A Georgia prosecutor will not charge the state troopers who shot and killed an activist in January at the site of the planned Atlanta Public Safety Training Center. And a state Senate committee is launching an investigation into conditions at the troubled Fulton County Jail, just three months after the U.S. Department of Justice launched its own inquiry. Plus, a Georgia hospital program is testing a new approach to maternal mental health during and after pregnancy as the state continues to strug...
Oct 07, 2023•16 min•Ep. 168
Former President Donald Trump has notified a Fulton County judge that he will not try to have his Georgia criminal case removed to federal court. The 61 activists charged with conspiracy over efforts to stop the construction of Atlanta's planned public safety training center are set for arraignment in November. And former President Jimmy Carter turns 99 years old on Sunday. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Sep 30, 2023•16 min•Ep. 167
Jeffrey Clark, Shawn Still, Cathy Latham, and David Shaffer are trying to have his Georgia criminal case tried in federal court. Clark is a former DOJ official. The other three were among the 16 Georgia Republicans who met at the State Capitol in December 2020 to cast electoral votes for Donald Trump. Plus, a group of public defenders are advising county officials against a proposal to move inmates out of the overcrowded Fulton County Jail to facilities hundreds of miles away. And tens of thousa...
Sep 23, 2023•16 min•Ep. 166
A Georgia judge, this week, separated the 2020 election interference cases of attorneys Ken Chesebro and Sidney Powell from the cases of former President Donald Trump and 16 others. Plus, a group of voting and civil rights organizations are calling on the City of Atlanta to let voters decide on its proposed Public Safety Training Center, dubbed "Cop City" by opponents. And a federal judge is now considering whether Georgia’s political maps must be redrawn before the 2024 election. Also, the Atla...
Sep 16, 2023•16 min•Ep. 165
A special grand jury that investigated efforts to overturn the 2020 election result in Georgia recommended indicting 39 people, according to a final report unsealed Friday. Plus, the balance of power in Congress and the legislature is on the line as a trial is now underway in Georgia to decide whether the state’s political maps must be redrawn before the 2024 election. And transgender children in Georgia will once again be barred from starting hormone replacement therapy. A federal judge reverse...
Sep 09, 2023•16 min•Ep. 164
Former President Donald Trump pleads not guilty to 13 felony charges alleging he and 18 others tried to subvert the 2020 election result here in Georgia. We also look at more calls for a new Fulton County Jail on Rice Street after a fifth death in August. Georgia's Department of Natural Resources is putting more game wardens at posts across Lake Lanier over this Labor Day holiday weekend as drowning deaths on the notorious lake are up this year. Plus, we look at a new program that pays farmers i...
Sep 02, 2023•16 min•Ep. 163
Our team looks at the historic week that was in Georgia when former President Donald Trump on Thursday turned himself in to Fulton County Jail. Trump and 18 others face election interference charges in a massive conspiracy case in Fulton County, and Friday was the deadline for them to surrender. Plus, UPS workers ratify a labor deal with the delivery giant, ending the chance of a crippling work stoppage. Also, Georgia is a major player in agriculture and is expanding its portfolio to now include...
Aug 26, 2023•16 min•Ep. 162
Fulton County's District Attorney announced the indictment of former President Donald Trump and 18 others late Monday night. It stems from an alleged conspiracy to illegally overturn Georgia's presidential election results in 2020. We look at what sparked the investigation, reaction after the wide-ranging indictments were announced, attempts to move it out of Fulton County and what booking might look like when defendants turn themselves in. Plus, just days after the indictments were announced, T...
Aug 19, 2023•16 min•Ep. 161
Former President Donald Trump is likely to get indicted in Fulton County early next week. It will be his fourth indictment, and experts are across the spectrum on whether the Fulton case is duplicative or critical in the quest for justice. Also, Georgia Labor Commissioner Bruce Thompson is blasting his predecessor for the handling of millions of agency dollars. Plus, Georgia's Stewart Detention Center, one of the country's largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities, has seen some of ...
Aug 12, 2023•16 min•Ep. 160
Former President Donald Trump’s activities in Georgia play a central role in the federal criminal charges filed against him. and that comes as the state's own charges are expected soon. Plus, almost 3 million people in Georgia rely on Medicaid for health insurance but with rules changing, thousands are losing coverage. And the family of a man whose dead body was found covered in bed bugs in his cell at the Fulton County Jail has agreed to settle a civil lawsuit. See omnystudio.com/listener for p...
