About the Authors
Isaac Sabetai is an audience specialist with the state and federal politics team. He builds data visualizations and other projects that help explain what Georgia lawmakers are doing and how the state is or isn't changing.
Emily Merwin DiRico has been doing information design and news application development at the AJC since she arrived as a summer intern in 2009. Her mission is to help readers understand complex data and how it affects them.
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Thanksgiving travel will clog Metro Atlanta interstates again Sunday
Experts say more than 2 million motorists will hit Georgia roads for Thanksgiving.
8m agoMan locked up for 23 years despite evidence proving his innocence, lawsuit says
Although investigators had reason to believe Bharadia wasn’t involved in the crime, they pushed forward with a case against him anyway, the lawsuit says.
Chilly weather continuing through Thanksgiving weekend across metro Atlanta
Thanksgiving’s cold weather will linger for the foreseeable future.
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Metro Atlanta retailers hopeful for strong holiday season after chaotic year
Some independent retailers in metro Atlanta are entering this holiday season feeling battered by what they call a chaotic year.
$21B data center proposal aims to become one of Georgia’s largest
Trammell Crow Co. is planning a $21 billion technology campus for a 1,632-acre site along I-75 roughly 60 miles southeast of downtown Atlanta.
This metro Atlanta couple spearheaded a change in football helmets
Erin and Lee Hanson are the founders behind Guardian Sports, the company that makes the Guardian Caps worn by college football and NFL players.


