First Slice 11-3-14: State Legislatures, including Georgia’s, are scary and strange places

Plus, meet the man who owns a chunk of English Avenue


They’re also vitally important. Allow John Oliver to explain.

Candidates have less than 24 hours to convince you to cast a ballot in their favor. Or we might have to endure many more weeks of ads to decide a runoff.

Big Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, Atlanta’s oldest black church, is interested in redeveloping four acres of its property along the Atlanta Streetcar route into mixed-use with affordable housing.

Meet Rick Warren. The real estate investor owns many homes in English Avenue. Not all are in great shape.

New video made available of the film shoot where Midnight Rider crew member Sarah Jones shows her and others fleeing the tracks moments before the train collided with the set. Jones was reportedly struck by shrapnel and then fell on the rails.

R.I.P., Doug Allen, a landscape architect and longtime leader of Georgia Tech’s College of Architecture.

Georgia transportation officials are issuing a moratorium on the installation of a specific type of guardrail that has been related to several motorists’ deaths around the country.

In his first interview since being fired, the Centers for Disease Control security guard who rode in an elevator with President Barack Obama says he was scolded for taking a photo of the presidential limousine. After the elevator ride, Kenneth Tate was called a convicted felon, which he and his former employer say isn’t true, and dragged into a larger debate about the competency of the Secret Service.

Better hope your great-grandkids learn how to swim! Mankind needs to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions to zero by the end of the century, a panel of hundreds of scientists said this weekend, or face irreversible effects from climate change.






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