Georgia's largest battery storage facility unveiled
Across 40 acres in Cherokee County, banks of Tesla batteries store something Georgians depend on every day: electricity for when they need it most.
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Unger is an Ohio native and graduate of Ohio University, where he earned his bachelor's degree and holds an honorary doctorate.
He began his journalism career at CBS News in New York as a producer for Connie Chung. He also worked with correspondents Charles Kuralt and Bill Geist and contributed to multiple broadcasts in the news division, "48 Hours," "Street Stories," "Eye on America" and special election coverage.
He went on to report and produce at the syndicated news hour "Day & Date" for CBS, before departing the network to became a founding producer and the first-ever correspondent for "The Daily Show" on Comedy Central. He later produced and hosted his own series on Discovery, Travel, National Geographic and History, including the New York Times best-seller and TV hit, "How the States Got Their Shapes," and many factual series for cable and network platforms FOX, A&E and HGTV.
Unger has had a long presence in national journalism, anchoring at MSNBC, as a commentator at CNN, NPR's "Day & Date" and "All Things Considered," and KCET where he won top honors for best commentary in Southern California, as well a narrator for the PBS series "Nature."
Atlanta is his home, where he lives on a farm in north Georgia, with far too many animals to cite here.
Across 40 acres in Cherokee County, banks of Tesla batteries store something Georgians depend on every day: electricity for when they need it most.
For five young women at Clayton County's Mount Zion High School, Keisha Lance Bottoms' projected victory is more than an election result.
Hundreds of students gathered in Rome, Georgia, to show off their trade skills in the hopes of winning a trophy and getting a job after they graduate.
Community organizers in Norcross spent Monday delivering election-protection materials and working to get Hispanic and Latino voters to the polls.
People across the country are concerned about the rising cost of living, and a group of bipartisan mayors say local solutions to the problem need stronger partnerships, including help from Washington.
On the 100 acres that make up WarAngel Farms in Canton, horses rescued from kill pens get a chance to live full lives.
Nearly a decade after Fulton County seized his horses over allegations of animal mistreatment, a South Fulton horseman's fight to receive just compensation for his property has become a potentially precedent-setting constitutional case.
Every fall, one of nature's most remarkable migrations passes through Georgia, carried on wings so delicate they seem hardly suited for the journey ahead.
Before Souper Jenny opens for business on Tuesday mornings, the restaurant becomes an assembly line, with volunteers quickly packing hundreds of quarts of soup across metro Atlanta.
On a rainy weekend in Canton, dozens of volunteers came to cut, sand, drill, stain, and assemble stacks of lumber into something most people rarely have to think about: a bed.
For nearly three decades, Julian Mejía has been teaching Atlantans how to dance casino, also known as Cuban salsa.
For 100 years, the massive brick building now known as Ponce City Market has been part of Atlanta's economic and cultural life, reinventing itself as the city around it changed.
Days after two young boys were shot and killed in Stone Mountain, DeKalb County leaders announced a $250,000 initiative aimed at preventing youth violence.
Mita and Hemant Parikh decided to split from their group and take a side trip during their long-planned pilgrimage. They're now safely back home, but none of the families they were traveling with have been found.
The Atlanta City Council voted unanimously Monday to back a plan that could move the long-debated question of light rail on the Atlanta BeltLine closer to a decision about how and whether to build it.