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(Steve Swisher/NBC)" width="1260" height="840" class=" " style="display:none" fetchpriority="auto"/><div class="c-placeholder" style="display:flex;aspect-ratio:1.5;max-width:78.75rem;max-height:52.5rem;object-fit:cover;background:#f8f8f8;justify-content:center;align-items:center"><img alt="Placeholder Image" src="/pf/resources/logos/AJC/placeholder.svg?d=2008" style="width:20%;box-shadow:none"/></div></div><p class="photo-credit-text">Credit: Steve Swisher/NBC</p></div></div></div></a><div class="story-info"><a class="headline ttd " href="/things-to-do/georgia-entertainment-scene/nbcs-mystery-drama-grosse-pointe-garden-society-digs-into-secrets-lies/TQFHECNCJBFM5N57OX6OSDXBLM/"><h3>NBC’s mystery drama ‘Grosse Pointe Garden Society’ digs into secrets, lies</h3></a><p class="description">"Grosse Pointe Garden Society," set in the ritzy suburb of Detroit but shot in metro Atlanta, is a frothy murder mystery revolving around four disparate friends.</p><span class="isTease article-timestamp">19m ago</span></div></div></div><div class="column-2"><div class="row"><div class=" c-story-tease hide-description "><a href="/things-to-do/where-to-celebrate-atlanta-uniteds-season-opener-this-weekend/LHH45EYO5VAIJGY7YS5GCNMZKY/" class="story-image "><div class="c-image-component image-landscape"><div class="image-component-image "><div class="enlargeImage-wrapper"><div class="lazyload-wrapper"><img src="https://www.ajc.com/resizer/v2/https%3A%2F%2Fd1fegwn2wjh0cs.cloudfront.net%2F02-20-2025%2Ft_2b0e5c020b9d426384f4fa0109cdb32b_name_s3___ajc_arc_photo_integration_Freelancer_031923_ATL_UNITED_HS19.jpg?auth=c582551472e5509c6d82da813f4575e8886a80c32bbcdbe8292aa918818b256e&width=330&height=330&smart=true" alt="ajc.com" width="330" height="330" class=" square-image " style="display:none" fetchpriority="auto"/><div class="c-placeholder" style="display:flex;aspect-ratio:1;max-width:20.625rem;max-height:20.625rem;object-fit:cover;background:#f8f8f8;justify-content:center;align-items:center"><img alt="Placeholder Image" src="/pf/resources/logos/AJC/placeholder.svg?d=2008" style="width:20%;box-shadow:none"/></div></div></div></div></div></a><div class="story-info"><a class="headline " href="/things-to-do/where-to-celebrate-atlanta-uniteds-season-opener-this-weekend/LHH45EYO5VAIJGY7YS5GCNMZKY/"><h3>Watch party roundup: Where to celebrate Atlanta United’s season opener this weekend</h3></a><p class="description">The Mercedes-Benz Stadium is hosting the Atlanta United, Georgia's team of soccer superstars, season opener on Saturday. Here are all of the weekend's biggest watch parties.</p><span class="isTease article-timestamp">19m ago</span></div></div><div class=" c-story-tease hide-description "><a href="/things-to-do/georgia-entertainment-scene/why-did-atlanta-1980s-power-pop-band-the-producers-just-miss-major-stardom/E4EO3JDAVZAHTPQISYJA56LCFI/" class="story-image "><div class="c-image-component image-landscape"><div class="image-component-image "><div class="enlargeImage-wrapper"><div class="lazyload-wrapper"><img src="https://www.ajc.com/resizer/v2/CXQHBCM7RFHNJFXPW7SN73Q3N4.JPG?auth=8dfce2964fcdb3949927290c1a2d95955915568e6f481c34a724cafae3597f9a&width=330&height=330&smart=true" alt="Promotional shot of Atlanta-based band the Producers -- from left, Wayne “Famous” McNatt, Van Temple, Kyle Henderson, Bryan Holmes. (Courtesy of Chris Anderson)" width="330" height="330" class=" square-image " style="display:none" fetchpriority="auto"/><div class="c-placeholder" style="display:flex;aspect-ratio:1;max-width:20.625rem;max-height:20.625rem;object-fit:cover;background:#f8f8f8;justify-content:center;align-items:center"><img alt="Placeholder Image" src="/pf/resources/logos/AJC/placeholder.svg?d=2008" style="width:20%;box-shadow:none"/></div></div><p class="photo-credit-text">Credit: Chris Anderson</p></div></div></div></a><div class="story-info"><a class="headline " href="/things-to-do/georgia-entertainment-scene/why-did-atlanta-1980s-power-pop-band-the-producers-just-miss-major-stardom/E4EO3JDAVZAHTPQISYJA56LCFI/"><h3>How did Atlanta 1980s power pop band the Producers just miss major stardom?</h3></a><span class="isTease article-timestamp">19m ago</span></div></div></div><div class="row"><div class=" c-story-tease hide-description "><a href="/uatl/malcolm-xs/OR3VS2YXXZEZLCCBQOKJBAG7HE/" class="story-image "><div class="c-image-component image-landscape"><div class="image-component-image "><div class="enlargeImage-wrapper"><div class="lazyload-wrapper"><img src="https://www.ajc.com/resizer/v2/QJF7XGJCLFDBBH72Y6HAY4OEXM.jpg?auth=18b1257149684dd4e76e472743af0edd22c5979dac6ce2ae61aad3dec408ff22&width=330&height=330&smart=true" alt="What you need to know about Malcolm X" width="330" height="330" class=" square-image " style="display:none" fetchpriority="auto"/><div class="c-placeholder" style="display:flex;aspect-ratio:1;max-width:20.625rem;max-height:20.625rem;object-fit:cover;background:#f8f8f8;justify-content:center;align-items:center"><img alt="Placeholder Image" src="/pf/resources/logos/AJC/placeholder.svg?d=2008" style="width:20%;box-shadow:none"/></div></div></div></div></div></a><div class="story-info"><a class="headline " href="/uatl/malcolm-xs/OR3VS2YXXZEZLCCBQOKJBAG7HE/"><h3>In 1961, Malcolm X took an eye-opening trip to Atlanta</h3></a><p class="description">Malcolm X had been a public critic of King and rejected the Nobel Peace Prize winner’s direction on race relations.</p><span class="isTease article-timestamp">1h ago</span></div></div><div class=" c-story-tease hide-description "><a href="/things-to-do/winfred-rembert-documented-the-jim-crow-era-with-deeply-personal-paintings/XAW3XZ7OYVGQZJPTQUMZPA6HBU/" class="story-image "><div class="c-image-component image-landscape"><div class="image-component-image "><div class="enlargeImage-wrapper"><div class="lazyload-wrapper"><img src="https://www.ajc.com/resizer/v2/JDM6ILJ7YFBYZCBGFZ4N66DI6I.jpg?auth=0fca23f2205a82a8e6167a43e48418e4836b29a9b95ea25a9aa3c7dde840cba8&width=330&height=330&smart=true" alt="Winfred Rembert's acclaimed memoir, "Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist's Memoir of the Jim Crow South" received the Pulitzer Prize for biography a year after he died. Courtesy of Bloomsbury" width="330" height="330" class=" square-image " style="display:none" fetchpriority="auto"/><div class="c-placeholder" style="display:flex;aspect-ratio:1;max-width:20.625rem;max-height:20.625rem;object-fit:cover;background:#f8f8f8;justify-content:center;align-items:center"><img alt="Placeholder Image" src="/pf/resources/logos/AJC/placeholder.svg?d=2008" style="width:20%;box-shadow:none"/></div></div><p class="photo-credit-text">Credit: Bloomsbury</p></div></div></div></a><div class="story-info"><a class="headline " href="/things-to-do/winfred-rembert-documented-the-jim-crow-era-with-deeply-personal-paintings/XAW3XZ7OYVGQZJPTQUMZPA6HBU/"><h3>Winfred Rembert documented the Jim Crow era with deeply personal paintings</h3></a><p class="description">Today, Rembert’s painting of a lively scene inside a juke joint in his hometown of Cuthbert, “The Dirty Spoon Café,” is on display in the High Museum of Art in Atlanta.</p><span class="isTease article-timestamp">1h ago</span></div></div></div><div class="row"><div class=" c-story-tease hide-description "><a href="/opinion/columnists/rhone-georgia-sheriff-shouldnt-rely-on-badge-to-avoid-accountability/Q3SFGAQVSNEGXEEXPJFDJZAGZI/" class="story-image "><div class="c-image-component image-portrait"><div class="image-component-image "><div class="enlargeImage-wrapper"><div class="lazyload-wrapper"><img src="https://www.ajc.com/resizer/v2/QPLIPEKD7RELXJ32EITFULNYS4.jpg?auth=db101b2efced9ed3c3c491947761359de01fdbe6549ad7eb4226156342735601&width=330&height=330&smart=true" alt="In April 2022, Darius Rice, a former Marine, was arrested and charged with sexual battery. In February 2025, a federal judge ruled his $11 million civil lawsuit for excessive force can move forward. 