Tuesday, February 19, 2013
News First Slice: 2/19/13: Atlanta streetcar to start laying down tracks next month
Posted by Max Blau @maxblau on Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 8:36 AM
The days of the Atlanta streetcar may finally be upon us. "We expect to begin laying [tracks] down early next month," Tom Weyandt, Atlanta's senior policy adviser for transportation, tells WABE.
Saporta Report explored the rise of suburban poverty in Atlanta, which has grown by 53 percent since 2000.
Just when you thought Georgia lawmakers could finally come to grips with the Civil War's outcome (some 148 years after the fact), state Rep. Jason Spencer, R-Woodbine, has rekindled the battle between federal and state laws.
New car title tax laws will take effect on March 1, ushering in an era of excruciatingly long lines. You've been warned.
Politifact says that Congressman and Senatorial candidate Paul Broun, R-Athens, lied from the pit of hell was wrong about being the first person to call President Obama a "socialist."
Finally, watch out for those flying MARTA-bus-diverting manhole covers.
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