In brief: 2.5 million Georgians vote early, 25K in Athens — GA House Speaker to step down — Lunar eclipse tomorrow — UGA football stays atop AP Top 25, volleyball beats Arkansas in 5 sets, men's and women's hoops start season tonight
Martin Matheny was formerly WUGA's Program Director and a host and producer of our local news program 'Athens News Matters.' He started at WUGA in 2012 as a part-time classical music host and still hosts WUGA's longest-running local program 'Night Music' which was heard on WUGA and GPB Classical. He is now the Morning Edition Host for Delaware First Media.
Jeff has delivered morning news at WUGA Radio for more than a decade. He was among a team at CNN that won a George Foster Peabody Award in 1991 for an educational product based on the fall of the Soviet Union. He also won an Edward R. Murrow Award from Radio Television Digital News Association in 2007 for producing a series for WSB Radio on financial scams. Jeff is a graduate of the Babcock Graduate School of Management at Wake Forest University (MBA) and holds a BS in Business Administration from Campbell University, both in North Carolina.
Just like with any voting bloc, there's still a vast array of diverging opinions, ideologies and issues that are important among Black voters in races.