The Brief from WABE

Republican activist Kelvin King, the husband of a controversial State Election Board member, says he’s running for Secretary State of Georgia; The highly-anticipated trial of the father of the accused Apalachee High School shooter will be rescheduled; Unionized workers and labor advocates across the South are rallying for support. 

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Advocates and lawyers for a Spanish-language journalist fighting deportation from Georgia aren't mincing words about what they believe is retaliation for his work; Atlanta beverage giant Coca-Cola says it will make a new product this fall that is made with U.S. cane sugar; MARTA is without a permanent leader after CEO Collie Greenwood announced he was stepping down, but some civic leaders and transit advocates had already soured on his leadership.

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Concerns are growing over the prolonged detention of a Georgia-based, Spanish-language journalist by federal immigration authorities; Immigration and Customs Enforcement will use medicaid enrollment data to look for people without legal status; and a local scientist's analysis of the meteorite that streaked across the Atlanta sky last month. 

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Congress has agreed to President Donald Trump’s request to rescind more than 9 billion dollars in previously appropriated funding for international development and public broadcasting; The state of Georgia is fining BioLab for a chemical fire last September that caused evacuations in Conyers and several days of shelter in place orders; and WABE health reporter Jess Mador takes a look at how work requirements for Medicaid are going in Georgia, now that the policy is set to be expanded.

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MARTA head abruptly resigns; A key weather office needs qualified people (if you know any); and a former Clayton County Sheriff's uphill climb. 

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Peter Hubbard advances as Democratic nominee the state's PSC; Trump claims credit for cane sugar's return to Coca-Cola (unconfirmed); and Fulton Commission Chair Rob Pitts underscores the power of boycotts. 

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Compromise has Ga Power extending renewables, prolonging coal fired plants; Trump loan provision for medical students likely to hurt Georgia; and the latest sex trafficking civil verdict has motel paying former victim $40-million. 

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Georgia GOP leader accused of $140-million Ponzi scheme: "Sorry;" Low-Key COVID; and how much above the average income Atlantans will have to find in the couch seat cusions to afford an average house.  

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A Georgia-based, Spanish-language journalist is back in an Immigration and Customs detention facility; A prominent Georgia Republican is being accused of running a 140-million-dollar Ponzi scheme; and we hear from the founder of Campus, an online two-year college founded by an Atlanta-native, whose backers include Shaquille O'Neal and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. 

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Delta Air Lines revises its financial outlook; Gov. Brian Kemp joins calls on Hamas to release hostage; and Lt. Gov. Burt Jones has a hefty coffer for his gubernatorial run, but mostly thanks to his personal bank account.  

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