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Jackson on the set of "Fight Night" in Atlanta. Burrows served as the on-set armorer. (Courtesy of Alan D'Antoni)" width="1260" height="840" class=" " style="display:none" fetchpriority="auto"/><div class="c-placeholder" style="display:flex;aspect-ratio:1.5;max-width:78.75rem;max-height:52.5rem;object-fit:cover;background:#f8f8f8;justify-content:center;align-items:center"><img alt="Placeholder Image" src="/pf/resources/logos/AJC/placeholder.svg?d=2008" style="width:20%;box-shadow:none"/></div></div><p class="photo-credit-text">Credit: Alan D' Antoni</p></div></div></div></a><div class="story-info"><a class="headline " href="/news/business/inside-georgias-film-industry-gordon-burrows-strives-for-safety-on-film-sets/V7M5OQFJS5C2HEDXYBKQYLIDU4/"><h3>Meet Gordon Burrows, an armorer striving for safety on Georgia film sets</h3></a><p class="description">As an armorer, he’s in charge of handling, storing and maintaining all firearms on set and educating the cast and crewmembers on how they’re being used.</p></div></div></div><span class="separator-line"></span><button 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When he was old enough, Rembert joined her working in the fields. He missed a lot of schooling and fell far behind, so he busied himself in class by drawing."},{"_id":"XYMY2CXB5VHUNEPO3YAY54DE5Q","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739999734715},"type":"text","content":"A friend<b> </b>introduced Rembert to a bustling part of Cuthbert on Hamilton Avenue, where Black entrepreneurs operated cafés and juke joints and sold moonshine. Rembert danced and played pool there, later writing about the eccentric characters he met. Rembert’s vivid paintings of those people and places are joyous, even celebratory."},{"_id":"NH3FPHKJWFGPZNJ6WO5J6BTTBA","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739999734716},"type":"text","content":"Rembert also wrote about the discrimination, humiliation and violence he and other Black people faced in Cuthbert. The city, he said, featured a restaurant run by the Ku Klux Klan. He witnessed white policemen mistake his great-aunt’s son for someone else and beat him so severely that they knocked one of his eyes out of its socket."},{"_id":"EECMDMY4CFCG5A6AICMIITA3PQ","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739999734717},"type":"text","content":"As a teenager, Rembert joined the civil rights movement and began demonstrating in Americus. White men wielding shotguns began to beat the demonstrators. When Rembert heard a gunshot, he ran down an alley and found a car with the keys left inside. 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That involved being placed in what he called the “sweatbox,” a cramped space where he was forced to crouch in the intense heat and darkness."},{"_id":"MMF6RPRXTNEWND4PR5HPMNRHUE","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[{"pos":223,"comment":"Georgia "}],"comments":[],"_id":1739999734722},"type":"text","content":"Two things happened while Rembert was imprisoned that dramatically altered the course of his life. First, he learned to tool leather from a fellow inmate. Second, Rembert saw Patsy while he was building a road as part of a prison work program. They wrote each other letters when he was behind bars. When he finally got out of prison, they married,<b> </b>moved north<b> </b>and raised a family, eventually settling in New Haven, Connecticut."},{"_id":"5OZY5L6FHFHOJAG7RPKW6U4YCU","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1740009895804},"type":"text","content":"Rembert was imprisoned in 1987 on drug-related conspiracy charges before he changed course and began painting. He completed his first painting on carved leather as a gift for a friend in 1997, when he was in his 50s. Winfred Rembert credited his wife, Patsy, with encouraging him to paint. 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If there was credible evidence that a Black man sexually battered a white woman, the case would have been prosecuted and that man would be behind bars."},{"_id":"YQCOS5MBNJFBZP5674ELBWLYVM","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1740019570596},"type":"text","content":"Attorneys for Rice have compared his case to that of Emmett Till, the 14-year-old Black youth who died at the hands of white men for allegedly flirting with a white woman."},{"_id":"FXQDIFLK4NAW7OJ7DBHUQG7GHU","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1740019570597},"type":"text","content":"Till lost his life over what his accuser decades later acknowledged was an exaggeration, if not an outright lie."},{"_id":"4NS4KYLECBFCRHRHTDPD6PVASY","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1740019570598},"type":"text","content":"We may never know what really happened that day in 1955 in Money, 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Forty percent of earnings above that have to be refunded to customers, but Georgia Power can keep 20% as profit and use the remaining 40% to pay down asset liabilities."},{"_id":"ITTLXQSZRBHGJAHQTEIWYXE26U","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1740068671475},"type":"text","content":"Womack said in order to meet the new energy demands while ensuring reliability, the company has to charge ratepayers for investments in its system."},{"_id":"SCHVMIVSARFHXPPAVETWJRUMCE","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1740068671476},"type":"text","content":"“We have a number of stakeholders that we have to respond to,” Womack said of the parallel increases in profits and customer bills. Among the company’s stakeholders are its shareholders."},{"_id":"DMONGJNGV5FYRLRAN4XOR65H6Y","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1740076815849},"type":"text","content":"“We try to balance all of that, and we think we do a pretty good job at it,” he said."},{"_id":"XE4MYKGUZBC25A73WTNICLQYII","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1740068671477},"type":"text","content":"In the fourth quarter, revenue<b> </b>increased, but that<b> </b>was offset by increases in operational and maintenance expenses and other costs, the company said. As a result, quarterly net income declined."},{"_id":"MSB6JV2W25CYRKH23PAPC3KWYM","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1740068671478},"type":"text","content":"Some of that increased spending was caused by Hurricane Helene, which Dan Tucker, Southern’s CFO, called the most destructive storm in Georgia Power history. He said current damage cost estimates are around $850 million. How much of that gets passed on to Georgia Power customers will be decided by state regulators, he added."},{"_id":"RDO3AKP7Z5AANEKZKG6COHELHU","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1740068671479},"type":"text","content":"Like many businesses, Womack said the company was keeping a close eye on policy shifts from the White House that could affect regulation and trade. He reiterated the company’s goal of achieving net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 while indicating that its generation decisions were driven primarily by economics. Southern Co. has been <a href=\"https://energyandpolicy.org/southern-company-extends-life-of-coal-plants-to-power-data-centers-appears-to-abandon-net-zero-goal/\" target=\"_blank\">criticized by environmental groups</a> for adding <a href=\"https://www.ajc.com/news/business/regulators-clear-path-for-georgia-powers-new-oil-and-gas-units-at-plant-yates/EWOIOLVHENHBLDWELVSIXQUH7A/\" target=\"_blank\">more gas generation</a> and seeking to extend the life of coal plants previously slated for closure, <a href=\"https://www.ajc.com/news/georgia-powers-plan-for-the-future-add-renewables-keep-burning-coal/CJYINXDOJ5HLFEWMTSNC2WDC4I/\" target=\"_blank\">including Plant Scherer near Macon and Plant Bowen outside Cartersville</a>."},{"_id":"OJ3HFDAMYZDRLAJ6ASKTBNEUG4","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[{"date":"2025-02-20T18:38:09.514Z","start":81,"end":96,"text":"parentheses instead of brackets in quotes, per AJC style","user":"Amanda DeArmon","email":"Amanda.DeArmon@ajc.com"}],"_id":1740068671480},"type":"text","content":"“You’ll probably see some coal plant extensions for a few years,” he said. “That (2050 net-zero) goal is there, but it’s a goal.”"