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Grant Blankenship

Georgia

Reporter and Editor at Georgia Public Broadcasting

Articles

  • 1 week ago | gpb.org | Grant Blankenship

    Students enrolled in the Job Corps program from across the country are suing the U.S. Department of Labor over plans to shut down all 99 Job Corps centers by the end of June. About 25,000 young people are enrolled in the program, which began in 1964 during the Johnson administration and by statute must serve the most vulnerable and at-risk young people.

  • 1 week ago | gpb.org | Grant Blankenship

    ALBANY, Ga. - On a recent Wednesday, a little over a week after the federal Department of Labor said it was going to shut it down, the Turner Job Corps Center in Albany, Ga., hosted what amounted to an emergency job fair. Employers were spread around the basketball court inside the center's gymnasium where the red, white and blue color scheme that began with the American flags at the front security gate carried through to the gym walls.

  • 3 weeks ago | gpb.org | Grant Blankenship

    An Immigration Customs and Enforcement processing center in South Georgia's Charlton County is set to more than double its capacity. The expansion is part of a nationwide expansion of ICE detention. The Folkston ICE Processing Center is owned by a for-profit company called The GEO Group. The company also owns the nearby D. Ray James Correctional Institute, which once operated for the federal Bureau of Prisons.

  • 3 weeks ago | gpb.org | Grant Blankenship

    The protesters moved from where they started, at the bail bond business across the street from the Bibb County Jail to the sidewalk, in the line of sight of the glass windows of the foyer of the jail's main office, when Sheriff David Davis decided to walk out to meet them. The protest was small - or maybe, at about 60 people, it was large for the middle of a Wednesday at the end of May. Thanks to an electric megaphone, it was loud.

  • 1 month ago | nowhabersham.com | Grant Blankenship

    State-mandated negotiations over how Georgia Power will generate electricity in the future have begun. At stake is how the utility will manage its forecast for an explosive demand for power or keep carbon-emitting power generation for what might turn out to be an artificial intelligence bubble. Georgia Power expects 25% more power demand by 2030 as compared with figures in the last Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) approved by Georgia’s Public Service Commission two years ago.

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