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Chicago - Circa April 2022: SNAP and EBT Accepted here sign. SNAP and Food Stamps provide nutrition benefits to supplement the budgets of disadvantaged families.

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GPB evening headlines for March 26, 2025

A new report predicts far-reaching economic impacts in Georgia from federal cuts to Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.

Multiple fires in Floyd County this week may have been intentionally set.

Columbus residents packed a city council meeting yesterday to speak out against the appointment of John Anker to the district-nine city council seat.

March 26, 2025
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  • GPB News Radio
Protesters speak out against federal funding cuts affecting workers as part of a national day of action.

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Here’s the Georgia HIV prevention work at risk from looming CDC funding cuts

Potential cuts to HIV work at the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have local and national experts worried that recent progress in cutting HIV rates will come to a halt. 

March 26, 2025
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By:
  • Rebecca Grapevine
Sen. Brandon Beach (left) pictured with Sen. Larry Walker (right) in the Senate chamber on Tuesday, March 25, 2025. Lt. Gov.  Burt Jones announced that the Trump administration had appointed Beach as U.S. treasurer. Credit: Georgia Senate

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'Lawmakers' Day 35: Senate honors Beach naming as U.S. treasurer, House OKs phone ban in K-8 schools

The Senate said farewell to one of their own this morning, after Sen. Brandon Beach's appointment as the Trump administration's new U.S. treasurer. The House took up several bills dealing with public safety and children.

March 26, 2025
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By:
  • Sarah Kallis and
  • Tristan Smith
Sierra Club of Georgia community activist Keyanna Jones Moore leads a group of demonstrators outside Tuesday’s Georgia Public Service Commission meeting about Georgia Power’s controversial energy roadmap. Stanley Dunlap/Georgia Recorder.

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Georgia Power rolls out new long-term plan, red carpet for more data centers

A panel of Georgia Power representatives testified for eight hours at Tuesday’s Public Service Commission hearing about its controversial roadmap for meeting large-scale, data center-driven energy demands over the next decade.

March 26, 2025
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By:
  • Stanley Dunlap
Previously unknown paintings by author Flannery O’Connor now on display in Milledgeville.

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Rare exhibition of writer Flannery O’Connor's visual art on display in Milledgeville

Artwork by Southern writer Flannery O’Connor is on display in Milledgeville, Ga. While O’Connor is well known for her short stories and novels, she was also a prolific visual artist.

March 26, 2025
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  • Devon Zwald

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GPB morning headlines for March 26, 2025

The Georgia legislature passed a bill that would ban cell phones from public elementary and middle schools; Georgia’s peach farmers could be in for another good year.

March 26, 2025
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  • GPB News Radio

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Georgia Today: Measles outbreaks; School cellphone ban; Flannery O'Connor home tour

On the March 25 edition: Measles outbreaks have health care providers concerned; the Georgia Legislature aims to ban cellphones from schools; for Flannery O'Connor's 100th birthday, a tour lets visitors explore the celebrated author's childhood home in Savannah. 

March 25, 2025
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  • Sofi Gratas and
  • Jake Cook
Protesters speak out against federal funding cuts affecting workers as part of a national day of action.

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GPB evening headlines for March 25, 2025

Top stories about the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; a bill that would ban cell phones from public elementary and middle schools in Georgia; and the projected outcome of this year's peach crop.

 

March 25, 2025
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  • GPB News Radio
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is shown Sunday, March 15, 2020, in Atlanta.

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5 high-level CDC officials are leaving in the latest turmoil for the public health agency

Five high-level officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are leaving. The departures were announced Tuesday at a meeting of agency senior leaders. This means close to a third of the agency's top management is leaving or left recently.

March 25, 2025
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  • Associated Press
Children and family members of migrant farm workers visited the State Capitol on March 21, 2025, to learn about the legislative process, and advocate for the farm worker communities several miles north and south of Atlanta. Agriculture is Georgia's most profitable industry.

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'This is the people’s house': Students from farmworker families speak out at Georgia Capitol

An annual visit by family members of farmworkers in Georgia took on a different tone amid recent targets on immigrant communities.

March 25, 2025
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  • Sofi Gratas
Flannery O'Connor's childhood home in Savannah, located at 207 E. Charlton St.

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See inside the childhood home of Flannery O'Connor, born 100 years ago in Savannah

A pioneer of Southern Gothic literature, Flannery O'Connor spent her first 13 years of life in her hometown of Savannah.

March 25, 2025
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  • Benjamin Payne
A coaltion of Georgia housing rights organizations descended outside the state capitol on the March 5 eve of a critical deadline to advance legislation. Habitat for Humanity volunteers would build a makeshift home to promote a tax credit bill that would save money for home construction expenses for nonprofits. Ross Williams/Georgia Recorder

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Georgia housing groups pessimistic over prospects of Legislature reining in investor price squeeze

A coalition of housing rights advocates are seeing little progress on bipartisan bills aimed at protecting Georgians — despite a push from U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock pushes for federal help.

March 25, 2025
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  • Stanley Dunlap
A yard sign reading "vote today" sits outside a polling place in Savannah, with a live oak tree and Spanish moss in the background.

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GPB morning headlines for March 25, 2025

The spread of the measles has health care providers and scientists concerned; Georgia elections officials are set to cancel up to 455,000 inactive voter registrations this summer.

March 25, 2025
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  • GPB News Radio
decatur child at a unicef cfci event

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Decatur earns UNICEF's 'child-friendly city' status. It's one of only 3 in the U.S.

The city becomes the third city in the United States to earn this title after creating and following a youth-led local action plan.

March 25, 2025
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  • Amanda Andrews
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U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff rallies supporters at Atlanta event

U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff held a rally in Atlanta Saturday that he dubbed the "Rally for Our Republic."

 

March 24, 2025
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  • Sarah Kallis
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