},{"_id":"NS56NMYR4JFWTBZXDCVOQ44YWY","additional_properties":{"comments":[],"_id":1740076815854},"type":"divider"},{"_id":"PQYAB5JX3RBSNBEI4GW463W24Y","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1740068671482},"type":"text","content":"A note of disclosure"},{"_id":"WHKPBDZFO5CJRIKDTPMZ2ORL2Y","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1740068671483},"type":"text","content":"This coverage is supported by a partnership with Green South Foundation and Journalism Funding Partners. 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Being in Target helped sustain Play Pits and Powell’s 15 employees after customers started directing their dollars elsewhere in recent years."},{"_id":"UVYFGH4X7FDTTI4NEEWN5NGIVM","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1740051072566},"type":"text","content":"Powell said her online and in-store sales have jumped considerably in the month since Target made the DEI announcement. As a business owner, she understands where boycott supporters<b> </b>like Mackey are coming from, as well as those choosing the targeted buying route."},{"_id":"LPLBNILDARCN7DW2D2DEM2OT7I","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1740051072567},"type":"text","content":"“I think more than anything, Black people are tired. We are tired of being dismissed. 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The program covers different services for different people in different parts of the country — and enrollees may interact with private insurance companies without “Medicaid” in their names, leaving some unaware that they’re on the program at all."},{"_id":"E356DKNRL5DJTLW6QOH5VQLTLY","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739984364136},"type":"text","content":"Although President Donald Trump <a href=\"https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/01/31/congress/trump-love-and-cherish-medicaid-00201893\">promised to “love and cherish” Medicaid</a>, Republicans in Congress last week announced federal budget proposals that could dramatically curtail the program. As that debate begins, here is what you need to know about Medicaid."},{"_id":"DDWQ2WLN6VHRFI7ROA7URIBPNM","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739984364137},"type":"text","content":"<b>What is Medicaid, and how is it different from Medicare?</b>"},{"_id":"2MMLZEUPTJDFDMKVEG4YV3BQBU","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739984364138},"type":"text","content":"Medicaid and Medicare were created by the same legislation — an addition to the Social Security Act — that was signed into law by President Lyndon B. 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Such people are commonly called “dual eligibles,” because they qualify for both programs."},{"_id":"V2MXLSGNVVAWHGX62SCXTCVXBY","additional_properties":{"comments":[],"_id":"5ZYO7BXNW5HQHFKG3JTKNQQ7MM"},"type":"interstitial_link","content":"Trump’s return puts Medicaid on the chopping block","url":"https://www.ajc.com/news/trumps-return-puts-medicaid-on-the-chopping-block/5MLZLTH7BVG3XHWXPQ7K6COHRY/"},{"_id":"4JASRD5V2JDV5BWC3HOEGADXYY","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739984364142},"type":"text","content":"<b>Who is on Medicaid?</b>"},{"_id":"34MXB2NG7BFPFGE53O3JO2FDGM","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739984364143},"type":"text","content":"More than 79 million people receive services from Medicaid or the closely related Children’s Health Insurance Program. That represents about 20% of the total population of the United States. Most enrollees qualify because of low incomes."},{"_id":"G5YXUXSJ5JC6NC44EL7LFUIQDM","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739984364144},"type":"text","content":"About 40% of all children in the country are covered by Medicaid or CHIP, created in 1997. Both pay for services such as routine checkups, vaccinations, and hospital stays. Medicaid also covers pregnant people before and after they give birth and pays for more than 40% of all births."},{"_id":"6IMURWEHMFAA7D22BTHKAH4HM4","additional_properties":{"nofollow":false,"selectedStory":false,"comments":[],"sponsored":false,"_id":1739997231294,"openInNewTab":true},"type":"interstitial_link","content":"How Medicaid helps mothers, caregivers and children","url":"https://www.ajc.com/partner/how-medicaid-helps-mothers-caregivers-and-children/HGF5C4T3IJCGJNW35S2IZQ5XDU/"},{"_id":"ZD7Z7ISTWZH5DPW7UN22S7KBLE","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739984364145},"type":"text","content":"Medicaid also covers people with disabilities or complex medical needs and helps them afford services that allow them to live independently in community settings, outside of institutions such as nursing homes and state-run hospitals."},{"_id":"2CLOJ2XHFZAU7LIJLLF3QOL5HM","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739984364146},"type":"text","content":"The program serves a diverse cross section of the country. About 40% of people under 65 who use Medicaid are white, 30% are Hispanic, 19% are Black, and 1% are Indigenous people."},{"_id":"34QSQSKUBZDKVDAUCEFS675PTM","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739984364147},"type":"text","content":"Federal Medicaid dollars cannot be used to cover immigrants who are in the U.S. without legal permission, though some states, as well as Washington, D.C., <a href=\"https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/states-health-coverage-medicaid-immigrants-expansion/\">have used their own funds</a> to extend Medicaid coverage to such individuals. California was the first state to do so."},{"_id":"OTLJEUBBIJEALDR275IYLWRPWQ","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739984364148},"type":"text","content":"<b>What are the income qualifications?</b>"},{"_id":"QG6JRKUWQRBXTGQVUMHW2LXR5U","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739984364149},"type":"text","content":"Eligibility generally depends on whether a person is low income, and states have different ways of defining that. For a four-adult household without dependent children, the current national median coverage level is $44,367."},{"_id":"XXDPRLPE25BGVOBLZJNNBXV6PQ","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739984364150},"type":"text","content":"The Affordable Care Act, often called Obamacare, which passed in 2010, allowed more people to qualify for Medicaid on the basis of income. This is what is known as “Medicaid expansion.”"},{"_id":"7JZJRCNXUVBZNFWK2CTOUDZRDA","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739984364151},"type":"text","content":"The law offered states a sizable incentive to add more people to their programs: The federal government would pitch in more money per enrollee to help cover them."},{"_id":"Q7RT3PW54ZB3HJ6RGXL44V3QRE","additional_properties":{"nofollow":false,"selectedStory":false,"comments":[],"sponsored":false,"_id":1739997231302,"openInNewTab":true},"type":"interstitial_link","content":"OPINION: Closing Georgia’s health care coverage gap is good economic policy","url":"https://www.ajc.com/opinion/opinion-closing-georgias-health-care-coverage-gap-is-good-economic-policy/4UKKSMSRNBBNPHJVDDL5TD7X5A/"},{"_id":"GBYQO5OIF5AXLNMG4C653VEXJQ","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739984364152},"type":"text","content":"The intention behind the expansion was to close gaps in health insurance programs for the millions of Americans who don’t get coverage through an employer. Medicaid would cover people with extremely low incomes, and as their incomes rose, they could move to subsidized health plans sold through the Affordable Care Act’s exchanges."},{"_id":"E6UJTZEZONGFVB3JNZDG6KD2KI","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739984364153},"type":"text","content":"In 2012, the U.S. Supreme Court said the decision of whether to expand the program would be <a href=\"https://www.kff.org/affordable-care-act/issue-brief/a-guide-to-the-supreme-courts-decision/\">left up to individual states</a>. Today, 40 states and the District of Columbia — led by Democrats and Republicans alike — have opted in."},{"_id":"6I7GP6WVQFH3XOSPQMTXMRSSZY","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739984364154},"type":"text","content":"In the <a href=\"https://www.kff.org/status-of-state-medicaid-expansion-decisions/\">10 states that haven’t expanded</a> Medicaid to more low-income adults, the median earnings qualification level is $5,947 a year for a single-person household in 2025. Those who make more are not eligible."