Metro Atlanta / State News
News from metro Atlanta and across Georgia
John Spink, jspink@ajc.com
Lower temps, higher bills
Georgia Power’s customers used 23 percent more electricity in January compared to a year ago.
AJC Atlanta Project »
- Part 1: City leaders fiddle as crime fears flare | Solutions
- Part 2: Pumped-up pensions squeeze city | Solutions
- Part 3: What stinks? High cost of water, sewer | Solutions
- Part 4: No walking away from panhandling problem | Solutions
- Part 5: Conflict between city, state | Solutions
- Part 6: Engine for growth has run out of fuel | Solutions
Property tax meltdown
HOPE plan takes hit in House
Perdue wanted to use lottery money for scholarship program instead of taxes.
Census outreach ratchets up
Koreans and Vietnamese descended upon Doraville for a chance Tuesday to land one of the coveted, $18.
Cops: Man forged $1.6B bonds
A Duluth man has been charged with manufacturing more than $1.6 billion in fraudulent U.S. Treasury bonds and other government documents.
Blogs
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Atlanta Bargain Hunter »
Money decisions for love that you’d take back
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Political Insider »
Max Wood begins to explain himself
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View from the Cop »
Off-duty: Don’t screw up Valentine’s Day
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Get Schooled »
Gov. Perdue: Teachers “excited” about new performance pay plan. Excited or incited?
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Gold Dome »
House goes against Perdue on HOPE shift and cuts public colleges
Q&A on the news »
- Q: What happened to all the "clunkers" that were traded in during the Cash for Clunkers program?
- Q: How is it that Martin Luther King Jr. gets a memorial on the mall in Washington, D.C.? I was under the impression that only presidents were entitled to have a memorial.
- Q: The AJC publishes online the number of crimes, according to category, for unincorporated south Fulton and College Park, so why are Union City and Palmetto not shown?
- Ask a question
Obituaries »
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Isabella McIntyre Tobin, 94: Spelman benefactor
Isabella Tobin said it often: If you graduated from Spelman College, you needed to give back.Pay it forward, she'd say.
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Joi Chestnut, 40: Epitomized customer service
People who knew or came across Joi Chestnut say her name was a perfect fit.She worked in customer service at the Publix in Ansley Mall, off Piedmont Avenue.
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House Rep. John Murtha dies
Harrisburg, Pa. — U.S. Rep. John Murtha, an influential critic of the Iraq War whose congressional career was shadowed by questions about his ethics, died Monday.
- Photos: 2009 notable deaths
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