Georgia State University marketing professor Ken Bernhardt has been named the 2010 chairman of the Atlanta Convention and Visitors Bureau. Bernhardt, a longtime member of the bureau's board, will serve a one-year term beginning in January. The ACVB is the city's tourism and convention arm.

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A migrant farmworker harvests Vidalia onions at a farm in Collins, in 2011. A coalition of farmworkers, including one based in Georgia, filed suit last month in federal court arguing that cuts to H-2A wages will trigger a cut in the pay and standard of living of U.S. agricultural workers. (Bita Honarvar/AJC)

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