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COVID-19 may have extracted a heavier toll on nursing home patients and workers than Georgia has recognized, according to data released Thursday by the federal government. Read more
For the first time since the coronavirus pandemic swept into southwest Georgia in early March, Albany-based Phoebe Putney Health System has no COVID-19 patients left in its main hospital, the system announced Thursday. Read more
Go behind the scenes with Momonoki to see how the Japanese restaurant is coping with the coronavirus pandemic.
The state Department of Labor is behind on paying unemployment
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I was a Marine Corps brat, and in 1962, my family was stationed at Parris Island, South Carolina, where we got to know the Conroy family. Years later, Pat Conroy would write “The Great Santini” in a tiny office at my father’s law firm in Atlanta. He invited us to book signings and movie prem…
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Since Edward Snowden became a household name in 2013 for revealing massive surveillance programs being run routinely by the NSA, he’s been a flashpoint of disagreement. In June of that year, Snowden shared with journalists Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras, Barton Gellman, and Ewen MacAskill th…
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28 Summers is novelist Elin Hilderbrand’s 26th book, and since her debut in 2008, she’s garnered a large and devoted fan following. By now those fans know exactly what to expect from a new Elin Hilderbrand novel: a light, summery narrative tone —the books often appear in time to be stuffed i…
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The title of renowned Lincoln scholar Harold Holzer’s new book is not The Presidents and the Press. There’s an antagonism in the title’s “vs” that has been reflected in reality since both the free press and the presidency were enshrined in the United States Constitution.
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Way back when yours truly was a young southern man, I moved to the Pacific Northwest to live and work. Let me make a disclosure here: My father taught me to take nothing for granted and to make sure I understand what I am doing and why I am doing it. After several months on my new job, the b…
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At least a decade before the Civil War, serious scholars wondered and wrote about the American South. I doubt that anyone has cataloged every one of those efforts. In addition to the scholarly works, novelists, short story writers, poets and pundits of all sorts have written about or harangu…
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