Scott Slade's Georgia

Atlanta Journal Constitution Sports Columnist Mark Bradley is retiring. He talks with Scott Slade about the most notable moments—good and bad--he covered in a remarkable forty years with the paper; and he almost hates to admit that he got paid to do it!

All four nuclear power plants are up and running now at Plant Vogtle, with Units 3 and 4 the nation's first new nuclear construction in over three decades. As Georgia Power CEO Kim Greene tells us, they are performing flawlessly and capable of delivering 100% of their capacity 24/7 for decades to come. Among the surprises: the availability and cost effectiveness of nuclear fuel.

Scott Slade looks at how a simple sweater helped changed a woman's life after she made a humble donation to Clark's Christmas Kids over a decade ago.

This week, Scott is speaking with Natasha Harris, a wheelchair agent at Hartsfield Jackson International Airport. Her mission is to make traveling easier for folks with mobility challenges, from curb to gate. She works with Unifi, North America's largest aviation provider with employees at more than 200 airports. As you will hear, what she does is special and she has a very personal passion for he...

An army of volunteers go to work to help those in need.

In the season of bounty and Thanksgiving, Georgia Agriculture Commissioner Tyler Harper tells Scott that circumstances are dire for Georgia family farms. Hurricane Helene has been a gut punch for farmers already dealing with higher costs, inflation, commodity prices and devastating weather. Harper says food security is a matter of national security and especially alarming is the agricultural trade...

The City of Suwanee dedicates its new Veterans Memorial just in time for the holiday. Scott spoke with local dignitaries and the man who created the memorial.

The 35th season of the Alliance Theatre's adaptation of "A Christmas Carol" opens this Saturday, November 9, running through December 24. Scott speaks with director Caitlin Hargraves and actor Andrew Benator about what makes this production so resilient and beloved by Atlanta audiences. David Bell updated his adaptation four years ago, and among the enhancements: an awesome revolving set dubbed "T...

An update on Georgia's most horrifying and confounding murder case in a generation - the Lake Oconee murders from 2014. Scott is joined by Andrew Iden of the true crime "Deviant" podcast.

Boo!  The short drive to one of the scariest - and most entertaining - Halloween attractions in the nation.

In depth conversation with Gabriel Sterling, the Chief Operating Officer for the Georgia Secretary of State's office. We walk through the voting process, beginning with how Georgia ballots are physically manufactured with security in mind, the fact that every Georgia voter—including absentee voters—is now tied to an ID, and what happens to those paper ballots once the polls close.

It's Georgia Pre-K Week, and Department of Early Care and Learning Commissioner Amy Jacobs is talking to Scott about Georgia's Pre-K program. It gives over 80 thousand four-year-olds a year a measurable advantage for kindergarten and beyond.

90-year-old Ed Fisher still owns the company that started in a strip mall on Buford Highway in Chamblee and is still headquartered in Atlanta. Thousands of self-proclaiming "Egg-heads" will descend on Coolray Field in Gwinnett County this weekend for what they are calling "Eggtoberfest." While they are there cooking up their favorite Big Green Egg recipes they will attempt to break the Guiness wor...

Celebrating the 70th anniversary of the venerable C130 Hercules Tactical Airlifter; the more than 2700 aircraft were all built in the Lockheed Martin Marietta facility. The aircraft is so versatile and resilient, orders for new ones are still being filled. They can fly fast enough to air refuel a jet fighter, slow enough to gas up a helicopter, and land on a dirt road, if necessary, with 90 combat...

From the Billy Kelley Golf Classic at Braelinn Golf Club in Peachtree City Monday, raising money for the Tunnel 2 Towers Foundation. Speaking with retired FDNY Battalion Chief Jack Oehm who is a 9/11 survivor and T2T board member, and retired US Army Captain Dan Berschinski who was gravely wounded in Afghanistan and now makes his home in Atlanta. The foundation is setting up a trust fund for the t...

Griffin/Spalding Archivist Cindy Barton talks about John Henry "Doc" Holliday. Though there is plenty of evidence of his birth and youth in Griffin, GA, and how he became a dentist, mystery surrounds many of the events that made him a legend. The Griffin Doc Holliday Festival is the Saturday after Labor Day at the Griffin City Park with arts, crafts, a BBQ contest, and reenactments that Include th...

AJC's Helena Oliviero, Roswell SmartMED Medical Care Dr. Luke Lathrop, and State Epidemilogist Dr. Cherie Drenzek discuss the evidence of a notable late summer increase in COVID cases in Georgia.

The Atlanta live music legend who's putting a North Georgia town on the map.

Scott speaks with Commissioner Kevin Tanner of the Georgia Department of Behavorial Health and Developmental Disabilities about Georgia's 9-8-8 crisis line, which is so effective that it's become a national model for doing it right.

Jason Lee, CEO of utility contractor Integral Municipal Services Corporation and president of the Georgia Utility Contractors Association, describes the work already underway to update Atlanta's aging water system.

How leadership has turned past tragedies into hope and healing, and how we can do it again

You likely stopped there when you were on family vacation back in the day. Here's how an iconic Georgia company is surviving and thriving after nearly a hundred years.

Scott takes us to the Savoy Automobile Museum in Cartersville, visiting with their Director of Development, Tom Shinall. Get up close and personal with some of the most famous cars in movie history!

Scott's speaking with Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr about the letter he's fired off to the Chairwoman of the FCC, imploring the Commission to grant Georgia and other states the authority to jam cellphone signals in jails and state prisons. Thousands of contraband cellphones are confiscated yearly, and they are largely used to perpetrate crimes and scams both inside and outside the prison wal...

Scott meets with the grandson of a D-Day veteran and learns what he did to follow in his grandfather's footsteps.