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Take a walk around your neighborhood: maybe to the closest busy intersection, maybe on the trail behind your house. What do you see?  Likely, litter. Nearly eight billion people inhabit the Earth, so it’s difficult not to become desensitized to the growing presence of chip bags, plastic bottles and cigarette…

Water pollution is just one of many environmental concerns affecting the state of Georgia. Harmful chemicals and toxic substances find their way into our lakes, streams, and oceans, jeopardizing the health of ecosystems around the state as well as human health. Even though this seems like a daunting issue, an…

    Riley Armant is a graduate journalism student at Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Georgia.  

Car bombs. Air strikes. Burning flesh. Mangled bodies. The pop of an enemy’s weapon. Rubble clinging to the streets. The city wearing the smell of death like musty perfume.   “I really don’t know how to describe it,” Shane Kozusko, an Afghanistan War veteran in Athens, said. “I mean, it’s just…

    The results from the 2021 Special Elections are in. Here is a breakdown of the SPLOST votes from each county and the mayoral races in the counties that held them. For full election results from each county, click on the links below. Athens-Clarke County Results Barrow County Results…

To further our mission to talk about process and quality in journalism, each guest curator has highlighted what he or she sees as the “don’t want to miss” pieces posted to Grady Newsource that month, along with some constructive reflection about the journalism. About This Month’s Guest Curator  Courtney Brandt…