Mining company vows to forge ahead when permitted despite feds’ Okefenokee Refuge expansion plan by Jill Nolin, Georgia Recorder
Georgians with disabilities are still being institutionalized, despite federal oversight by Sam Whitehead, KFF Health News
From Tourism To Trauma: East Tennessee travel officials help coordinate hurricane recovery by Alec Castro
How North Carolina made its hospitals do something about medical debt by Noam N. Levey and and Ames Alexander, Charlotte Observer Illustration by Oona Zenda
Did a Georgia hospital break federal law when it failed to save Amber Thurman? A Senate committee chair wants answers by Ziva Branstetter, ProPublica
Harris speaks on earning Black men’s votes, abortion rights and gun control in Philly interview by Kim Lyons, Pennsylvania Capital-Star
Georgia’s top GOP lawmaker seeks tougher action against students who make threats. But it may not make schools safer by Aliyya Swaby, Propublica
Inside the political fight to build a rural Georgia hospital by Andy Miller, Sam Whitehead, KFF Health News
The rural Americans too poor for federal flood protections by Claire Carlson and Elizabeth Miller / The Daily Yonder, Climate Central
“Life-Changing Support”: In rural North Carolina, a program for treatment of Substance Use Disorder through pregnancy and beyond offers care and counters stigma by Taylor Sisk, The Daily Yonder
The politics holding back Medicaid expansion in some southern states by Drew Hawkins, Gulf States Newsroom
She Says Doctors Ignored Her Concerns About Her Pregnancy. For Many Black Women, It’s a Familiar Story. by Duaa Eldeib
Lack of telehealth law in Pennsylvania a major headache for patients who need it most by Danielle Ohl of Spotlight PA
Pa. is trying county fairs, text messages, and door-knocking to raise the vaccination rate. Success is slow coming. by Jamie Martines of Spotlight PA
