Category: Rural Roundups
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TIGC makes the AJC’s Politically Georgia podcast
Yours truly is on today’s edition of the AJC’s Politically Georgia podcast, and, apparently, I’d had sufficient coffee to keep from making a complete idiot of myself. Many thanks to Patricia Murphy and Greg Bluestein for having me on the show.
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Ranking Georgia’s counties on key economic, education, and population health metrics
As some TIGC readers know, I’ve been concentrating lately on stirring my research into some kind of semi-coherent book form. As part of that process, I’ve been updating a lot of data, and fairly regularly I run across buckets of numbers that are worth a quick post. This is one of those times. Over the…
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Bill Shipp is still right
I’ve written a couple of pieces over the years detailing the educational attainment gaps between the various parts of the state. The main hook I used for those pieces was an old Bill Shipp quote that without Metro Atlanta, the state of Georgia would be more poorly educated than Mississippi. As a native Mississippian, I…