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Protesters outside of the Cobb County School District office show their opposition to masking children in Cobb County schools for the upcoming school year on Thursday, May 20, 2021, in Marietta, Georgia . Many community members waited in line to speak at the school board meeting to voice their support for unmasking. CHRISTINA MATACOTTA FOR THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION
Masks: Science on one side. Parents on other.
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Edwin C. Atkins (left) points out the grave of an anonymous prisoner buried about 90 years ago near where the Georgia State Prison Farm once stood in Milledgeville. With him are state Rep. Rick Williams and Mary Esther Lord Smith. Photo by Bill Torpy
OPINION: The ‘sin’ of forgetting Georgia’s graveyard of the executed
April 28, 2020 Gainesville - The top of the poultry monument is topped with a statue of a life-sized chicken at Poultry Park in Gainesville on Tuesday, April 28, 2020. (Hyosub Shin / Hyosub.Shin@ajc.com)
OPINION: In Gainesville, the GOP still dominates a changing population
U.S. Rep. Buddy Carter, R-Pooler, a pharmacist, has urged Americans to get vaccinated. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Opinion: The GOP’s Trump vaccine conundrum
A Cobb County SWAT team took a man into custody on Monday morning, July 19, 2021, following an hourslong standoff, police said. (John Spink / John.Spink@ajc.com)
OPINION: Atlanta crime-control pendulum swings toward hard line. Again
Students rally for fairer funding of charter schools during National School Choice Week.
Opinion: Provision in federal spending bill jeopardizes charter school funding
Lovette Russell completes The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Peachtree Road Race on July 4, 2021, just a few days after the second anniversary of her double lung transplant. Russell is battling scleroderma, an autoimmune disease that causes a tightening of the skin and connective tissue. (Courtesy of Lovette Russell)
Opinion: Positivity pushes woman past health hurdles to Peachtree race
Mar. 9, 2017 - Atlanta - Sen. John Albers, R-Roswell, who is a volunteer firefighter, gives a fist pump to firefighters in the Senate gallery after the passage of House Bill 146, sponsored by state Rep. Micah Gravley, R-Douglasville, and backed by Speaker David Ralston, R-Blue Ridge. The Georgia Senate unanimously backed a measure Thursday offering firefighters special insurance policies to cover treatment of certain work-related cancers, bringing it a crucial step closer toward final passage. The 30th legislative day of the 2017 Georgia General Assembly. BOB ANDRES /BANDRES@AJC.COM
OPINION: A senator’s fight to save his son
Local school boards around the country are increasingly becoming cauldrons of anger and political division, boiling with disputes over such issues as COVID-19 mask rules. (Hunter D'Antuono/Flathead Beacon via AP)
Will schools listen to pediatricians or anti-maskers?
July 15, 2021 Lawrenceville - Portrait of Lavell Hewitt, a new homeowner who was lucky enough to score a home after selling his house to Opendoor at a higher than market price, outside his new home in Lawrenceville on Thursday, July 15, 2021. (Hyosub Shin / Hyosub.Shin@ajc.com)
Opinion: How can anyone afford to buy a home in Atlanta anymore?
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