},{"_id":"Q4EEJKXAOVFFTPOOYFIHF33XQA","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739984364155},"type":"text","content":"Adults in those states who make too much for Medicaid can also make too little to qualify for help buying plans on the Affordable Care Act exchanges, leaving some unable to afford coverage. An estimated 1.5 million fall into this coverage gap."},{"_id":"3OFEJUCMW5CQNNLRWBGYZ4IUSE","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739984364156},"type":"text","content":"<b>Where does the money to pay for it come from?</b>"},{"_id":"LQ42GOX7PBHX7N5PAUTMCHKYLE","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739984364157},"type":"text","content":"The federal government pays most of the cost of Medicaid by matching a portion of what states spend."},{"_id":"ANDRC2O77ZDBBAP7NIVZAXCQEU","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739984364158},"type":"text","content":"Currently, the federal government matches at least 50% of state spending and offers states more money for some services and enrollees — for instance, for children and pregnant women."},{"_id":"FWRRS4PL2VERLAFV3M7ODPU6BY","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739984364159},"type":"text","content":"Less wealthy states — determined by considering residents’ per capita incomes — receive a higher match, translating to a higher percentage of federal dollars. In Mississippi, for instance, the federal government picks up <a href=\"https://files.kff.org/attachment/fact-sheet-medicaid-state-MS#:~:text=The%20independent%20source%20for%20health%20policy%20research%2C%20polling%2C%20and%20news.&text=In%20MS%2C%20the%20federal%20government,in%20ARPA%20fiscal%20incentive%20payments\">77% of the cost</a> of Medicaid."},{"_id":"D7MALDA7MZB5PBY6BERMVVBBSU","additional_properties":{"nofollow":false,"selectedStory":false,"comments":[],"sponsored":false,"_id":1739997231311,"openInNewTab":true},"type":"interstitial_link","content":"Brian Kemp seeks limited Medicaid expansion to cover some parents of young kids","url":"https://www.ajc.com/politics/brian-kemp-seeks-limited-medicaid-expansion-to-cover-some-parents-of-young-kids/CLMOTPF4FJHLPCGSSE74DWTLXU/"},{"_id":"425KWSRFPBDFVAHHIZWHU2FIIU","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739984364160},"type":"text","content":"States also receive a 90% match from the federal government for enrollees eligible for Medicaid under the ACA’s expansion."},{"_id":"WEV5WY54KNCRND3HQ2YMMTXXCU","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739984364161},"type":"text","content":"There is no limit on how much states can spend on the program, and hundreds of billions of federal dollars flow into states each year. In 2023, states <a href=\"https://www.kff.org/medicaid/state-indicator/medicaid-expenditures-as-a-percent-of-total-state-expenditures-by-fund/?currentTimeframe=0&sortModel=%7B%22colId%22:%22Location%22,%22sort%22:%22asc%22%7D\">spent about 15%</a> of their own budgets on Medicaid."},{"_id":"DPI4BRAPXVH4HIQWEJIZYO5XRY","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739984364162},"type":"text","content":"<b>What does that money pay for?</b>"},{"_id":"63QA3HDOYJEMXBFJ4LRZGYJ6XQ","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739984364163},"type":"text","content":"Federal law requires all state Medicaid programs to cover certain services, including emergency medical transportation, X-rays and lab work, family planning, and medication-assisted treatment for people with opioid use disorder. The program also covers many nursing and home health services, though federal law allows those benefits <a href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/03/01/1159490515/they-could-lose-the-house-to-medicaid\">to be clawed back</a> after an enrollee’s death."},{"_id":"5RYTJ3JT6FAP7N3I3PF722QAL4","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739984364164},"type":"text","content":"Beyond that, states have the flexibility to choose the services their Medicaid programs cover. All states cover prescription drugs, and most cover eyeglasses, some dental care, and physical therapy."},{"_id":"IRGRC52OWFFNZMRN6DXURPS3YQ","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739984364165},"type":"text","content":"Medicaid covers more mental health and long-term care services than any other type of insurance, public or private."},{"_id":"W7ZYH4BZAJALREMLRLIWNFP3YE","additional_properties":{"nofollow":false,"selectedStory":false,"comments":[],"sponsored":false,"_id":1739997231318,"openInNewTab":true},"type":"interstitial_link","content":"4 Republicans break rank with Kemp, support Medicaid expansion","url":"https://www.ajc.com/politics/republican-support-for-medicaid-expansion-grows-in-state-senate/IYNEEAUU7ND2HDBKWMZEYKDJ4A/"},{"_id":"4C7D6E3SQBGINLILQSNI6KNQ6A","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739984364166},"type":"text","content":"<b>What is Medicaid called in my state?</b>"},{"_id":"U3ZALD4U3FBJJOX6P4HJVB2YDI","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739984364167},"type":"text","content":"Medicaid programs can go by <a href=\"https://data.medicaid.gov/dataset/0e112ea8-8e8e-5dee-a7e2-7ed551c3baa4\">many different names</a>, even within the same state, in part because most states use private insurance companies to run them. This can be confusing for consumers who may not realize they are actually enrolled in Medicaid."},{"_id":"UOVPVXYPBNF5RAIQDW7DWZXXFY","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739984364168},"type":"text","content":"In <a href=\"https://www.health.ny.gov/health_care/managed_care/plans/mcp_dir_by_plan.htm\">New York</a>, for instance, Medicaid plans are offered by major companies, such as Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield and UnitedHealthcare — and some you may not have heard of, such as Amida Care and MetroPlusHealth. In Wisconsin, enrollees may be in BadgerCare Plus; in Connecticut, Husky Health; in Texas, STAR; and in California, Medi-Cal."},{"_id":"NM7WTK4L5REBHPHAUR5P7EPPRI","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739984364169},"type":"text","content":"<b>How does Medicaid affect hospitals and doctors in my state?</b>"},{"_id":"MZBCULCBEJBZTKR3S3UFKA77TU","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739984364170},"type":"text","content":"Medicaid generally pays health care providers such as doctors and hospitals less money for services than Medicare or private insurance does. But it can be more money than they’d get caring for people who are uninsured — and without Medicaid, many more Americans would be uninsured."},{"_id":"VA3US5WCW5AKTILG57AUUKGFJM","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739984364171},"type":"text","content":"Like states, providers and hospitals have come to rely on this money and express concerns that even phasing it out over time would require major adjustments."},{"_id":"G7ZUKZQPOZGHDCQRTEEQAOVNPQ","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739984364172},"type":"text","content":"<b>What’s going to happen to Medicaid?</b>"},{"_id":"AXXFEIKYTVE4TKGK43WIZ5ZKCQ","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739984364173},"type":"text","content":"It’s not clear. Republicans in Washington are again pushing for major changes, which could take the form of cuts to federal funding. That could reduce the number of people who qualify, the services available, or both. A similar push focused on repealing and replacing Obamacare in 2017, during Trump’s first term, was unsuccessful."},{"_id":"3UTYKGOHYBEIJJO7Q6FQCTKPZI","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739984364174},"type":"text","content":"Perhaps one of the biggest obstacles to changing Medicaid is <a href=\"https://www.kff.org/medicaid/poll-finding/5-charts-about-public-opinion-on-medicaid/\">its popularity</a>: 77% of Americans — and majorities of Democrats, independents, and Republicans — view the program favorably."},{"_id":"CPBPCKPHYZCXZINP37MFJRMGAQ","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739984364175},"type":"text","content":"At the heart of it all are key questions about the role of government in people’s health: How big should the U.S. medical insurance safety net be? Who deserves government assistance? 