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Georgia Focus
Georgia Focus is a weekly 26-minute public affairs program covering issues of importance and interest to Georgians. Hosted by GNN’s John Clark, the program topics include government and political issues, non-profits, history, economic issues and charities. Georgia Focus is a 4-time winner of the Best Public Affairs Program Award from the National association of State Radio Networks and 2 Merit Awards from the Georgia Association of Broadcasters.
Episodes
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Georgia Focus - Hidden History of Old Atlanta
Old Atlanta may conjure images of southern belles and Civil War ruination, but the full story stretches back millennia, even before the first known residents…
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Georgia Focus - Dr. Mark Goulston
Pandemic stress isn’t just impacting frontline workers; it hurts all of us. Diana Hendel, PharmD, and Mark Goulston, MD, share advice for recognizing and…
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Georgia Focus - Georgia Division of Aging Services
The Division of Aging Services coordinates with other aging organizations to provide services to appropriately sustain older Georgians in their homes and…
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Georgia Focus - Breman Museum
The William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum is a cultural center in Atlanta dedicated to Jewish history, culture and arts with special emphasis on Georgia and…
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Georgia Focus - AG Chris Carr
Georgia’s Attorney General Chris Carr discusses a number of issues including crime in Atlanta, Human Trafficking, Gangs and lawsuits filed by Georgia and other…
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Georgia Focus - Paul Hornsby
Fix it in the Mix is the memoir of Paul Hornsby, acclaimed record producer and musician best known for his work at Capricorn Records in Macon during the…
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Georgia Focus - Abbie Deloach Foundation
The Abbie DeLoach Foundation is named for Abbie DeLoach, who was one of 5 Georgia Southern University nursing students tragically killed in a tractor-trailer…
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Georgia Focus - DFCS Fostering
The mission of the GA Dept of Human Services Division of Family & Children’s Services is to prioritize the safety of Georgia’s children in the decisions they…
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Georgia Focus - COI
The Georgia Centers of Innovation are the state’s leading resource for facilitating business innovation. Through the assistance of the five centers, Georgia…
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Georgia Focus - Governor's Office of Highway Safety
Distracted Driving Awareness Month Georgia Governor’s Office of Highway Safety Director Allen Poole and Lt. Maurice Raines from Georgia State Patrol discuss…
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Georgia Focus - Matties Call
Mattie’s Call is an emergency missing alert for disabled or elderly persons. Established by the Georgia General Assembly in 2006, the alert can be activated by…
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Georgia Focus - Curing Kids Cancer
Guest Grainne Owen founded Curing Kids Cancer in 2005 in order to fund research to find a cure for childhood cancer. Since then Curing Kids Cancer has raised…
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Georgia Focus - Crime Victims Week
April 5-11 is National Crime Victims Week. Marsy’s Law, passed in GA in 2018, seeks to give crime victims meaningful and enforceable constitutional rights…
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Georgia Focus - Marys Meals
Jerry Smith and Dennis Dorman, have biked thousands of miles together all over the world. For over a decade their travels have been to help charities fight…
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Georgia Focus - Ag Experience
The Georgia Ag Experience is a Mobile Classroom Powered by the Georgia Foundation for Agriculture is a unique STEM-based educational program that invites…
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Georgia Focus - Alzheimer's Association Georgia Chapter
Alzheimer’s Association 150,000 Georgians age 65 an older are living with Alzheimer’s. That figure is expected to reach 190,000 by 2025 according to the…
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Georgia Focus - Atlanta Motor Speedway
Due to covid last year’s FOLDS OF HONOR QUIKTRIP 500 race at Atlanta Motor Speedway had to be postponed with limited fans. This year the race is back on…
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Georgia Focus - Enduring Hearts
February is American Heart Month. Enduring Hearts is the only nonprofit solely dedicated to research that helps kids with heart transplants live longer…
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Georgia Focus - 111 Place in Atlanta You Must Not Miss
111 Places in Atlanta That You Must Not Miss is the ultimate insider's guide to Atlanta. The book by Travis Swann Taylor features interesting and unusual…
