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Let’s peer in to our technological future and see what awaits us. Top experts recently gathered at Georgia Tech to do just that, and surmised we must embrace computational literacy if we are to comprehend devices that allow the blind to see and the deaf to hear. Today, a Tech dean writes about the new generation of computing and its effect on the fabric of our lives. Elsewhere, a business executive, citing a strategic advantage, talks of the value of keeping IT departments in-house rather than outsourcing.

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Stop relitigating 2020 election. Voting in Georgia is secure and accessible.

Some Fulton County officials are callling for more changes to the election system and the 2020 election keeps coming up, but voting is both safe and accessible in Georgia.

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Supreme Court declined same-sex marriage case, but the fight is not over

Supreme Court decided not to take on a request to overturn same-sex married couples' rights, but pushback to expanded civil rights has a long tradition in the United States.

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Stop relitigating 2020 election. Voting in Georgia is secure and accessible.

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Supreme Court declined same-sex marriage case, but the fight is not over

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Georgia judges deal blow to ICE’s new mandatory detention policy

The ruling is a first-of-its-kind to come out of Georgia’s Middle District.

At the Cobb jail, a new kind of rehabilitation starts at the horse barn

Joshua Arp is one of two Cobb County jail detainees taking part of the sheriff’s office new equine therapy program meant to help him stay out of jail.