Morgan Phillips
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Athens-Clarke County
Breaking Chains: How One Georgia County Helps Inmates Get a Second Chance
It’s easy to make mistakes. It’s easy to falter under the weight of a wrong decision, and it’s easy to become burdened by the missed opportunities and the failures. In those moments, getting a second chance matters most, but if you’re an inmate, who has already been rebuked by…
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Doing Journalism
ANNOTATED: The Struggles Of Graveyard Workers During COVID-19
Riley Armant is a graduate journalism student at Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Georgia.
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Athens-Clarke County
War Was Hell, So Was the Withdrawal: Local Vietnam, Afghanistan Veterans Reflect on Their Experiences
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…
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Athens-Clarke County
The Yelp of Covid: Vigilantes Crowdsource Pandemic Safety Tips for Consumers
This article originally appeared in KHN on Oct. 21, 2021. Melissa Lee had more to deal with than funeral planning when her husband, Dan Williams, died by suicide in January. She also was faced with continuing his 1,400-member Facebook group, “Athens, GA Mask Grades 2.0,” designed to help residents of…
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COVID-19 Coverage
Lay Me Down to Rest: COVID-19’s Impact on Local Gravediggers
The jaws of the machine tear and pull at the stubborn ground like a mechanical madman. Dirt clods fall from the teeth of the machine as gravediggers force the ground to make way for another body — another COVID-19 body. This is what the gravediggers at Master Grave Service,…
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In-Depth
Remembering 9/11, Twenty Years Later: Joel Lumley
Joel Lumley, a CNC Machinist at Benchmark in Statham, Georgia “I was working at Fowler Products in Athens when it happened. It was just a normal day to start with. I was working in the office in the machine shop when somebody walked in and said an airplane had hit…