election recount
Florida State Officials Order Manual Recount in Senatorial Race
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A federal judge calls Florida’s voting infrastructure a “laughingstock” while candidates and voters and the courts spar over what constitutes an end-point.
election recount
Georgia State Senator Arrested in Capital for Standing Up for Counting the Votes
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Fifteen people were arrested yesterday in Georgia, including State Sen. Nikema Williams, for demanding that every vote be counted.
Political Campaigns
Make No Mistake: The Governor’s Race in Georgia Isn’t Over
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It is very likely that when all the votes are counted, Georgia will require a runoff, and with Kemp having already resigned as Secretary of State, Stacey Abrams might have a less fundamentally tainted opportunity to lead that state’s government.
Georgia
Georgia City’s Residents Reject a Modern-Day Version of White Flight
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Why move when you can just carve your wealthier neighborhood out of the city and create a new one? Such was the tactic employed by residents of the Eagle Landing neighborhood of Stockbridge, a city south of Atlanta. On Election Day, however, Eagle Landing’s residents themselves rejected the tactic at the polls.
Electoral fraud and campaign hacking
Kemp and an Unauditable Voting System Meet Abrams and the People of Georgia
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Something is amiss in Georgia as a Republican secretary of state running for governor appears to willfully ignore shortfalls in the state voting system.
community foundations
A Community Foundation’s 20th Turns into a Call to Action on Poverty and Race
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In Columbus, Georgia, a city of 200,000 located midway between Macon, Georgia, and Montgomery, Alabama, a community takes a look in the mirror as the city’s community foundation turns 20.
parks and recreation
Sometimes, It Helps to Ask before You Give
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If the donation is worth $50 million, can you say no? Yes, you can!
Philanthropy
“All Roads Lead to Atlanta”—Philanthropy Can Play Critical Role in the South
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The road to achieving equity in the United States goes through Atlanta, according to a new National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy report.
Georgia
City Diversity Initiatives Do Not Prevent Displacement of Residents of Color
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While Decatur’s official policy promotes diversity, gentrification has long been a major force in Decatur, with the city losing approximately 70 percent of its Black population between 1980 and 2013.
drug rehabilitation
No Room at the Inn for Addicted People in Some States
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Stark differences in addiction treatment across state lines have led patients to travel long distances for treatment. Georgians are becoming frustrated by the burden of treating other states’ underserved patients.