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Endeavor’s CEO Jim Graham also traveled there."},{"_id":"2GH5SKL5J5HYJI5AZMOSSQ3KWI","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739984382989},"type":"text","content":"Bombardier directed requests for comment to Mitsubishi, which did not respond to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s query."},{"_id":"AAYIFITROJHPHFVJYM7UIWFYF4","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739984382990},"type":"text","content":"Delta’s regional operation, Delta Connection, contracts with three carriers: SkyWest Airlines, Republic Airways and Endeavor, which is the only one owned by the Atlanta-based airline."},{"_id":"B5UT6G3AZZEAXHCOM2A362MUIM","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739984382991},"type":"text","content":"Endeavor <a href=\"https://www.endeavorair.com/content/dam/endeavor-air/images/fact-sheet/Endeavor%20Air%20Fact%20Sheet%202025.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">operates</a> about 700 daily flights to destinations across the U.S., Canada and the Caribbean. 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When a gun is needed in a scene, they’re the ones giving it to the actor and ensuring they know how to fire, unload or holster it — whatever action the scene calls for. They’ll have conversations with other departments, whether it’s wardrobe or with the director, about tweaking certain elements of the story or how a character presents themselves to ensure accuracy. They understand the vision the director wants to achieve and help to carry it out in a safe manner."},{"_id":"4GOETTYQS5HK5FIIHCBQ4GFJPM","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739482113452},"type":"text","content":"It’s a role Burrows is proud to hold and takes seriously, backed by 30 years of real-world experience. He gets the same satisfaction from working on set that he did training people during his time in the military and law enforcement."},{"_id":"Q5SOYKAHY5APVMXLWUJOI5EKKU","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739565287073},"type":"text","content":"“I felt it was my calling to be a teacher and instructor,” Burrows said. “Working on film sets, I realized I get to do the same thing now. Actors appreciate that. They realize what I’m telling them is legitimate.”"},{"level":3,"_id":"YILUKWYTIZAPPCUXXMZTCFBNQM","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[]},"type":"header","content":"Renewed concern over safety"},{"_id":"XHILLJYYXRBV7HC7OVAG2AJBYY","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739482113455},"type":"text","content":"An armorer is not a new role in Hollywood. But its responsibilities and the practice of using real weapons on set overall were thrust into the spotlight after the fatal shooting in New Mexico on the set of “Rust” in 2021. Actor Alec Baldwin was rehearsing with a prop revolver when it fired a live round, killing cinematographer Halyna Hutchins."},{"_id":"LZ6PJZBJC5AFLGY5LRAPWASH3I","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739482113456},"type":"text","content":"The incident reignited discussions over <a href=\"https://www.ajc.com/news/business/crash-investigation-finds-no-safety-violations-on-atlanta-movie-set/EOATCRRUEFEEZJXOU7YMD5GPEI/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.ajc.com/news/business/crash-investigation-finds-no-safety-violations-on-atlanta-movie-set/EOATCRRUEFEEZJXOU7YMD5GPEI/\">occupational safety</a> in the film industry. Several changes were enacted. California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill requiring minimum training standards for people who oversee firearms on set. The most recent contract between the union representing crew members — the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees — and Hollywood studios and streaming companies included new language that detailed firearms are the responsibility of the property master or a skilled, properly-licensed technician. 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Similarly, a replica made of metal, plastic or wood looks realistic if not seen up close, but cannot accurately depict gun-handling maneuvers. Airsoft guns, which are made to fire plastic or metal pellets (though can be reconfigured to not fire projectiles), can be more realistic looking than other replicas, but not in close-up shots where they will be loaded or fired."},{"_id":"RA2PXKFSBJDMHCS7MU7UFGVY2U","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739565287083},"type":"text","content":"The two options that have the closest resemblance to a real firearm are deactivated guns, which have been reconfigured to not fire blanks or live ammunition, and blank-firing guns, which only fire blanks — both of which have a realistic recoil, sound and flash. (The gun used on the set of “Rust” was a functional Colt .45 revolver mistakenly loaded with live ammunition that was present among so-called “dummy” rounds, according to <a href=\"https://www.reuters.com/world/us/how-did-live-rounds-get-onto-set-alec-baldwins-rust-2023-03-27/\" target=\"_blank\">Reuters</a>).<b> </b>It’s illegal to have a firearm regulated under the National Firearms Act on set without a licensed representative present."},{"_id":"CVUHLOCH6VGLTEQSEFRSQWVDVA","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[{"date":"2025-02-18T18:32:21.011Z","replies":[],"pos":213,"comment":"post-production ","type":"insert","user":"Amanda DeArmon","email":"Amanda.DeArmon@ajc.com"}],"comments":[{"date":"2025-02-18T18:32:37.803Z","replies":[],"start":229,"end":243,"text":"no hyphen, per merriam/AP","user":"Amanda DeArmon","email":"Amanda.DeArmon@ajc.com"}],"_id":1739482113463},"type":"text","content":"Using blank-firing guns is often a practical and economical option for productions, especially for lower-budget, gun-heavy projects. Adding visual effects or CGI to replicate smoke, shell casings and the flame in postproduction can be costly or time-consuming. Plus, you can’t computer-generate the slide locking to the rear when a gun runs out of bullets — at least convincingly."},{"_id":"5YNLK2O52JDSRFBXNDITHWMSBQ","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739555928788},"type":"text","content":"“When I watch shows, I can pick out the fake plastic guns,” Burrows said. “A lot of directors want the authenticity and that look. 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After they shot the scene, the actor approached Burrows and said that he initially wondered why he was giving him all of this information irrelevant to the action in the scene. All he wanted to know was how to fire the thing. But when cameras started rolling, it all clicked for the actor."},{"_id":"MZXC4AGNZ5EXBIZX7Q6YADRUKM","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739482113470},"type":"text","content":"“If I’m working somewhere where they’re like, ‘Gordon, we don’t care about all that stuff. We just need you to hand out the guns,’ then that’s fine, if that’s what you want,” Burrows said. “But that’s not what I want to be. 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In fact, when Odie Donald, the mayor’s chief of staff, was building a case against Manigault in a meeting a few weeks ago, he had the Senior Ball on one of his slides."},{"_id":"AG5UX3RDWFFN3NWOYFR6TYVGY4","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739918697160},"type":"text","content":"Manigault’s office conducted dozens of investigations, including one that miffed a couple of council members and, she said, caused the city bureaucracy to roadblock her efforts."},{"_id":"QVT2AFSABRGETFNO4TROFPXWG4","additional_properties":{"comments":[],"_id":"R3TPUG2735F2TH3DGYVWAXDIII"},"type":"interstitial_link","content":"TORPY: Atlanta watchdog warned about contractor. 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People there are touchy on the subject. The IG’s office was created in the wake of a corruption scandal that sent more than 10 city officials and contractors off to prison."},{"_id":"LXMWH54XJBGJLNVBHM7Y6ZNLQY","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739918697164},"type":"text","content":"Everyone nodded in agreement that a tough internal corruption cop was needed. But when the person hired to that job comes out and loudly says that city officials really didn’t mean it, then much angst ensues."