Business owners and economists are skeptical that Cobb County will lose $100 million dollars after the MLB All-Star Game was moved from Atlanta to Denver in response to Georgia’s new voting laws. Find out what they really think about the MLB’s decision here.
Protests against police brutality and racial injustice took place in cities across the U.S. throughout 2020. While most of them remained peaceful they showed a broken relationship of trust between Black communities and the police in America. Many have called for justice and change after people like George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Rayshard Brooks were killed, but finding solutions to the issues leading to their deaths is more complicated than just bringing awareness to them.
When the recreation center on Georgia State’s Clarkston was limited on the sports they could offer students to abide by COVID-19 social distancing guideline. Rec center coordinator Robert Edwards and recreational specialist Jason Brown found the solution with the rising popularity of pickleball. See how the Clarkston students are gravitating to the game.
The popularity of online ordering from restaurants grew in the U.S. in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic. Many businesses closed their dining rooms to comply with social distancing guidelines. Some restaurants are still keeping their dining rooms closed and relying on more traffic from online delivery and take-out orders. The “ghost kitchen” trend is getting attention from restaurant owners and experts, with some believing the movement can be the industry’s future.
Georgia State’s E-Sports program offers more than just a group of video game leagues. See how they can create career opportunities for students at Georgia State.
The student recreation center on Georgia State’s Atlanta campus had to adjust to a new normal in the fall of 2020. Social distancing guidelines from Georgia’s Department of Health forced the rec center to operate at only 25 percent of its capacity. Staff and students react to how they are adjusting to the new guidelines.
More than seven months will have passed by the time Atlanta students return to in-person schooling. That long of a break, educational experts told GPB News, may further exacerbate the inequality gap between Black and Latino students and their white peers.
Click here to learn more about why educational experts are concerned about the lack of in-person learning contributing to the growing inequality gap in Atlanta schools here.
Georgia Tech student, Kyra Halbert-Elliot volunteered to help with COVID-19 testing while she was on summer break in Houston. Later she became sick and tested positive for the coronavirus.
Click here to read more about her experience with the coronavirus and her advice to other college students as they prepare to go back to classes this fall.
Georgia State punter and placekick Michael Hayes tested positive for COVID-19 after taking trips to Myrtle Beach and Folly Beach while he was home in South Carolina.
Click here to learn more about Hayes’ expereince after testing positive for the coronavirus and his advice to other college students during the pandemic.
With the number of COVID-19 cases increasing in Georgia, a global company with ties to Alpharetta is helping blood centers collect and distribute the blood of coronavirus survivors to try and save as many lives as possible.
Click here to learn how Biolog-id is using convalescent blood plasma to help treat the COVID-19 virus.
Ben Abrams 