We look at the results from the some of the high-profile primary races. Plus, the trial of the Atlanta rapper Young Thug has become the longest in state history, and it is snarling court cases for others waiting justice. And we look at a program to help those advance in the EV sector that got a lot of hype and set expectations perhaps unrealistically high. Also, we profile Andre 3000 at the Atlanta Jazz Festival. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
May 25, 2024•16 min•Ep. 200
Both the judge and district attorney in Georgia's criminal case against former President Donald Trump are on the ballot and facing challengers in the primary. Plus, longtime Congressman David Scott is facing multiple challengers claiming he doesn't represent the changing district. And we get reaction from on-campus at Morehouse where President Joe Biden is set to give the commencement address on Sunday amid expected protests. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
May 18, 2024•16 min•Ep. 199
The Georgia Court of Appeals has granted oral arguments after former President Donald Trump appealed Fulton District Attorney Fani Willis staying on his criminal case. This could mean the trial does not begin this year. Meantime, we examine both Willis and the judge in the case facing election challengers for their seats. Plus, a student referendum on Emory University's President Greg Fenves resulted in a "no confidence" decision. And we look at what researchers are trying to do to help curb Geo...
May 11, 2024•16 min•Ep. 198
Protests continue on campuses around the country including at Emory. We hear more about the demonstrations that garnered national attention are playing out. Plus, New legislation in Georgia bans so-called foreign agents from buying certain land in the state. Lawmakers say this champions national security, but critics warn the legislation is reminiscent of old, discriminatory laws against Asian people. Also, Georgia Power says its second new nuclear reactor at Plant Vogtle is officially online. A...
May 04, 2024•16 min•Ep. 197
Authorities arrested more than a dozen people at Emory University at a demonstration of the Israel-Hamas war after a clash with police. Plus, the U.S. Supreme Court is now weighing whether former President Donald Trump enjoys absolute immunity from criminal prosecution, a decision that could impact if and when Trump will face trial in Georgia for alleged election interference. Plus, we hear from the U.S. Secretary of Labor on unions targeting the South for expanding their organizing efforts. See...
Apr 27, 2024•16 min•Ep. 196
Students at public institutions will pay more next year after officials with the University System of Georgia voted to increase tuition. And Georgia Power is set to expand a natural gas power plant after state regulators approved the plan that critics say sets the state back when it comes to fighting climate change. Plus, lawmakers deny those wrongfully convicted in Georgia of compensation for at least another year as justice gets political. Also, Kennesaw State gets ready to jump into big-time ...
Apr 20, 2024•16 min•Ep. 195
A federal judge has upheld Georgia’s procedures for verifying the citizenship of voters. Voting rights groups argued in a long-running lawsuit that new citizens face discriminatory hurdles when registering to vote. Plus, Atlanta-based Norfolk Southern has agreed to pay a $600 million settlement related to the disastrous train derailment in eastern Ohio. And MARTA station at Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson Airport has closed for refurbishment for the next several weeks. See omnystudio.com/listener for...
Apr 13, 2024•16 min•Ep. 194
A judge this week denied a motion by former President Donald Trump and others to dismiss their Georgia criminal charges on First Amendment grounds. Trump and 14 others are under indictment for allegedly conspiring to overturn the 2020 election result in Georgia. And an investigative collaboration between WABE and Propublica shows when housing is a reason for kids to be taken into foster care, it will take parents longer to get their children back than other reasons like substance use or unresolv...
Apr 06, 2024•16 min•Ep. 193
The WABE team breaks down some of the biggest legislation that lived and died at the Capitol this week as officials wrap up the legislative session. Plus, the three men who murdered Ahmaud Arbery are appealing their federal hate crimes changes. And an Atlanta grant program offers some seniors help paying their property taxes. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mar 30, 2024•16 min•Ep. 192
Georgia lawmakers approved a controversial education bill (SB 233) this week that would give parents with students in low-performing schools more than $6,000 to go toward private school or at-home study. Former President Donald Trump and other defendants can appeal a judge’s decision allowing District Attorney Fani Willis to remain on the Georgia election interference case. Republican lawmakers in Georgia are advancing a bill that would require police to help identify undocumented immigrants and...