Aug 05, 2023•16 min•Ep. 159
Rudy Giuliani is no longer contesting that he made claims after the 2020 election about two Fulton County election workers were false. We also look at the similarities and differences between the federal and state probes into election interference by former President Donald Trump and his allies like Giuliani. Plus, UPS and the Teamsters union struck a deal to avoid a strike of some 340,000 thousand workers. And Atlanta remembers former City Council President and Fulton County Superior Court Judg...
Jul 29, 2023•16 min•Ep. 158
We look at the impact of Georgia's restrictive abortion law, which went into effect one year ago this week. Former President Donald Trump's lawyers are renewing a bid to disqualify the Fulton County District Attorney from prosecuting him. Plus, opponents of Atlanta's controversial Public Safety Training Center are launching a paid operation to get the issue on the ballot. And we explore how Georgia's non-union workers in the film and tv industry are feeling the impact of the actors and writers s...
Jul 22, 2023•16 min•Ep. 157
Lawyers for former President Donald Trump have filed new motions to disqualify Fulton County's District Attorney from investigating him. Meantime, the Department of Justice says it is investigating the Fulton County Sheriff's Office for civil rights violations at the county jail. Plus, Georgia’s massive film and TV industry is bracing for the impacts of an historic double strike. And the University of Georgia's Athletics Association and a former star football player are facing a lawsuit over a d...
Jul 15, 2023•16 min•Ep. 156
Labor talks between UPS, the world's largest parcel delivery company, and the Teamsters, the union representing some 340,000 employees, broke down this week. Plus, Fulton County officials say it could take a couple weeks to figure what caused one of the county's wastewater treatment plants to malfunction, pumping millions of gallons of partially treated sewage into the Chattahoochee River, one of Georgia's most important waterways. And we hear about an Atlanta nonprofit that helps disabled entre...
Jul 08, 2023•16 min•Ep. 155
Four families are suing to block Georgia’s restrictions on gender-affirming care for transgender children, which took effect July 1. And Atlanta community health advocates slammed Wellstar Health System leaders during an in-person public hearing in Augusta this week as Wellstar eyes a merger with Augusta University Health System (after shuttering facilities in Atlanta). Plus, recent neo-Nazi demonstrations in Georgia have brought new attention to proposed state legislation on anti-Semitism. We a...
Jul 01, 2023•16 min•Ep. 154
Dekalb's District Attorney pulls out of the multijurisdictional prosecution of more than 40 cases involving opponents of the proposed Atlanta Public Safety Training Center. The state is now prosecuting solo. We hear from DA Sherry Boston on why she removed her office. Plus, Georgia has one of the most restrictive abortion laws in the country. We look at the impact from the Dobbs decision here, one year later. And Fulton County's Sherriff is threatening to sue the county board of commissioners ov...
Jun 24, 2023•16 min•Ep. 153
State lawmakers are again looking at Georgia's tax credit for the television and film industry, which has made the area a major player in entertainment. And the head Atlanta's Grady Health System says it is still operating over capacity as the only Level 1 Trauma center in the city is seeing an increase in patients following the closure of two Wellstar facilities. Plus, a long-running disagreement over sea turtles between Georgia environmental activists and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is of...
Jun 17, 2023•16 min•Ep. 152
After a marathon meeting, Atlanta's City Council approved more than $30 million to help build the proposed Public Safety Training Center in South Dekalb County. Opponents are now gathering signatures to get the measure on the ballot. And we bring you our "Beyond Pride" series, a look at LGBTQ+ issues in Georgia, including a possible new HIV vaccine and the soon-to-be enforced medical care on transgender kids. Plus, we examine the future of nuclear power after the first new reactor built in the U...
Jun 10, 2023•16 min•Ep. 151
Three people who were arrested for their involvement in helping protesters of Atlanta’s proposed Public Safety Training Center were granted bond on Friday. The three were arrested and charged with charity fraud and money laundering. And the debt ceiling vote along with the upcoming Georgia GOP convention this month is highlighting big differences in the party. Plus, the first new nuclear reactor built in the U.S. in decades is now at full power in Georgia. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy...