},{"_id":"SHMVYX3TQFATBLX7XERVYGEKSA","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739918697165},"type":"text","content":"In response to Manigault’s complaint, the city created a task force to make recommendations. But Manigault and her board, which has supported her, say the task force was set up to defang the office."},{"_id":"HDESRKK2DVECVFKY4N575WH3UQ","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739918697166},"type":"text","content":"Manigault’s fate was sealed in <a href=\"https://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta-news/oig-dickens-administration-gave-unfair-advantage-to-vendor/JUU5TTS6RZB2BBWI4O64772TNU/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta-news/oig-dickens-administration-gave-unfair-advantage-to-vendor/JUU5TTS6RZB2BBWI4O64772TNU/\">early December when her office released</a> a report that said Dickens’ office gave “unfair advantage” to a company to help run the city’s ATL311 customer service calls. 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Instead, he <a href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/strengthening-american-leadership-in-digital-financial-technology/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/strengthening-american-leadership-in-digital-financial-technology/\">prohibited any initiatives or plans for Central Bank Digital Currencies</a>, analogous to a digital form of paper money for which the Federal Reserve holds liability."},{"_id":"JEFLXTKLGNDJNIZCLL5HINZUWQ","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739898098186},"type":"text","content":"Like most Americans, the majority of my purchases do not involve cash. 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While it is unclear if any action can be taken against the penny without Congress signing off, it is clear that Congress, in its current composition, is content to play the role of spectator."},{"_id":"GAPTDGWJMRE4VNO2F3HPI7E3NU","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[{"date":"2025-02-18T18:43:52.782Z","replies":[],"pos":106,"comment":"(R-AZ) ","type":"insert","user":"Amanda DeArmon","email":"Amanda.DeArmon@ajc.com"}],"comments":[{"date":"2025-02-18T18:44:47.676Z","replies":[],"start":97,"end":105,"text":"set short forms off from a name by commas, per AP","user":"Amanda DeArmon","email":"Amanda.DeArmon@ajc.com"}],"_id":1739898098188},"type":"text","content":"Debate over the penny has spanned decades, most recently in 2017 when the late Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., introduced the COINS Act. In addition to pausing production of pennies for a decade, the bill also proposed modifying the metals that compose the nickel and shifting the $1 bill from paper to a metal coin. 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We will give 5 cents instead of 2 cents when giving advice, and thrifty Americans will become nickel nippers instead of penny pinchers."},{"_id":"LYIV43PYI5CKNF4AEWNWQ4ZY3U","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[{"date":"2025-02-18T18:47:11.729Z","replies":[],"pos":145,"comment":"in ","type":"insert","user":"Amanda DeArmon","email":"Amanda.DeArmon@ajc.com"}],"comments":[],"_id":1739898098193},"type":"text","content":"Some linguistic and social references to the penny will likely stick around even if the coin does not. I sang about a “ha’penny” every Christmas during the 1970s, and the half-cent had already been out of circulation for over 100 years."},{"_id":"STUJPEQVR5AA5JVWUPO5RJAGBQ","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739898098194},"type":"text","content":"Why have U.S. representatives been so reluctant to let go of pennies, especially since there are examples showing that the outcome isn’t so bad?"},{"_id":"S6VWHY7Z4BHB5KL5OTZ5ZC47AE","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739898098195},"type":"text","content":"U.S. Military bases overseas got rid of pennies long ago, rounding purchases to the nearest 5 cents."},{"_id":"FVMFD6JAEBAZ5B4MNS7RC6ZYQQ","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739898098196},"type":"text","content":"Our fellow North Americans eliminated the Canadian penny in 2012 without much controversy. Pennies were still valid currency, but purchases were rounded to the nearest 5 cents, and Canadians were encouraged to surrender unused pennies to the banks."},{"_id":"BDFBKATCRBCCXO72O2AIUELKGY","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739898098197},"type":"text","content":"The U.S. has already decreased annual production of pennies and nickels to limited effect. The current administration is selling this latest crusade against pennies as part of the grand strategy to reduce government spending, but getting rid of pennies is just a lot of nickel and diming that won’t make a dent in the deficit."},{"_id":"6P4T65ZVBFF3JDQDGAEXBXX2KY","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739898098198},"type":"text","content":"Rather than sitting on the sidelines and watching pennies fall, I wish Congress would engage in a forward-thinking exchange about what could be on the horizon — a cashless society."},{"_id":"3VERMKLAKVF33DK4KJVSFOQBXE","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739898098199},"type":"text","content":"In 2022, the Federal Reserve took the first step in initiating public discussions about CBDC."},{"_id":"URUQB27NOZGBDOJFNDPZICPS3U","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739898098200},"type":"text","content":"CBDC supporters say a digital dollar accessible to members of the public would offer an alternative to physical cash and perhaps more inclusive banking. Critics cite privacy issues of a CBDC and the impact on the banking industry."},{"_id":"NOBMGCIC45BIXEXINTEQZNMH3A","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739898098202},"type":"text","content":"According to the nonpartisan, nonprofit Atlantic Council, <a href=\"https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/cbdctracker/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/cbdctracker/\">the U.S. is falling behind in the CBDC conversation.</a>"},{"_id":"XPODURACZRGZZGZQPGGNC34BOM","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[{"date":"2025-02-18T18:49:46.426Z","replies":[],"pos":152,"comment":",","type":"insert","user":"Amanda DeArmon","email":"Amanda.DeArmon@ajc.com"}],"comments":[],"_id":1739898098203},"type":"text","content":"Currently, 134 countries (98% of the global economy) are exploring digital versions of their currencies with programs in the advanced development, pilot or launch 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Crim Center for Urban Educational Excellence</a> at Georgia State University. “Now it’s a part of the common lexicon, but clearly that has not always been the way that we thought about it.”"},{"_id":"ZXFRQU3MWRE6LAX6USISXTRJW4","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[]},"type":"text","content":""},{"owner":{"id":"ajc"},"workflow":{"status_code":4},"auth":{"1":"b1af4f8ff8a45a51a8c4ff60863cb980e2d446b006c5d211d5ab81746a315697"},"caption":"Alonzo Crim (left), former superintendent of Atlanta Public Schools, confers with Benjamin Mays, the former president of Morehouse College, in this photo taken in the early 1970s. 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And he helped stakeholders citywide understand they had a responsibility to help students reach that potential."},{"_id":"G7XI2GJMLRCFPKB5TDMRTSGWJM","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739392422701},"type":"text","content":"Now 25 years after his <a href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2000/05/06/us/alonzo-crim-first-black-chief-of-schools-in-south-dies-at-71.html\" target=\"_blank\">death</a> at the age of 71, educators still try to re-create the buy-in that Crim generated in Atlanta in the ‘70s and ‘80s. Through mentoring programs, partnerships with businesses and parent engagement efforts, the community of believers endures."