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Grant Blankenship

How One Town’s Life With Coal Ash Inspired A Georgia Bill

Gloria Hammond remembers the day the man from Georgia Power came to talk about buying the home she shared with her husband Cason. They…

2 min readFeb 2, 2020

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How One Town’s Life With Coal Ash Inspired A Georgia Bill

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Grant Blankenship

Milking: When Landlord Privacy Means Tenants Suffer

When Patricia Jordan got home midmorning on a recent Wednesday, all she wanted was a bath. But, for the second day straight, she was out…

3 min readFeb 15, 2019

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Milking: When Landlord Privacy Means Tenants Suffer

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Grant Blankenship

First Steps In ‘Turnaround’ For One Georgia School

One morning during the second week of the school year, Principal Shandrina Griffin-Stewart was about to walk the halls of Appling Middle…

5 min readSep 25, 2018

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First Steps In ‘Turnaround’ For One Georgia School

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Grant Blankenship

One Frame: Don’t Take Our Libraries

When the Macon-Bibb County Commission zeroed out funding for local libraries, parks, museums and the health department, a hue and cry…

1 min readJul 4, 2018

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One Frame: Don’t Take Our Libraries

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Grant Blankenship

On The Water: Oyster Farming On The Georgia Coast

Grant Blankenship and J. Cindy Hill/Georgia Public Broadcasting

1 min readJan 18, 2018

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On The Water: Oyster Farming On The Georgia Coast

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Grant Blankenship
in
(Dis)Integration

For Teachers With “Spark”, Look Close To Home

Most school days You can find Jared Moore teaching freshman English at Northeast High School in Macon.

5 min readOct 24, 2017

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For Teachers With “Spark”, Look Close To Home

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Grant Blankenship
in
(Dis)Integration

Is This A Fix For White Flight Charter Schools?

All the open seats at the Academy for Classical Education were gone by the time Sammy Smith’s daughters’ names were pulled in the school’s…

4 min readMay 10, 2017

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Is This A Fix For White Flight Charter Schools?

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Grant Blankenship
in
(Dis)Integration

Where To Start With A Struggling School?

Do you remember the last time you worked really hard on something? If someone was working on the same thing and got ahead before you, you…

4 min readMay 5, 2017

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Where To Start With A Struggling School?

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Grant Blankenship
in
(Dis)Integration

The Good And Bad Of Minority/Majority Transfers

Sierra Martin was in the fifth grade in the 1990s when her mother took advantage of the minority to majority transfer program to move her…

1 min readMay 4, 2017

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The Good And Bad Of Minority/Majority Transfers

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Grant Blankenship
in
Vantage

In Georgia, a Town Hall Meeting Congressional Aids Weren’t Ready For

This was going to be a town hall whether anyone planned it that way or not.

3 min readFeb 10, 2017

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In Georgia, a Town Hall Meeting Congressional Aids Weren’t Ready For

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Grant Blankenship

Grant Blankenship

Multimedia reporter (A/V Nerd) with Georgia Public Broadcasting. Heard on NPR. Photos (have been) seen in the New York Times, etc. Really a local kinda guy.

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