by John McCosh | Sep 17, 2025 | News, Weltner Award
Richard Belcher’s distinguished career as a TV journalist was defined by dogged pursuit of investigative stories bolstered by public records. Over his 50 years of reporting, Belcher consistently broke the big story, digging in when government officials tried to stymie...
by K B | Nov 14, 2022 | News
By Richard T. Griffiths It was called the Hope Act. In 2019, the Georgia Legislature passed and the governor signed a law allowing medical patients access to cannabis oil. The law was strict: According to rules of a newly established Georgia Access to Medical Cannabis...
by K B | Dec 12, 2019 | News
By Richard T. Griffiths Here’s what happens to communities when local journalism collapses: Taxpayers pay more and know less. When local newspapers shut down, county payrolls swell, jumping $1.4 million within a year of a newspaper closing. Taxpayers pay more in...
by K B | Jul 18, 2019 | News
By Richard T. Griffiths Let’s all sing together: “Let the sunshine in!” As a group of us huddled in a conference room preparing a sixth edition of our Red Book, the lyrics of a song from the 1967 musical Hair bubbled up in my consciousness, with its warning about how,...
by K B | May 8, 2019 | News
Next open government training May 15 at Atlanta Press Club A Decatur County lawman laments the time he spends redacting police body-camera video to protect the privacy of children and other bystanders. A newly elected Georgia mayor wonders why personnel records are...
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