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Nathan Deal orders up an Ebola response team

By Jim Galloway
Oct 19, 2014

Just over an hour before his 7 p.m. Atlanta Press Club/Georgia Public Broadcasting debate, Gov. Nathan Deal indicated that he's anticipating a question about the Ebola virus. From the press release:

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Jim Galloway, the newspaper’s former political columnist, was a writer and editor at the AJC for four decades.

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