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CNN crew evacuates from Kabul

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Split-Second Decisions 7,400 Miles Apart: How CNN Evacuated Dozens From Afghanistan.

CNN's senior director of operations describes how the Western media outlet scrambled to get its crew and Afghan colleagues out of Kabul. GPB's Riley Bunch reports.

September 15, 2021
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  • Riley Bunch
GA high school students improved this year on end-of-course tests (photo courtesy of igoghost via stockxchng)

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GPB Morning Headlines for September 15, 2021

A Georgia State University sociology professor says her employer is directly putting her in harm's way by not implementing stricter COVID safety protocols.

Nearly 60 years after Marion T. King, a pregnant Black woman lost her unborn child after being assaulted by white police officers, her children are asking Camilla city officials for justice.

September 15, 2021
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  • GPB News Radio
Toomey

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State's Top Public Health Official Tears Up, Thanks Workers For Continuing Despite Being 'Ridiculed'

Georgia Public Health Commissioner Dr. Kathleen Toomey, the state's top public health official, broke down in tears Tuesday as she thanked public health workers for their work in the pandemic. She praised the workers for continuing to do "incredible" work, even though "we're not only not valued, we're ridiculed."

September 14, 2021
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  • Wayne Drash
A newly-released study commissioned by a group seeking to de-annex about 20% of Atlanta for a new Buckhead City says the endeavor would be financially feasible, but it leaves out logistical, political and other budgetary costs of such a drastic measure.

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  • Politics

New Buckhead City Feasibility Study Paints Incomplete Picture Of Proposal

A commissioned study finds Buckhead City could be financially feasible, but it leaves out logistical, political and other budgetary costs of such a measure.

September 14, 2021
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  • Stephen Fowler
The team at Coastal Ecology Lab collects tissue samplings of the hatchlings.

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Okefenokee Welcomes 25 Alligator Hatchlings

The Coastal Ecology Lab and its project partners, Okefenokee Swamp Park, welcomed new life on Monday in the form of 25 alligator babies.

September 14, 2021
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  • Allexa Ceballos
Staff and faculty at Georgia State University participate in a "die-in" protest Sept. 9, 2021, demanding more COVID-19 safety measures on campus.

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Political Rewind: Georgia Faculty, Students Protest Campus COVID Policy; New Polling On Key Races

Tuesday on Political Rewind: Students, faculty and staff on 20 Georgia public college campuses are protesting to demand stricter COVID-19 protections. Protestors say the governor and the Board of Regents’ refusal to require masks on campus is endangering the health of those who live and work on Georgia college campuses.

September 14, 2021
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  • Bill Nigut
Legislature hears about outdoor learning

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Seeing Is Believing; Students Learn Better Outdoors

Students learn faster when they can see the evidence before their eyes, educators told Georgia lawmakers during a recent committee meeting on outdoor learning.

September 14, 2021
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  • Sam Sinclair
Students at Georgia State University

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Professors Start Week Of Campus Protests Against Statewide Classroom Mandatory Mask Ban

 

College professors across Georgia took up signs and bullhorns Monday to protest statewide policies barring university leadership from requiring COVID-19 safety precautions like mandatory masks inside campus buildings.

September 14, 2021
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  • Ross Williams
Pro mask vaccine sign at UGA

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GPB Morning Headlines for September 14, 2021

Protests for stronger COVID policies continued on the University of Georgia and Georgia Southern University campuses yesterday.

The family of the late Julian Lewis, a Black man killed by a state trooper in Screven county last year, is calling for a federal investigation.

The Colorado Rockies come to Truist Park tonight to start a three-game series against the Atlanta Braves.

September 14, 2021
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  • GPB News Radio
Cannabis

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Georgia Lawmakers Want Agriculture Department Involved In Cannabis Oil Program

The Georgia Department of Agriculture should play a role in the state’s fledgling medical marijuana program, a member of a legislative oversight committee said Monday.

September 13, 2021
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  • Dave Williams
Bernice “Queen Bee” Cotton sees the Sept. 18 concert at City Auditorium as the ‘final chapter’ for the gospel singing Cotton Brothers Otis Redding helped make famous.

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'Queen Of Gospel' Shirley Caesar To Pay Tribute To Macon's Famous Cotton Brothers

Pandemic-postponed Macon City Auditorium concert is ‘bittersweet’ after four of the Cotton brothers died of COVID-19

September 13, 2021
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  • Liz Fabian
President Joe Biden speaks in the State Dining Room at the White House, Thursday, Sept. 9, 2021, in Washington. Biden is announcing sweeping new federal vaccine requirements affecting as many as 100 million Americans in an all-out effort to increase COVID-19 vaccinations and curb the surging delta variant.

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Political Rewind: Biden, Kemp Clash Over Federal Order For Businesses To Mandate Vaccination

Monday on Political Rewind: Businesses across the state are trying to determine how to comply with President Joe Biden’s new vaccine order. It tells companies with more than 100 workers that they need to require vaccines. Meanwhile, faculty and students at more than a dozen Georgia public universities are planning a series of demonstrations protesting the lack of mask mandates.

September 13, 2021
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  • Bill Nigut ,
  • Sam Bermas-Dawes ,
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President Joe Biden in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Tuesday, June 22, 2021, in Washington.

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GPB Morning Headlines for September 13, 2021

President Biden is accusing Republican governors, like Brian Kemp, of being "cavalier with the health of kids and their communities." 

Since the start of the pandemic, 44 Georgia teachers have died from the coronavirus, according to Education Week.

An explosion endangered the lives of many at an Atlanta area apartment complex on Sunday.

September 13, 2021
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  • GPB News Radio
Offshore wind energy

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Four Big Climate Items In Congress' Reconciliation Bill Include Wind Power Off Georgia Coast

As part of an agenda meant to move the United States away from fossil fuels and toward sustainable energy sources, the bill would reestablish the federal government’s authority to hold lease sales for offshore wind development off the Atlantic coasts of Florida, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina and in the Gulf of Mexico.

September 13, 2021
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  • Jacob Fischler
This image shows a part of the proposed Spaceport in Camden County, Ga.

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  • Environment

Georgia Today: Cumberland Residents and Advocates Hoping to Scrub Proposed Camden County Spaceport

The Federal Aviation Administration is expected to decide this month whether or not to allow the proposed Spaceport Camden to go forward in Camden County, Ga. The spaceport, supporters say, would mean tourism and big business for the county. But the proposed launch facility would send rockets over the federally protected Cumberland and Little Cumberland islands. This has alarmed residents and environmental advocates. In this Georgia Today, Savannah-based freelance reporter Alexandra Marvar explores the debate.  

 

September 10, 2021
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  • Steve Fennessy and
  • Jahi Whitehead
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