Grant Blankenship
Grant came to public media after a career spent in newspaper photojournalism. As an all platform journalist he seeks to wed the values of public radio storytelling and the best of photojournalism online.
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Decades-old pecan trees in Georgia were among the victims when Hurricane Michael swept through the state last week. This year's harvest will be slim and it will take years to recover. -
It may be hard to enjoy a Georgia peach, if you don't live in the state. A warm winter, followed by a March freeze wiped out most of this year's crop, and what's left may not leave the state.
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Strong storms ripped across the southeast, killing at least 20 people and injuring dozens more. The worst damage was in Georgia where one city was already cleaning up from an earlier tornado.
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Across the deep South, people are picking up the pieces after a weekend of violent storms and tornadoes. Nearly 20 people were killed Saturday, eight of them near the South Georgia town of Adel.
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Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump face off in their first presidential debate Monday night. Steve Inskeep is in the swing state of Georgia, and talks to Suzanne Menarcine about why she favors Clinton.
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Former President Jimmy Carter regularly teaches Sunday school, and he's made it clear his cancer diagnosis won't change that. The small church he attends can't fit all who travel there to hear him. -
As bat populations dwindle, a new effort is aimed at getting North America's bat researchers working on the same page.
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The number of coyotes in the Deep South is growing, but biologists know relatively little about their habits across the south and how they are diverging from their cousins out west.
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Coyotes in the Deep South live among a mosaic of agricultural fields and woods but little wilderness. A new study uses tracking collars to understand how these animals thrive in three Southern states.