},{"_id":"TOZD5PML4ZDGRG3RVJGZ3GWB7M","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739392422702},"type":"text","content":"The values Crim practiced may be even more vital after the COVID-19 pandemic, when chronic absenteeism in schools has <a href=\"https://www.ajc.com/education/can-automated-messages-help-boost-low-attendance-in-metro-atlanta-schools/N7CCBSUNUVH5RG7QD66AZRXMDE/\" target=\"_blank\">soared</a> in Atlanta and across the nation, and students have faced <a href=\"https://www.ajc.com/education/georgia-students-reading-scores-on-the-nations-report-card-didnt-change-much-in-two-years/JZQ5YH5MVNGLTLX64W3MKYL3WI/\" target=\"_blank\">academic setbacks</a> and <a href=\"https://www.ajc.com/education/more-than-1000-dekalb-students-need-psych-evals-theyll-likely-wait/I5OHC43HSVB4ZPZW2FYBTONAFM/\" target=\"_blank\">mental health</a> challenges. And they may be more vital in the current political climate, where differing opinions can feel personal."},{"_id":"AHT6BZKHB5CXBBEYSUVGMDOWCQ","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739392422703},"type":"text","content":"Crim went on to teach at Georgia State and Spelman College, where Sharan Crim said her father ended each class the same way — with a reminder: “None of us is as strong as all of us.”"},{"_id":"6B5JHNOQDRDZZLOXBPFIYOU5BM","type":"raw_html","content":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.documentcloud.org/documents/25522142-a-community-of-believers-by-alonzo-a-crim/?embed=1\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600px\" style=\"border: 1px solid #d8dee2; border-radius: 0.5rem;\"></iframe>"},{"_id":"UGK4XIOVVNEBHGO4L2QE4FS44E","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1734620041628},"alignment":"left","type":"text","content":"<b>ABOUT THIS SERIES</b>"},{"_id":"6CAA4ZBJY5HGDOB42XJPIHE2HA","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1738961711619},"type":"text","content":"<i>This year’s AJC Black History Month series, marking its 10th year, focuses on the role African Americans played in building Atlanta and the overwhelming influence that has had on American culture. 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White flight had replaced a white majority with more than 80 percent black enrollment. As soon as Crim arrived, Congressman Andrew Young invited him to a three-day meeting with civil rights leaders, who made him feel as if he were on the witness stand, Crim later wrote. Atlanta was the desegregation case they were watching. 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Mays was president of the Atlanta school board when the board hired Crim, and Mays became a sort of mentor for Crim, Willie said. The stakes were high for both men, Willie said. \"I know how they felt about it,\" he said. \"They wanted educational excellence and at the same time bringing everybody along.\" -- Doug Cumming, Pete Scott, AJC archives (original run date: May 4, 2000)","credits":{"by":[{"name":"AJC file","type":"author","byline":"AJC file","slug":"ajc-file"}]},"subtitle":"Mays as a mentor","resized_obj":{"src":"https://www.ajc.com/resizer/v2/XJR4IKUWJD2GW3ADQWPV7JK2F4.jpg?auth=dbbe291057ec1c222c329f1c781a1a3feaec37a71ceddbd054b5f9d8c9f2c1b0&width=1260&height=840&smart=true"},"width":1887,"height":2000,"auth":{}},{"url":"https://cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/ajc/VAG3UDLN6V6PFP5SRYWFJNY3RM.jpg","caption":"March 8, 1976 -- School union leader Willie Bolden talks with Dr. Alonzo Crim. 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Some board members grew weary of his travels --- Crim was considered a pioneer of urban education and was much in demand as a speaker nationally --- and were upset he wasn't home more. When some board members pushed to oust administrators they viewed as poor leaders, Crim countered with proposals for staff development instead. Crim also drew heat from neighborhoods when, at the direction of the city's school board, he began recommending the closing of under-enrolled schools. Residents and board members objected to the closings in general, but were more upset about the fact that under-enrolled schools in predominantly white areas seemed less likely to be considered for closings. -- Doug Cumming, Pete Scott, AJC archives (original run date: May 4, 2000)","credits":{"by":[{"name":"Jim Battles / AJC file","type":"author","byline":"Jim Battles / AJC file","slug":"jim-battles-ajc-file"}]},"subtitle":"With success comes criticism","resized_obj":{"src":"https://www.ajc.com/resizer/v2/MWG2WSMJ2FIQRYXNAPXZG5B5I4.jpg?auth=dff5b8292455dbafa361a1e6d7b76ea586c5f4aedde25bb655f83f286139e1f4&width=1260&height=840&smart=true"},"width":3442,"height":2136,"auth":{}},{"url":"https://cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/ajc/IRLWGOXTW3J66AH36SM4N2OZKU.jpg","caption":"July 12, 1988 -- Atlanta school board President June Cofer says farewell to the retiring Dr. Alonzo Crim. Crim drew strong support from the Atlanta Council of PTAs. \"He was a real trouper for parents and gave them a way of participating in the schools, \" said Thelma Malone, the current president of the Atlanta Council of PTAs. \"He didn't use those thousand-dollar words with a fifty-cent meaning even though he was a highly educated superintendent.\" -- Doug Cumming, Pete Scott, AJC archives (original run date: May 4, 2000)","credits":{"by":[{"name":"AJC file","type":"author","byline":"AJC file","slug":"ajc-file"}]},"subtitle":"Leaving a fine legacy","resized_obj":{"src":"https://www.ajc.com/resizer/v2/IRLWGOXTW3J66AH36SM4N2OZKU.jpg?auth=6f23e846b05e75b2bc59c6895f0b05e6e2288a3375492b7c28df1a45df37a563&width=1260&height=840&smart=true"},"width":1561,"height":2000,"auth":{}},{"url":"https://cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/ajc/NQRO4AUEE44O3AWHGYJJSZHC6E.jpg","caption":"It was Crim's place in history that people talked about in the wake of his death, at 71, in an early morning three-car wreck on DeKalb Avenue in Atlanta, May 2000. Police said Crim was driving in the wrong direction in a reversible lane on DeKalb Avenue about 12:20 a.m. when he clipped one car, then collided with another. He died an hour later at Grady Memorial Hospital. The wreck occurred about three blocks from the high school named for him after he retired as superintendent in 1988. 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The two men were ticketed near schools in South Georgia, but say the company put the cameras on a four-lane highway rather than near the entrance of the schools. They’re suing the company."},{"_id":"WEJ35IGLSRCFRBBF2V7ZEU44W4","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739564326693},"type":"text","content":"“The true purpose … was not based on an actual need and desire to protect school children as they came to or from those schools,” the complaint filed in January<b> </b>stated. “Instead, the use of such devices was for the purpose of operating a speed trap and thereby generating revenue.”"},{"_id":"BJ5OMS5QTZGGVKJLXICY4U5TYA","additional_properties":{"comments":[],"_id":"I6SPMC5HWVEFXD7VYFJRAJIB3Q"},"type":"interstitial_link","content":"Opinion: Traffic cameras are about safety. 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The inspector general accuses the Dickens administration of spreading misinformation and misleading claims both inside City Hall and on social media."},{"_id":"5CBOB6DYFVBCXPH3EHV2YAD4WA","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739851710455},"type":"text","content":"Rohit Malhotra, founder and executive director Civic Center for Innovation — an Atlanta organization that examines local policy and processes and works to inform the community — urged council members Monday not to pass the legislation."},{"_id":"5GGYEBFISNDX3HNOPU7CAY7WDQ","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739851710456},"type":"text","content":"“This is not a policy debate; this is political theater,” he said. “What are we doing? Who is winning? 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He thinks the CFPB has engaged in “mission creep” and some of its efforts have led to unintended consequences, like a crackdown on personal credit card marketing pushing companies to more widely market business credit cards, which have fewer protections."