
Lily Oppenheimer
Morning Edition Producer at WABE-FM (Atlanta, GA)
Morning Edition producer @wabenews. ATL from Miami @wlrn. Salsa dancer. Pitbull mom. Lover of mango season & 📖 Mizzou🐯Send tips to [email protected]
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4 days ago |
wabe.org | Lily Oppenheimer
Days before she was supposed to take her final exams, Dalton State College student Ximena Arias-Cristobal was mistakenly pulled over by a city police officer. During that traffic stop, Dalton police discovered Arias-Cristobal was undocumented. She was brought to the U.S. with her family at only 4 years old. The 19-year-old was turned over to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to be held at the privately-run Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Georgia.
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1 week ago |
wabe.org | Lily Oppenheimer
Cybersecurity systems, routers, servers, switches: All of these whirring gadgets are storing and managing mass amounts of crucial information in data centers popping up across Georgia. The centers are already using millions of square feet right here in metro Atlanta. That’s as companies rely more on AI and digital interactions with customers. With that need comes a now-explosive industry.
‘A sense of real identification with this pope’: Atlanta Catholics on first Sunday with Pope Leo XIV
3 weeks ago |
wabe.org | Lily Oppenheimer
Catholics across Atlanta are reacting to the first Sunday blessing from Pope Leo XIV, the first selected from the U.S.Roughly 100,000 people gathered in St. Peter’s Square in the Vatican City to watch his address on Mother’s Day. Pope Leo told the crowd he was there to deliver a message of peace, and turned to the world’s leaders, chanting, “Never again war!”Pope Leo also called for lasting peace in Ukraine, humanitarian aid to be provided to the civilians in Gaza and a ceasefire.
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4 weeks ago |
wabe.org | Lily Oppenheimer
As Mother’s Day approaches, ESPN anchor and Atlanta author Jenn Hildreth shines a powerful light on motherhood and leadership in journalism and sports.
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1 month ago |
wabe.org | Lily Oppenheimer
Georgia State Patrol officials are defending the high-speed pursuit that ended in a deadly crash in Little Five Points this week. GSP tells WABE they will ensure the driver who fled deputies will be prosecuted to the fullest extent that Georgia law allows. GSP tells WABE that the incident that killed 19-year-old Cooper Schoenke of DeKalb County is nothing short of heartbreaking. A car being pursued by a state trooper sped through a stoplight and collided with Schoenke’s vehicle Monday.
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