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Georgia Focus - Dr. oey Faucette
Dr. Joey Faucette is Author of two #1 Best-Sellers, Work Positive in a Negative World and Faith Positive in a Negative World and well as many other books. He…
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Georgia Focus - GA DOT Safety
Scott Higley from the Georgia Department of Transportation discusses important safety programs such as their safe driving push to decrease roadway crashes…
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Georgia Focus - Paradise Gardens
Reverend Howard Finster, a self proclaimed “Man of Visions”, was one of America’s most widely known and prolific self-taught artists. Today, his home and…
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Georgia Focus - Dept of Childrens and Family Services
Tom Rawlings, Director of the Georgia Division of Family and Children Services, discusses adoption and proposed changes being put before the 2021 Legislative…
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Georgia Focus - The Music of The Statler Brothers – Don Reid
The Music of The Statler Brothers is an in-depth look at the musical career of The Statler Brothers’ forty-year reign as country music's premier group. Lead…
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Georgia Focus - 2021 Places in Peril
The Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation works for the preservation and revitalization of Georgia's historic resources and advocates for their appreciation…
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Georgia Focus - Cool Town
In Athens in the eighties, if you were young and willing to live without much money, anything seemed possible. Grace Elizabeth Hale experienced the Athens…
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Georgia Focus - GaGives Day
GAgives on #GivingTuesday offers every Georgia nonprofit the chance to be part of a worldwide end-of-year giving-season kickoff, and the tools to make it a…
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Georgia Focus - Rural Prosperity
For many of the state’s counties, economic prosperity has dwindled and many rural communities are slowly dying. The Georgia Chamber recognized this and…
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Georgia Focus - Adoption
National Adoption Month is celebrated every November government agencies, courts, child advocacy organizations and families across the nation. Its purpose is…
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Georgia Focus - Haunted Tourism in Georgia
Haunted Tourism is a unique segment of Georgia’s Tourism industry that highlights the state’s history as well as the unexplained. Mark Jaronski, Deputy…
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Georgia Focus - Places in Peril
Mark McDonald, President and CEO of the GA Trust for Historic Preservation, discusses this year’s Places in Peril list of 10 historic structures in Georgia…
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Georgia Focus - Otis Redding
Otis Redding: An Unfinished Life, by Jonathan Gould is the long-awaited, definitive biography of The King of Soul, timed to coincide with the 50th anniversary…
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Georgia Focus - Americorps
Americorps AmeriCorps offers a variety of service opportunities, from the classroom to the outdoors, and everything in between. No matter what you're…
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Georgia Focus - Marsys Law of Georgia
Marsy’s Law seeks to give crime victims meaningful and enforceable constitutional rights equal to the rights of the accused. It was passed in GA in 2018…
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Georgia Focus - Georgia Library System
The Georgia Public Library Service empowers libraries to improve the lives of all Georgians by encouraging reading, literacy, and education through the…
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Georgia Focus - Caresource
CareSource is nationally recognized for leading the industry in providing member-centric health care coverage. The CareSource mission of making a lasting…
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Georgia Focus - Alzheimer's Association Georgia Chapter
More than 5 million Americans are living with Alzheimer's disease. Additionally, more than 16 million family members and friends provide care to people living…
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Georgia Focus - Enduring Hearts
Enduring Hearts launched in 2013 with a mission to fund research that increases the longevity of pediatric heart transplants, improve the quality of life for…
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Georgia Focus - Curing Kids Cancer
Curing Kids Cancer Just one year after the devastating loss of their nine-year-old son Killian to leukemia, Grainne Owen founded Curing Kids Cancer in 2005 in…
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Georgia Focus - CEFGA Construction Education Foundation of Georgia
