Next month is National Poverty Awareness Month for 2024, so we’re going to get right to the point of the headline: the percentage of people living in poverty in Cobb…
by Casey Quinlan, Georgia Recorder [This article first appeared in the Georgia Recorder, republished with permission] December 23, 2022 Of the 20 states that have failed to raise the minimum…
Callie Freitag, University of Washington and Heather D. Hill, University of Washington [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] CC BY-ND In the United States, children are…
The Southern Poverty Law Center, best known for tracking white supremacist and other hate groups, issued a statement on the spread of COVID-19 in the Cobb County School District. The…
In this article I’ll present a color-coded interactive map that contains data on the poverty rate in Cobb County within each census tract. If you want to skip the explanations…
On its face, Osborne High School appears to be “failing,” based on criteria set by the state and the Cobb County School District. With a population of 2,200 students who…
On the Sunday morning of MLK Weekend, lines of cars wrapped a mile or so from Austell-Powder Springs Road to Clay Road, heading toward South Cobb’s Threadmill Mall for the…
by Thomas Klassen, York University, Canada, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] Political assassinations in the United States have a long and disturbing history. The attempted…
by Stanley Dunlap, Georgia Recorder [This article first appeared in the Georgia Recorder, republished with permission] July 12, 2024 A predominantly Black neighborhood in Hancock County has a second chance…
Image above generated by DALL-E from ChatGPT The City of Marietta will host a grand opening of the new Marietta Fire Training Tower on Wednesday, July 10, 2024, from 4:00…