Today’s moderator: Rick Badie
Rick Badie joined The Atlanta Journal-Constitution as an education reporter in 1997. A South Georgia native, he’s covered the region’s immigrant communities, was a feature obituary writer and opinion columnist for the AJC’s Gwinnett edition.
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An advocacy group has said people should be allowed to vote on the plan to build a new home for the Atlanta Falcons using public funding. But with a referendum looking increasingly unlikely, an official with that group questions the way city officials and leaders have handled the issue. Meanwhile, a hotel executive gives the history and structure of the hotel-motel tax in question.
