Grant Blankenship
Grant came to public media after a career spent in newspaper photojournalism. As an all platform journalist he seeks to wed the values of public radio storytelling and the best of photojournalism online.
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New research documents what many have long believed: that heat can lead to extreme violence in prisons. Some now want cooling zones or air conditioning installed to help staff and those incarcerated.
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The Department of Justice is investigating whether chronic understaffing at Georgia state prisons has led to increased violence and death among those incarcerated — as well as staff.
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Georgia's reported numbers don't show a COVID-19 surge when predicted, despite being one of the earliest states to re-open. Experts think racial disparities and test problems are the reason why.
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For years, there has been on again, off again conversation in Macon about moving the Confederate statue at the foot of Cotton Avenue. Now is a...
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It’s finally Election Day in Georgia, where voters will make their choices in the presidential and general primaries. More than 1.3 million voters have...
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Last week, in defending his decision to allow Georgia’s economy to reopen, Gov. Brian Kemp cited some milestones: Reductions in hospitalizations,...
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How do you design a building in the South to cope with 100 degrees in the summer and sub-freezing temperatures in the winter without pumping more...
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A federal appeals court is set to weigh in on four African-American killings in Georgia in 1946. The FBI investigated and dozens of people testified. Now a historian wants access the sealed records.
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The South is the nation's leader in setting small wildfires on purpose, to prevent massive ones like those out West. One big reason is that so much land in the South is privately owned, not public.
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Decades-old pecan trees in Georgia were among the victims when Hurricane Michael swept through the state last week. This year's harvest will be slim and it will take years to recover.