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Thursday marks the end of the legislative session at the Georgia state capitol. GPB capitol reporter Lisa Rayam gives us a recap of which bills died, and which will proceed to the governor’s desk.

One of the musical acts performing this week as part of the Atlanta Film Festival is the New Orleans group, Tank and the Bangas . The band won this year’s NPR Tiny Desk Contest . Tarriona “Tank” Ball spoke with GPB’s Sean Powers ahead of the group’s show on Thursday night . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWcnPDkUhoY

SunTrust Park opens with an exhibition game this Friday. The road to a new home for the Atlanta Braves has been a long and expensive one. The estimated cost of the project is now more than $1 billion. We talked about the massive undertaking with GPB senior sports correspondent Jon Nelson. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDO4GyOpOxU&t

Sun Trust Park opens with an exhibition game this Friday. The road to a new home for the Atlanta Braves has been a long and expensive one. The estimated cost of the project is now more than $1 billion. We talk about the massive undertaking with GPB senior sports correspondent Jon Nelson. The Atlanta Braves are banking on the move to SunTrust Park in Cobb County to galvanize the fan base. But rising costs for the construction project, along with several money saving cuts to traffic-reducing

Ghosts aren’t just people who were once alive. They can also be entire towns – thriving communities that now only exist in memory, historical documents or the remnants of old buildings. We learned more about some of these communities from Lisa Russell, author of the book, “Lost Towns of North Georgia.” When a person dies, a part of them can remain with the living. That’s the case for one spirit in Savannah at the Sorrel Weed House Museum. We get a ghost story from the museum’s operation manager,

A doctor who kills people intentionally, that’s the subject of a new documentary film called “The Sandman.” Dr. Carlo Musso has been helping the state of Georgia execute inmates by lethal injection since 2003. The film explores his justifications for doing no harm as a physician, and serving as an executioner. We speak with the filmmaker Lauren Knapp.

Last month, two grocery stores shuttered in downtown Augusta. Both of them - a Whole Foods and a Kroger - cited a lack of customers as the reason. The Kroger was the only full-service store within a two-mile radius of downtown. These closures have made it much more difficult to find affordable, healthy food there. Joining us is the operator of a food pantry in Augusta, Christy Cunningham. She’s the Executive Director of the Downtown Cooperative Church Ministries. We also speak with Garth Graham,

Last month, two grocery stores shuttered in downtown Augusta. Both of them - a Whole Foods and a Kroger - cited a lack of customers as the reason. The Kroger was the only full-service store within a two-mile radius of downtown. These closures have made it much more difficult to find affordable, healthy food there. Joining us is the operator of a food pantry in Augusta, Christy Cunningham. She’s the Executive Director of the Downtown Cooperative Church Ministries. We also speak with Garth Graham,

The neighborhoods surrounding Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport do not look like they once did a few decades ago. But unlike the airport itself, most haven’t grown. As the airport has slowly become one of, if not the busiest airport in the world, the communities around it have shrunk or disappeared completely.

The Breakroom gang joins host Celeste Headlee to weigh in on the week's news. The panel includes Georgia State University professor Hector Fernandez, Bee Nguyen of Athena’s Warehouse, Ed Sohn of Thomson Reuters, and Natalie Dale of the Georgia Department of Transportation. Breakroom Topics: 1) During his recent trip to Asia, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson warned America might pursue military options if North Korea keeps pushing to get nuclear weapons. Are you worried about war with North