The Brief from WABE

A week before the Georgia Primary sees one GOP gubernatorial candidate pumping the brakes on campaign spending; A Democratic congresswoman gets personal in the abortion debate; and tag along for our version of House Hunters ATL (er, ATC?).

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Demonstrators who’ve camped out for months in protest of a planned police training center in Southeast Atlanta clash with cops; Heritage? Hate? Either way, students at a North Georgia high school sue the district claiming there’s a decidedly divisive double standard; and Georgia’s ports are all like, “What global supply chain slowdown inflation pandemic-y thing are you talking about? We’re good.”  

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Georgia's 7th District: Three women. Two incumbents. One seat; Atlanta's mayor finds the money to move residents from dilapidated Forest Cove; and the new president of Southface Institute has something to tell you about sustainability, no matter who you are.

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With one week left for early voting in Georgia's 2022 primary election cycle, Gov. Brian Kemp heads to Elijay to make the case why he and his opponent (and used-to-be bud)--former U.S. Sen. David Perdue--are like apples and oranges; The case against Young Thug, Gunna, and two dozen or so others indicted for racketeering this week is a 'stretch,' says WABE legal analyst Page Pate; and forever's gonna start Sunday night--it's a total eclipse of moon, Atlanta. [Turn around, bright eyes.]

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Hyundai to Rivian: "Anything you can do I can do better; I can do anything better than you;" To support the state for the next year, Georgia officials will spend $2,796.29-ish for every man, woman and child in its borders; and why coastal Georgia residents are once bitten, twice shy three times over again. Spoiler: the answer is hurricanes. 

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COVID is a creepin' again; a Spelman graduate becomes the first Black woman to hold a seat on the Federal Reserve Board; and DeKalb County's school board applies a Band-Aid after the state's top education official calls for a full organ transplant.

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Rapper Young Thug is living up to his name if you believe Fulton County's DA, who charged him, rapper Gunna, and more than two dozen others on running a crime syndicate in the city; two Georgians who bragged about their parts in the Jan. 6th insurrection in DC will spend some time incarcerted for their parts; and the tech industry's mark on metro Atlanta isn't likely to dissipate anytime soon.

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Police try to understand why two separate adults fired at children waiting for their school bus this morning; Early voting is hot in Georgia, with more GOP early birds showing up than Dems; and...How do you like all that inexpensive, carbonless energy those two new nuclear reactors are churning out from Georgia’s Plant Vogtle? Oh. Wait. Six years past due and now more than double the original $14-billion price tag, that's not what's happening. At all. 

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MTG gets a WIN from the SOS; Primary candidates must differentiate themselves if they hope to move on to the general election, and this week, differentiate they did; and a mother of a trans daughter tells why she hopes she never has to tell her kid why she can't play lacrosse on her high school's team.

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Iowa Shmiowa. Bring that first Presidential primary down here, y'all; how loosening restrictions on raw milk in Georgia could keep people from overdosing; and why biologists say it's a good thing there's SO much turtle tickle happening along the coast.

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