The chinks Shirley's armor (Creative Loafing Atlanta) bi13090090 The curtain rising on Shirley Franklin?s final months as mayor. With a fiscal crisis that means reduced services and a proposed tax hike, she fights to retain her legacy as the great reformer of Atlanta?s city government. By Scott Henry.Just before noon on the last day of April, four Atlanta City Council members converged on a hastily erected podium City Hall's marble atrium. They were ..

Georgia Kia plant make small, fuel-efficient cars (Atlanta Journal-Const bi13090090 An auto plant under construction West Point make small sedans instead of SUVs, another sign that worldwide hikes fuel prices have come home to roost Georgia and elsewhere, according to reports. In a change from former plans, Kia Motors Corp. now says build fuel-efficient cars at new plant Georgia, said an official Hyundai Motor Group, Kia's parent ..

Atlanta Journal-Constitution Ranks Ebix 2nd Amongst the Top 100 Public Compan bi13090090 ATLANTA----Ebix announced today that has been ranked 2nd amongst the Top 100 public companies Georgia by Atlanta Journal-Constitution that publication's annual performance score board for 2007

Emory to break ground on new public health building (Atlanta Journal-Constitu bi13090090 Emory University officials are scheduled to break ground Friday on a new building for the Rollins School of Public Health. The Claudia Nance Rollins Building provide the school additional space to accelerate teaching and collaborative research key areas, including global health, predictive health, infectious disease, cancer, diabetes and other chronic diseases. When the building ..

Robotic vigilante: Homemade 'Bum Bot' patrols Atlanta (Carroll County Online) bi13090090 ATLANTA - Cars passing O'Terrill's pub screech to a halt at the sight of a 300-pound, waist-high robot marked "SECURITY" rolling through downtown long after dark

Brookings Institution: Atlanta bottom half of cities small carbon foo bi13090090 Metro Atlanta was ranked No. 68 among the largest 100 cities the United States for having a small carbon footprint, according to research by the Brookings Institution

Be nice, says Atlanta City Council president (Atlanta Journal-Constitution) bi13090090 Atlanta City Council President Lisa Borders channeled Aretha Franklin a recent message to council members. R-E-S-P-E-C-T. Borders wrote a letter to the 15-member council Friday, saying some of them have treated Mayor Shirley Franklin's staff "hostility" recent weeks during hearings on the city's budget crisis. Atlanta has a projected $140 million budget shortfall for the fiscal year ..

Radiotherapy Clinics of Georgia and Atlanta Braves Team Up for MLB Prostate C bi13090090 Radiotherapy Clinics of Georgia (RCOG) and the Atlanta Braves have teamed up for Prostate Cancer Awareness Day to be held at Turner Field on Wednesday, June 4, 2008

KING MEMORIAL FUND-RAISER SET FOR JUNE 19 IN ATLANTA (Atlanta Journal-Constit bi13090090 Planners of the Martin Luther King Jr. memorial bring fund-raising drive to the hometown of the civil rights leader June 19 at a "Dream Dinner" scheduled for Atlanta's Hyatt Regency. The $250-a-ticket event, Grammy-winning gospel and R&B singer BeBe Winans providing the entertainment, part of a series of "Dream Dinners" aimed at wrapping up financing for the $100 million ..

Public face of Cape Coral police Dyan Lee leaving (The News-Press) bi13090090 It was just over two years ago that Dyan Lee walked away from a 15-year career broadcast journalism and signed on as the public information..

Greenbrier airport to cut flights (The Register-Herald) bi13090090 U.S. Airways Express, serviced two flights a day from Pittsburgh and Charlotte, N.C., has pulled out of Greenbrier Valley Airport, leaving the facility only one flight a day and the fate of eight employees up the air

Technical college system gets new name (Rome News-Tribune) bi13090090 The state?s system of technical colleges has a new name. Gov. Sonny Perdue signed legislation that changed the moniker from the Department of Technical and Adult Education to the Technical College System of Georgia . Perdue performed a ceremonial signing Thursday at the system?s Student of the Year award ceremony Atlanta. ?Georgia?s technical colleges play a vital role not only educating ..

Crossing over (Fort Wayne Journal Gazette) bi13090090 Here he comes. Chasing history and chased by it. A black man trying to capture the ultimate American job: the presidency. In Indiana day they are screaming: O-bah-muh, O-bah-muh, O-bah-muh

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