Jun 03, 2023•16 min•Ep. 150
Atlanta City Council's Finance Committee passed a move to give the Atlanta Police Foundation, a private nonprofit, more than $30 million to help fund the controversial Public Safety Training Center. It now heads to the full Council in June. Georgia-based Daniel Defense faces a lawsuit from parents of kids killed in the Uvalde, Texas school shooting one year ago. Plus, attorneys for the family of a man, who died at the Fulton County Jail covered in bed bugs, say the findings of an independent aut...
May 27, 2023•16 min•Ep. 149
After seven hours of hearing public opposition to the Public Safety Training Center in South Dekalb County, Atlanta's City Council introduced legislation that would fund about one-third of the controversial $90 million dollar facility. Plus, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis starts scheduling for something "significant" in August. This as we wait for possible indictments against former President Donald Trump and his allies for attempting to overturn Georgia's 2020 election results. See...
May 20, 2023•16 min•Ep. 148
A week after a mass shooting in Atlanta's midtown, Georgia Democrats demanded Republican Governor Brian Kemp call a special legislative session to address gun violence. The federal government is proposing new rules to limit climate pollution from power plants as Georgia's largest utility is beginning to phase out coal. And the home of the U.S. Army's Infantry School officially has a new name following a ceremony at what is now Fort Moore in West Georgia. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy i...
May 13, 2023•16 min•Ep. 147
A mass shooting in midtown Atlanta on Wednesday left one person dead and four others injured. The suspect was captured after nearly an eight-hour manhunt. Fulton District Attorney tells WABE she is closely watching the New York case against former President Donald Trump as she weighs a possible indictment for election meddling. And immigrant advocates are again calling for the federal government to shut down Stewart Detention Center in Southwest Georgia after another death at the facility. Plus,...
May 06, 2023•16 min•Ep. 146
The first two medical cannabis stores in Georgia are now open in Macon and Marietta. Grady Health System opens two new clinics along I-20 to account for the closing of the Atlanta Medical Center. The developer for Atlanta's $90-million police and firefighter training center says a soft opening for the controversial project is now scheduled for the end of next year. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Apr 29, 2023•16 min•Ep. 145
The family of a 35-year-old man who died at the Fulton County jail says his death highlights the need for the facility to be shut down and replaced. And immigrants in Georgia who face unsafe work conditions are now able to secure visa protections through a new federal rule. Plus, we look at a new rule proposed by the Biden Administration that would likely conflict with a Georgia High School Association policy on transgender student athletes. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Apr 15, 2023•16 min•Ep. 143
As the the media, politicians, protesters and others descended on New York for the plea of former President Donald Trump on the 34 counts he faces, we look at what could happen here if Fulton County's district attorney indicts him too. Plus, a diversion center in Atlanta is set to offer an alternative to jail. And we find out more about how parents and guardians from Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras, who have immigrated or were resettled in metro Atlanta, might be able to bring their children...
Apr 08, 2023•16 min•Ep. 142
We look at the last day of the legislative session when lawmakers did not bring scores of bills to a final floor vote. Plus, Georgia's Supreme Court hears oral arguments over the state's restrictive abortion law. And a WABE protagonist in a major series gets the city of Atlanta's highest honor. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Apr 01, 2023•16 min•Ep. 141
Lawmakers blocked transgender kids from receiving some gender-affirming care in Georgia. We hear from 15-year-old Adam, who was set to have top surgery. Some Dekalb County residents say the blighted areas are out of control and are calling on officials to clean it up. Plus, environmental groups say they plan to sue the federal government over a big, wrinkly reptile that lives in south Georgia. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Mar 25, 2023•16 min•Ep. 140
Thursday marked two years since eight people, most of them women of Asian descent, were killed in Fulton and Cherokee Counties. One man is serving life in prison for the Cherokee murders and awaits a death penalty trial for the killings in Fulton. We hear remembrances of the victims and calls for action to protect the AAPI community from future attacks. Plus, former Clayton County Sheriff Victor is sent to prison, Grady opens a new unit in-part to deal with the closing of AMC and Atlanta's Morri...
Mar 18, 2023•16 min•Ep. 139
Georgia officials are charging more people with domestic terrorism after a demonstration at the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center in South Dekalb County turns violent. It's a relatively new charge for such actions. And in a Northeast Georgia hospital, medical experts are trying a new way to treat those battling addiction in what could be the future of such treatment. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mar 11, 2023•16 min•Ep. 138
