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I was just told this by someone who works at ESPN. It sounds like it will come out in Sept and will feature original reporting from Somalia and tell the story of Somalia during 2000s and 2010s. Has anyone else heard details about this?

Investigation from Mississippi Today. Podcast series has just come out describing how the opioid settlement funds were used to buy new guns for police departments, fiber optic cables, and surveillance cameras while the opioid crisis continued. Families affected by the crisis were left in the dark.

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Podcast series just launched. Podcast linked here

For two decades, a corporate chain of some of America’s most powerful companies pushed highly additive opioids into the hands of American families. Some spent the 1990s and 2000s heavily marketing and downplaying the danger of opioid prescription painkillers, while others looked the other way as the products they called medicine led to hundreds of thousands of deaths. By 2021, after states sued them, the companies began agreeing to legal settlements that paid out billions of dollars of reparations for the opioid epidemic. Mississippi is expected to receive over $400 million dollars of these penance payments, but a devastating question looms: will this money benefit Mississippians who’ve suffered most from the worst drug crisis in modern American history?

I just think these deep dives from the AJC have been really well done.

From the Trailer:

For decades, Dalton, Georgia, proudly called itself the "Carpet Capital of the World" — until the costs of relying on a single industry became impossible to ignore. As the town continues to reckon with the long‑term impacts tied to its carpet boom today, city officials have also been searching for what comes next. Enter Core Scientific, a massive tech company that arrived as a bitcoin miner, went bankrupt, and is now pivoting to AI and data center infrastructure. Local leaders see opportunity, while many residents worry about risk, accountability and what history might repeat. This episode of "Curiosities of the South" explores a major manufacturing city in northwest Georgia caught between its past and a high‑stakes future. To learn more about how Dalton got here, watch the full episode on May 19.