Mar 23, 2024•16 min•Ep. 191
A judge on Friday ruled Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis can remain on the Georgia election interference case now that special prosecutor Nathan Wade has resigned. Several defendants, including former President Donald Trump, accused Willis of a conflict stemming from a romantic relationship with Wade. We also have a remembrance of the eight people--including six women of Asian descent --killed three years ago March 16 in mass shootings across metro Atlanta. Plus, the Gold Dome Scrambl...
Mar 16, 2024•16 min•Ep. 190
Both President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump are in Georgian on Saturday campaigning ahead of the primary and more importantly, setting the foundation for November. Meantime, Biden faced heckling from controversial Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene at his State of the Union address. Plus, Electric vehicle maker Rivian is pausing construction on its $5 billion EV factory an hour east of Atlanta. And the U.S. Department of Education says as of 2023, more than 1.6 million G...
Mar 09, 2024•16 min•Ep. 189
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Mar 02, 2024•16 min•Ep. 188
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation reports police shot fewer people in 2023 than the record high from the year before, but the percentage of those who died stayed the same. We take a deep dive on the numbers and what some are trying to do to lower them. Plus, Georgia lawmakers are considering a bill that would give parents more insight into what their children check out from school libraries. And we examine the South Carolina GOP primary and what lessons can be learned as Georgia's primary is j...
Feb 24, 2024•16 min•Ep. 187
A superior court judge plans to schedule a day for arguments in coming weeks before ruling on whether Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis should be disqualified from the Georgia election interference case against former President Donald Trump and his allies. She finished two days of testimony on Friday. Judge Scott McAfee must determine if a romantic relationship between Willis and prosecutor Nathan Wade created a disqualifying conflict. And state lawmakers advanced a bill this week aime...
Feb 17, 2024•16 min•Ep. 186
The Georgia House overwhelmingly passed Governor Brian Kemp’s proposed $37.5 billion budget. Plus, Georgia Republican senators moved through a bill to prohibit using QR codes to tabulate election ballots. Also, criminal justice advocates say a bill headed to Kemp's desk is a step back from years of reform. And Georgia lawmakers passed a bill backed by Kemp that would make it harder to organize labor unions across the state. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Feb 10, 2024•16 min•Ep. 185
A bill to legalize sports betting passed in the Georgia state senate but will now require a constitutional amendment. Plus, Senate Bill 63 aims to crack down on crime by banning judges from ordering what's called an "unsecured judicial release" for people accused of a variety of crimes. And Governor Brian Kemp has approved a controversial new map for the upcoming Cobb County school board elections. Also, we look at the hundreds of millions of dollars in opioid settlement money coming into Georgi...
Feb 03, 2024•16 min•Ep. 184
A bill defining anti-Semitism cleared Georgia's House and Senate Thursday, despite concerns about free speech. Georgia House Speaker Jon Burns rolled out a Republican legislative package this week that includes tax relief for homeowners, parents and on income taxes. Plus, a new investigation from WABE and ProPublica shows how the Georgia Division of Family and Children Services uses housing as a key reason for children entering foster care but has provided few resources to help. Also, Snowmagedd...
Jan 27, 2024•16 min•Ep. 183
Opponents of Atlanta's controversial Public Safety Training Center call for action and the release of more information on the activist who was shot and killed by state troopers at the controversial site one year ago on Thursday. Plus, Governor Brian Kemp's proposed budget includes a four-percent cost of living adjustment for all state employees and even larger raises for child protection workers that manage more than 10,000 kids in Georgia's beleaguered foster care system. And Atlanta's Spelman ...
Jan 20, 2024•16 min•Ep. 182
Governor Brian Kemp had a busy week. In his State of the State address he announced spending priorities of the Georgia's massive surplus, which includes possible tax breaks and increased safety measures. Earlier in the week, Kemp took aim at the labor movement, that has picked up some steam in Georgia, with this legislative session possibly seeing legislation to make unionizing more difficult in the state. Plus, the trial of a Public Safety Training Center protester is delayed as attorneys ask f...
