio
Adriana Smith and her son

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  • Health

In the case of a pregnant and brain-dead patient at Emory, answers are not clear cut

The ethical and legal concerns raised over the treatment of Atlanta’s Adriana Smith are representative of experiences in a post-Roe America, some say. 

May 21, 2025
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By:
  • Sofi Gratas
Alton Fry, a Franklin County man who is undergoing treatment for prostate cancer, makes too much money for Medicaid but too little to afford coverage through the marketplace. Jill Nolin/Georgia Recorder

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  • News

Advocates warn that proposed Medicaid cuts threaten Georgia’s safety net programs

Advocates are bracing for potential cuts to Georgia’s safety net programs under the GOP’s “big, beautiful bill” moving through Congress, though it remains to be seen what changes to programs like Medicaid will end up in the final version. 

May 21, 2025
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By:
  • Jill Nolin and
  • Georgia Recorder
Wayne Martin stands behind a podium with older people from the community.

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  • News

Applications closing soon for Atlanta senior property tax relief program

Invest Atlanta is offering 20 years of property tax relief to seniors to help them age in place, but the deadline to apply is coming up soon. 

May 21, 2025
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  • Amanda Andrews
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