Skidaway Abigails

09/02/2025

https://georgiarecorder.com/2025/08/29/a-fractured-elections-board-presents-competing-wishlists-to-georgia-house-elections-committee/?emci=e46ed59f-0585-f011-b484-6045bdeb7413&emdi=dc612db9-fc87-f011-b484-6045bdeb7413&ceid=327039

At an elections study committee meeting, House lawmakers sought to repair the fraying relationship between the board and the secretary of state’s office.

09/02/2025

https://georgiarecorder.com/briefs/american-kids-are-less-likely-to-reach-adulthood-than-foreign-peers/?emci=e46ed59f-0585-f011-b484-6045bdeb7413&emdi=dc612db9-fc87-f011-b484-6045bdeb7413&ceid=327039

Since 2020, gun violence has been the leading cause of death for U.S. children and teens. Firearm death rates among U.S. kids have more than doubled since 2013.

Babies and children in the United States are nearly twice as likely to die before reaching adulthood compared with their peers in other wealthy countries, according to a new study. The health of U.S. children has deteriorated since the early 2000s across a range of measures, researchers from Childre...

08/28/2025

Just four other ICE field offices nationwide have posted larger arrest numbers than Atlanta.

08/28/2025

https://thecurrentga.org/2025/08/27/international-papers-departure-creates-water-challenges-opportunities/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Cast%20Net%20Thursday%2C%20Aug.%2028%2C%202025&utm_source=a869d97c8b&utm_source=All+-+The+Current&utm_campaign=bea14c844c-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_08_27_07_21&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-bea14c844c-360262826&mc_cid=bea14c844c&mc_eid=0e4ca98422

The closure of International Paper's Savannah and Liberty plants will reduce pressure on the Floridan aquifer, but could increase water costs for remaining customers in Savannah.

08/26/2025

https://georgiarecorder.com/briefs/georgia-concludes-latest-wave-of-mass-voter-registration-cancellations/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Soundings.%20Tuesday%2C%20Aug.%2026%2C%202025&utm_source=a869d97c8b&utm_source=All+-+The+Current&utm_campaign=2bbbeadaa8-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_08_22_07_46&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-2bbbeadaa8-360262826&mc_cid=2bbbeadaa8&mc_eid=0e4ca98422

One of Georgia’s largest mass voter cancellations is wrapping up as election officials seek to purge outdated registrations from the state’s voter rolls.

08/05/2025

https://thecurrentga.org/2025/08/04/georgia-ag-supports-lawsuit-challenging-savannah-gun-storage-ordinance/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=0cbfb167f0-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_08_04_11_31&utm_source=All+-+The+Current&utm_term=0_-0cbfb167f0-360262826

Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr has supported a lawsuit challenging a Savannah ordinance restricting the storage of fi****ms, arguing that it is superseded by state law and infringes on Second Amendment rights.

08/01/2025

https://georgiarecorder.com/2025/08/01/georgias-youngest-children-deserve-continuous-medicaid-coverage/?emci=6dab0ebc-576e-f011-8dc9-6045bda9d96b&emdi=62884d71-d76e-f011-8dc9-6045bda9d96b&ceid=327039

Each year, parents must renew their children’s Medicaid — a burdensome process that often leads to children losing health care coverage for months at a time. Renewal letters get lost in the mail, phone calls are missed and never returned, or verification paperwork is submitted but never processe...

07/29/2025

https://georgiarecorder.com/2025/07/28/repub/federal-judge-issues-new-order-protecting-all-planned-parenthood-clinics-from-medicaid-defunding/?emci=28c1c4bf-0f6c-f011-8dc9-6045bda9d96b&emdi=8aa31ff1-7b6c-f011-8dc9-6045bda9d96b&ceid=327039

Planned Parenthood affiliates nationwide are once again protected from a “defunding” provision passed by Congress after a federal judge in Massachusetts granted an emergency request for a new preliminary injunction. The order from U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani, appointed by former Democrati...

07/29/2025

https://thecurrentga.org/2025/07/28/chatham-savannah-school-superintendent-sets-attendance-discipline-priorities/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=6039a920a7-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_07_25_02_17&utm_source=All+-+The+Current&utm_term=0_-6039a920a7-360262826

all 36,000 students will now have free breakfast and lunch, school personnel have received raises, teachers were given $500 stipends to purchase school supplies, and more vacancies for school staff and bus drivers have been filled.

Savannah-Chatham County Public School System Superintendent Denise Watts discussed the district's priorities for the upcoming school year, including improvements to student attendance, parent involvement, discipline, and literacy.

07/14/2025

... roughly 310,000 people across Georgia are projected to lose access to health insurance by 2034. That number could rise to 750,000 if Congress allows enhanced tax credits for those insured through the Affordable Care Act to expire this year

Georgia’s health care landscape may look dramatically different in 2026. A Georgia Recorder analysis found that 45 health care facilities across 35 Georgia counties risk reducing services or closing altogether due to Medicaid spending cuts.

07/13/2025

Savannah Youth City, a nonprofit, help Savannah teens prepare themselves and their communities for potential disasters

06/07/2025

A small team of researchers responsible for keeping clinicians up to date on contraception research has been cut. Doctors say they rely on the team's guidance when advising women about contraception.