Jan 13, 2024•16 min•Ep. 181
Rudy Giuliani is declaring bankruptcy just days after a judge ordered he pay $148 million in damages for defaming two Fulton County election workers. And Georgia Power rates will increase by about nine dollars per customer when the last new nuclear reactor at Plant Vogtle goes online next year. Plus, Governor Brian Kemp says Georgia's public educators and state employees will get a one-time supplement of a thousand dollars in the coming weeks. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Dec 23, 2023•16 min•Ep. 180
A jury in Washington D.C. is ordering Rudy Giuliani to pay $148 million in damages to two former Fulton County election workers for lies he spread about them after the 2020 election. Also, We look at several angles of the planned and controversial Public Safety Training Center in Atlanta, including whether opponents have the signatures to put it on the ballot. And the civil rights and religious groups that first sued over Georgia's political maps are now challenging the revised maps approved las...
Dec 16, 2023•16 min•Ep. 179
Georgia Governor Brian Kemp has signed new congressional districts into law that maintain state Republicans advantage in Washington. The maps could still face a big challenge ahead. Plus, stats show an increase in the number of people living unsheltered in Dekalb County, but a new partnership is trying to help. And Fulton County Commissioners are still mulling over the $1.7 billion price tag of building a new jail, as they make plans to potentially issue a bond package to fund it. Also, jump in ...
Dec 09, 2023•16 min•Ep. 178
Former first lady Rosalynn Carter was buried in Plains on Wednesday after a memorial and tribute in Atlanta on Monday and Tuesday. Plus, family members and advocates are calling for accountability more than a week after the body camera footage was released of the fatal encounter between a now former Atlanta police officer and a 62-year-old church deacon. And an activist group is offering help for some of the 1.6 million Georgians with student loans and are urging the federal government follows s...
Dec 02, 2023•16 min•Ep. 176
Fulton County's District Attorney released body camera footage from a former Atlanta police officer who repeatedly tased a church deacon, who died over a dispute for a traffic ticket. Plus, Georgia’s state Supreme Court is refusing to approve rules for a new commission to discipline and remove state prosecutors. And we remember former first lady Rosalynn Carter, who died Sunday at 96. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Nov 25, 2023•16 min•Ep. 175
Metro Atlanta saw very low turnout for municipal elections. Plus, as Ohio voters decided to protect abortion access, some Georgia lawmakers question if voters here should have that opportunity. And some coaches and students at HBCUs saw recruiting internationally for some sports does not meet the mission of the schools. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Nov 11, 2023•16 min•Ep. 173
DFCS Commissioner Candice Broce allegedly asked judges to consider placing developmental disabled foster kids in a juvenile detention center "for a few days" in order to deal with a lack of caregivers. Broce said in a statement that the judges testimony to the Senate committee lacked context and accuracy. And this week marked one year since since Atlanta Medical Center in the city's Old Fourth Ward closed its doors for good as health advocates and city officials continue to push for a new hospit...
Nov 04, 2023•16 min•Ep. 172
Georgia's Supreme Court ruled this week the state's ban on abortion at around six weeks of pregnancy will remain in place. Meantime a federal judge ruled Georgia lawmakers must redraw the state’s political maps for Congress and the state legislature before the 2024 election. Plus, we see how early childhood care centers are coping with a huge understaffing problem generated from the pandemic. And a fourth defendant in Fulton County's massive RICO case against former President Donald Trump (and o...
Oct 28, 2023•16 min•Ep. 171
Lawyers Sidney Powell and Kenneth Cheseboro pleaded guilty this week in Fulton County's election meddling case that includes former President Donald Trump as a defendant. We also hear from Georgia U.S. Senators Warnock and Ossoff who are among lawmakers weighing in on the Israel-Hamas war. Fulton County Commissioners voted this week to take back more than $2 million previously allotted to the sheriff's office for new technology meant to improve conditions at the county jail, where 10 people have...
Oct 21, 2023•16 min•Ep. 170
WABE obtained the completed autopsies for those who died at Fulton County Jail and found half suffered from issues like schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. The 2023 Atlanta Pride Festival will feature more than 80 sponsors and businesses from all across the metro. We look at the business of visibility. And Atlanta police are increasing security around places of worship as the Israel-Gaza war continues and protests and demonstrations do as well. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information...
Oct 14, 2023•16 min•Ep. 169
