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The flower comes from East Asia and symbolizes a story of memory, myth and displacement. Now, there’s a movement afoot to choose a new, native state symbol.

As Tony Harris walks through his garden, he stops beside a young sapling, its thin branches stretching upward into the early spring air. In a few years, he says, it will bloom with fragrant white flowers the size of a fist.

The Cherokee Rose, Georgia’s State Flower, Actually Has Nothing to Do With the Cherokee People—or the State

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Alabama’s Self-Proclaimed ‘AI Watchman’ Unseats Incumbent Public Service Commissioner

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Jim Zeigler first served on the body nearly 50 years ago. Now the Republican is hoping his opposition to data centers will stave off a Democratic victory in November.

MOBILE, Ala.—Jim Zeigler didn’t have much time to celebrate.

Alabama’s Self-Proclaimed ‘AI Watchman’ Unseats Incumbent Public Service Commissioner

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Alabama Governor Names Four New PSC Members, Including Its First Two Black Appointees

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Gov. Kay Ivey announced the appointments as a first step under new legislation expanding the state’s utilities regulator from three to seven seats in 2027.

The Alabama Public Service Commission has never had a Black commissioner in its 145-year history, but that’s about to change.

Alabama Governor Names Four New PSC Members, Including Its First Two Black Appointees

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‘We Just Want Clean Water’: Residents Sue a North Carolina County Over Landfill Contamination

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The lawsuit alleges the county has known since at least 2023 that the landfill is leaching PFAS, a family of forever chemicals, into drinking water.

This story was published by the Border Belt Independent in collaboration with Inside Climate News.

‘We Just Want Clean Water’: Residents Sue a North Carolina County Over Landfill Contamination

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