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PolitiFact: Roundup for past week
This week, PolitiFact Georgia and the AJC Truth-O-Meter tackled two of the most important issues in government: jobs and taxes. We examined a claim by Gov. Nathan Deal about the state government’s employees, and how years without raises have impacted the workforce. We took to the history books to determine ...
Judge tries to keep APS case on track
In the chaotic Fulton County court system, Judge Jerry Baxter’s impatience can be a virtue. From his Superior Court bench, he often views a courtroom packed with defendants charged with anything from murder to mayhem. His job is to dispense justice. But in a more practical sense, it is to ...
For Skandalakis, pursuit of law license is “like redemption”
When Mitch Skandalakis pleaded with a state bar panel last year to let him practice law again, he acted nothing like the flamboyant politician of the 1990s known for acidic smear ads and ceaseless attacks on Atlanta city hall. This Skandalakis, aged a decade since he fell out of the ...
Hundreds of Georgia bridges aging, deficient
The Spring Street Bridge in downtown Atlanta carries thousands of drivers to some of the biggest entertainment events in Georgia. It also has deteriorating concrete, “cracking,” “leaching,” a steel support post “loose and relatively free to move” and a sufficiency rating of three out of 100, according to inspection reports. ...
Fulton commissioner says tax chief revoked car tag in retaliation
She messed with his car, so now Fulton County Tax Commissioner Arthur Ferdinand has messed with hers, a county commissioner alleged in court documents Friday. It began when north Fulton Commissioner Liz Hausmann publicly questioned why taxpayers are funding a $39,000 Ford Explorer Limited for the state’s highest-paid elected official. ...
With pay raises on the table, city workers debate whether it is enough
An Atlanta plan to give some city workers more money in their paychecks, has hit a snag: city workers. At a special called meeting of the Atlanta City Council, union heads testified that a salary increase proposal floated last week that would give raises of up to 3 percent to ...
Inmate asks high court to halt his execution
Lawyers for condemned inmate Warren Hill on Thursday asked the nation’s highest court to halt his execution on grounds he is mentally retarded. A month ago, the federal appeals court in Atlanta, in a 2-1 decision, rejected Hill’s claims, saying they had already been considered and rejected. Hill’s filing Thursday ...
Audit gives defender system high marks
An audit has given Georgia’s public defender system high marks for changes that make sure only those defendants who are truly indigent qualify for state-funded legal representation. Two years ago, the Department of Audits and Accounts criticized the Georgia Public Defender Standards Council for not thoroughly screening defendants to make ...
Brooks pleads not guilty, released on bond
State Rep. Tyrone Brooks, accompanied by former Gov. Roy Barnes as his attorney, pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges he bilked two charities out of hundreds of thousands of dollars and evaded taxes. Brooks, a 67-year-old Atlanta Democrat, was allowed to remain free on a $25,000 unsecured bond. He is ...
City eyes creek cleanup as kick-start for NW revitalization
As a boy growing up on English Avenue in downtown Atlanta, Vincent Jones and his friends often played in nearby Proctor Creek. Those were the days before people realized the extent of the contamination in the stream, which runs from the Georgia Dome to the Chattahoochee River. Flooding from downtown, ...
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