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Orlando Montoya's coverage primarily encompasses crime, government and politics in Georgia, with a focus on local developments. He frequently reports on breaking news as well as evolving stories related to arrests, government announcements, and political events.
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By: Orlando Montoya
On the July 16 edition: Three Georgia school systems are suspected of mishandling accusations of sexual misconduct by teachers; A college baseball player has been released from ICE custody; And it's the 50th anniversary of Georgia's death penalty.
By: Orlando Montoya
Sunday will mark 30 years since the opening ceremony of the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta. It comes as the city wraps up another milestone — serving as a host city in the FIFA World Cup.
By: Peter Biello, Orlando Montoya
The Leg in Question is the debut short story collection by Savannah writer K.W. Oxnard. Peter and Orlando discuss stories about HIV and AIDS, an apparently healthy leg a patient wants amputated, a grieving dog, and a Savannah morgue worker, while considering how Oxnard uses compressed scenes and unexpected endings to examine medicine, mortality, and human connection. Oxnard also reflects on the writers who shaped her work and on how the COVID era intensified her fascination with the body.
By: Orlando Montoya
U.S. District Judge Eleanor Ross was given a "private reprimand" for her behavior but two Republican lawmakers want her to face impeachment and removal from the bench.
By: Orlando Montoya
GPB's Orlando Montoya talks with Esosa Osa, founder of Onyx Impact, about the company's Black-centered artificial intelligence platform, Aisha.
By: Peter Biello, Orlando Montoya
Georgia Poet Laureate Chelsea Rathburn explores family history, financial instability, and the emotional meaning of home in her poetry collection, Broken Houses. Peter and Orlando consider how Rathburn transforms childhood memories, vanished buildings, and complicated family relationships into intimate narrative poems that reveal what our homes continue to hold long after we leave them.
By: Orlando Montoya
GPB's Orlando Montoya talks with Savannah writer K.W. Oxnard about her book, The Leg in Question. The short story collection came out of the COVID-19 pandemic and the writer's lifelong fear of all things medical.
By: Orlando Montoya
A pair of Northwest Georgia cities aim to remove so-called “forever chemicals" from the water supply.
By: Orlando Montoya
GPB's Orlando Montoya talks to the pair about the record and why they wanted to break it.
By: Orlando Montoya, Peter Biello
Historian Keri Leigh Merritt joins the conversation around An Inconvenient Woman: The Extraordinary Life of Lillian Smith, the Southerner Who Defied Jim Crow America, her biography of Georgia writer and civil rights advocate Lillian Smith. Peter Biello and Orlando Montoya explore Smith’s relationship with Paula Snelling, her work at Laurel Falls Camp, the literary magazine South Today, and books including Strange Fruit and Killers of the Dream.