CEFGA is the Construction Education Foundation of Georgia. They were founded by leading construction presidents and CEOs who recognized a need for quality…
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Georgia Focus - School Reopenings
Plans to reopen Georgia’s Schools and Fall sports - Efforts are underway for reopening Georgia’s schools, colleges and fall sports and this programs provides…
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Georgia Focus - Underwater Ghost Towns of North Georgia
North Georgia has more than 40 lakes, and not one is natural. The decision to dam the region’s rivers for power and water supply changed the landscape forever…
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Georgia Focus - Atlanta Lab Rescue
Atlanta Lab Rescue is an all-volunteer, non-profit organization, whose mission is to identify and rescue Labrador Retrievers and large breed mixes from…
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Georgia Focus - Georgia Made
Georgia Made Georgia Made is a program that Georgia manufacturing companies use to inform domestic and international end-users that a company’s products are…
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Georgia Focus - Steve Oney - A Man's World
A Man’s World is a collection of 20 profiles of fascinating men by author and magazine writer Steve Oney. These profiles, 5 with Georgia connections, were…
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Georgia Focus - Cool Town
Cool Town - In Athens in the 80s, if you were young and willing to live without much money, anything seemed possible. Grace Elizabeth Hale experienced the…
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Georgia Focus - DECAL
DECAL - Georgia Department of Early Care and Learning is responsible for meeting the childcare and early education needs of Georgia's children and their…
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Georgia Focus - Mission Dawgs
Mission Dawgs is an organization started last year with the mission of supporting much of the homeless population of Georgia by providing basic human needs…
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Georgia Focus - Micajah Clark Dyer
Micajah Clark Dyer - On this program recorded in Blairsville Sylvia Dyer Turnage, author of Flying Off Rattlesnake Mountain: The Amazing Story of Pioneer…
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Georgia Focus - Stokes Neilson
+2 Project – Stokes Nielson - Award-winning country artist Stokes Nielson, who grew up in Dougherty County, is leading a nationwide effort of recovered…
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GaFocus - 3 Governors Controversy of 1947
Three Governors Controversy - The death of Georgia governor-elect Eugene Talmadge in late 1946 launched a constitutional crisis that ranks as one of the most…
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Georgia Focus - Search & Rescue in Georgia
Search & Rescue in Georgia - Allen Padgett and Bob Bolz with Southeast Search & Rescue Associates discuss the training and techniques utilized in locating lost…
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Georgia Focus - Plains, GA - President Carter
Plains, Georgia/ Jimmy Carter National Historic site - One can no longer see Georgia Washington’s birthplace or William Henry Harrison’s log cabin Plains, GA…
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Georgia Focus - Marsys Law
Marsy’s Law seeks to give crime victims meaningful and enforceable constitutional rights equal to the rights of the accused. Marsy's Law is named after Marsy…
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Georgia Focus - Loran Smith talks about Larry Munson
Loran’s Smith - Letter to Larry and other memories of Georgia’s Legendary Announcer Larry Munson - Larry Munson was the legendary radio voice of the Georgia…
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Georgia Focus - Reform Alliance
REFORM Alliance is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization whose mission is to dramatically reduce the number of people who are unjustly under the control of the…
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Georgia Focus - Bill Curry, Legendary Football Coach
Bill Curry talks about his book Ten Men You Meet in the Huddle, and shares the wit, wisdom, and tough love of teammates and coaches who turned him from a…
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Jennifer Arnold from discuses Canine Assistants work to provide service dogs to those with medical issues
Canine Assistants educates dogs and people wo need them so they may improve the lives of one another. They facilitate relationships between people and their…
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Red Cross Month - Sherri Nicholson from Red Cross discusses Sound the Alarm and other initiatives
March is Red Cross month and Sherry Nicholson from Red Cross discusses their spring initiatives including Sound the Alarm which installs smoke alarms at no…
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Georgia Focus - Turning Point
Turning Point cares for women with breast cancer by providing specialized and evidence-based rehabilitation including physical therapy, massage therapy…