The final public hearing on reapportionment will be held Thursday in Atlanta.
State lawmakers have held 11 hearings since mid-May to get input on how they should draw new district lines for state House and Senate seats as well as 14 congressional seats. Reapportionment is done every 10 years following the U.S. Census.
The General Assembly is expected to convene Aug. 15 for a special session to approve new maps.
Thursday’s hearing will be from 5 to 7 p.m. at the LeCraw Auditorium at the Georgia Tech College of Management, 800 West Peachtree St. NW, Suite 100. For more information, visit www1.legis.ga.gov/legis/2011_12/house/Committees/reapportionment/gahlcr.htm.
AARON GOULD SHEININ
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The Georgia Supreme Court said Monday Clarke County can prosecute Hoschton man who is accused of killing a popular school crossing guard even though the charges do not specifically say how he was driving recklessly.
Athens-Clarke County police said David Vernon Outen may have had a seizure just before his car slammed into the one Trina Lenette Heard was driving on March 21, 2007.
Heard, 39, had been a crossing guard since 1997. On the day she died, she was heading toward her post on Baxter Street near Clarke Middle and Alps Road Elementary schools. RHONDA COOK
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In the region's largest public outreach effort ever, 134,000 people took part in telephone town halls about a proposed regional sales tax for transportation, according to the Atlanta Regional Commission. The people, called randomly at home phones in the 10-county Atlanta region, stayed on the phone for an average of 10 minutes, to hear local elected officials answer questions about the tax.
In 2012, voters in a referendum will consider a list of projects and a 1 percent sales tax to fund them. A group of those officials is in the process of reducing a $22.9 billion wish list to an affordable list of $6.1 billion. Staff are to suggest $11.5 billion in cuts by July 7. ARIEL HART
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