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    OPINION: Awful truth about Atlanta police tactics to deter violence
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    OPINION: Georgia election ‘reforms’ or ‘restrictions’? Answer is clear
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    OPINION: In stitches over crazy, competing Downtown Connector plans
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    OPINION: Street violence a bad rap for Atlanta’s music industry
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    OPINION: Atlanta’s jail plan a feel-good, fake fix for a real problem
    ONLY ON AJC: TORPY AT LARGE
    OPINION: Legal conflicts work both ways for Fulton DA Fani Willis
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    OPINION: In Georgia, elections can be murder
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    OPINION: City gadfly now armed and (more) dangerous with a law degree
    ONLY ON AJC: TORPY AT LARGE
    OPINION: Conspiracy theories endanger lives and democracy. Believe it
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    OPINION: Can’t new Atlanta tree ordinance be rooted in preservation?
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    OPINION: City of Buckhead | A bad idea born from real grievance
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    OPINION: A stroll through downtown Atlanta amid our new sur-reality
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    OPINION: When a Regular Republican goes all StoptheSteal
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    OPINION: Will Macy’s exit make Greenbriar close? It’s an open question
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    OPINION: Even OxiClean can’t remove Trump’s stain on the Georgia GOP
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    OPINION: Stopping the Steal. Trump’s steal
    ONLY ON AJC: TORPY AT LARGE
    OPINION: Atlanta mayoral race awaits, but who’ll run is wait and see
    ONLY ON AJC: TORPY AT LARGE
    OPINION: Metro ATL eateries hunger for light at the end of the tunnel
    ONLY ON AJC: TORPY AT LARGE
    OPINION: Atlanta man happy to buy newspaper company? Must be fake joy
    ONLY ON AJC: TORPY AT LARGE
    OPINION: 44 years on Georgia’s death row — and counting
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    OPINION: Murder, mayhem, donuts and a crazed year in public safety
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    OPINION: Different wake-up call | Awake now to issue of leaf blowers
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    OPINION: Atlanta lounge owner’s horror when bricks and dreams crumble
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    OPINION: Crazy is as crazy does in Georgia post-election dystopia
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    OPINION: A mystery man’s enigmatic venture, Underground Atlanta
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    OPINION: People head out. Guard gets dropped. COVID counts climb
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    OPINION: Justifiable horror over Arbery case as justifiable homicide
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    OPINION | Georgia’s U.S. senators: Profiles in cowardice
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    OPINION: Why so many Georgia DAs got dumped this election year
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    OPINION: From Atlanta ‘water boys’ to Trump, all in a political season
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    OPINION | Downtown Atlanta residents to mayor: Hey, remember us?
    ONLY ON AJC: TORPY AT LARGE
    OPINION: Flushed with pride that fix is in, finally, for DeKalb sewers
    ONLY ON AJC: TORPY AT LARGE
    OPINION | A scary place to be: Atlanta murder rate equals Chicago’s
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    OPINION | God, glory and politics: Did the Lord send Donald Trump?
    ONLY ON AJC; TORPY AT LARGE
    OPINION: Arthur Blank’s $200M gift to Children’s Healthcare is no game
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    OPINION: Atlanta ex-CFO shot down by his hubris, not his machine guns
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    OPINION: How bad is Atlanta street racing? ‘Put the vehicles in jail’
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