},{"_id":"CUTCHVFBHJAURCPMEXOTMWA2VY","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739747777901},"type":"text","content":"“I’m sympathetic to consumer finance, but in my opinion, the CFPB hasn’t worked from the start, and I think that the administration is right about that,” Mason said. “Now, is the answer to rip it all out? I don’t know, we’ll see. 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They also may not have heard key instructions from air traffic controllers to move behind the plane, investigators said Friday."},{"_id":"H7LPKTKQKBDOLFAUPPXPW2TTH4","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[]},"type":"text","content":"National Transportation Safety Board Chairwoman Jennifer Homendy told reporters the recording from the Black Hawk helicopter cockpit suggested an incomplete radio transmission may have left the crew without understanding how it should shift position just before the Jan. 29 crash, in which all <a href=\"https://apnews.com/article/fatal-washington-flight-passengers-ca062f03b729c130058d4f74393dfa31\">67 aboard</a> the two aircraft were killed, including Georgia natives Sam Lilley, a pilot on the jetliner, and Ryan O’Hara, an Army staff sergeant who was aboard the helicopter."},{"_id":"7PCGDYM3YRE3PFJBXADBW7TESQ","additional_properties":{"nofollow":false,"selectedStory":false,"sponsored":false,"openInNewTab":true},"type":"interstitial_link","content":"Memorial for airline pilot killed in crash with Army helicopter is Feb. 15","url":"https://www.ajc.com/news/georgia-news/memorial-for-airline-pilot-killed-in-crash-with-army-helicopter-is-feb-15/NPTW2CLQDBFYHJZF3RCMANL4WU/"},{"_id":"MIFHG57PZ5C37AD2Z2LMM6N7ZA","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[]},"type":"text","content":"“That transmission was interrupted ― it was stepped on,” she said, leaving them unable to hear the words “pass behind the” because the helicopter’s microphone key was pressed at the same moment."},{"_id":"BFDPOMODB5FLXJA2UR4Z4Z74XY","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[]},"type":"text","content":"The helicopter pilots may have also missed part of another communication, when the tower said the jet was shifting to a different runway, she said."},{"_id":"3LSHZMT5GZGM5NAR7AK2BD7KGU","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[]},"type":"text","content":"Homendy said the helicopter was on a “check” flight that night, where the pilot was undergoing an annual test on using night vision goggles. 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However, you can offset this higher initial investment with long-term savings. The 2025 Honda CR-V in our example has a starting price of $31,450. The hybrid alternative, the 2025 CR-V Hybrid, costs $4,250 more. Using Georgia’s current average gas price of about $3 per gallon, it would take more than 11 years to recover the price difference."},{"_id":"RB5IC7EPHBCGNCH7KADN4K7EOE","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[]},"type":"text","content":"Calculate the total cost of ownership over the car’s life span, including fuel, maintenance and resale value. Kelley Blue Book calculates a 5-Year Cost to Own estimate for most vehicles. Visit <a href=\"http://kbb.com\" target=\"_blank\">kbb.com</a> to read expert reviews and research vehicles to see a cost that includes out-of-pocket expenses like fuel and insurance plus the car’s depreciation (loss in value) over time."},{"_id":"NQ5WIKUQ5BG2TMWOFTV7G4WYXI","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[]},"type":"text","content":"· <b>Maintenance and repairs</b>"},{"_id":"GRMXT5IAUBDNVG6TAGWHGBVJDY","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[]},"type":"text","content":"Hybrid vehicles have more complex systems than gasoline cars, sometimes leading to higher maintenance and repair costs. 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You can refuel at any gas station, making long road trips hassle-free."},{"_id":"6TIJKWNJB5CT3MRZ36JETRX45U","additional_properties":{"comments":[],"_id":"D6LIIHUR35GVRMLBETTMPON4LI"},"type":"interstitial_link","content":"Opinion: What’s behind skyrocketing car insurance rates and what you can do ","url":"https://ajc.com/news/business/the-steering-column-whats-driving-soaring-insurance-costs-and-what-you-can-do/O7I76MRCV5F6BMUI6KF62KVKMU/"},{"_id":"DB2BK4GUKZHWXJJNZDZJOUREGQ","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[]},"type":"text","content":"The 2025 Hyundai Elantra Hybrid sedan, rated at 54 mpg combined, can go up to 670 miles on a single tank in a best-case scenario. 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Research the resale value trends for specific vehicles you’re considering."},{"level":3,"_id":"2P7O3J5CMREN3LE33KBADP6I5M","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[]},"type":"header","content":"Making the decision"},{"_id":"4ZXZESUDWBHZ3J3D4Q4WHIWXZ4","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[]},"type":"text","content":"When deciding between a hybrid and a gasoline-powered car, weigh the pros and cons based on your unique situation. 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Day rates at some hotels are on par with what some people could expect to pay in rent for an apartment. Some residents that The Atlanta Journal-Constitution interviewed this past year said they were paying nearly $1,300 each month to stay in hotel rooms while living day-to-day and paycheck-to-paycheck."},{"_id":"RNFZ7KN7T5GMTDXLFRILTC5V64","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739494918330},"type":"text","content":"In a Feb. 6 statement, the Georgia House of Representatives said the bill “would close a loophole in state squatter laws that allows long-term hotel guests to <a href=\"https://house-press.com/rep-devan-seabaugh-introduces-legislation-to-crack-down-on-illegal-squatting-in-extended-stay-hotels/\" target=\"_blank\">illegally squat in extended-stay hotels</a>” and “seeks to redefine extended-stay hotel guests who refuse to leave after their reservation expires as trespassers rather than tenants.”"},{"_id":"MHLG7SJWIVGNNB4ENMRDYAKFOI","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739490463276},"type":"text","content":"But residents are already at the whim of hotel owners and largely powerless when management decides to make them leave, said real estate agent Sue Sullivan, <a href=\"https://www.ajc.com/news/health-news/atlantas-extended-stay-hotels-are-a-last-resort-for-families-who-cant-afford-rent-but-living-in-one-poses-hazards-for-kids/KVVM6F5RVNGAXLW2DYU3HNWQQI/\" target=\"_blank\">who advocates for families living in extended stays</a>. 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But if somebody’s staying in a room and not paying, then (hotel owners) can’t rent that room to a paying customer, which hits them financially.”"},{"_id":"XG6XZL7JORCKHISN6RR6YIQ4GQ","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739490463282},"type":"text","content":"Erin Willoughby, managing attorney at Atlanta Legal Aid Society, said her organization is not taking a position on the bill and could only talk about its potential impacts."},{"_id":"C7INQB3VLBCO5KBO3K3QRMXLBE","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739490463283},"type":"text","content":"If the bill is passed and signed into law, it would prevent residents, including the elderly and people with disabilities, from seeking a remedy in eviction court, according to the attorney."},{"_id":"QHGFH7XMGRDFTJZC77LUCJ77WU","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739490463284},"type":"text","content":"“These are people who have no other options. No one lives voluntarily in a hotel setting. This is their home,” she said. “Those people would be stripped of the ability to be protected by the landlord-tenant statute.”"},{"_id":"WRN5UGZMINDXJORAK4BYQZHKNQ","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[{"date":"2025-02-14T14:45:17.287Z","replies":[],"pos":59,"comment":"where","type":"insert","user":"George Hanns","email":"George.Hanns@ajc.com"}],"comments":[],"_id":1739490463285},"type":"text","content":"State courts had ruled on extended stays in a case in which residents of the Efficiency Lodge in DeKalb County sued after hotel managers said they would have to leave, without going to court to evict them. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, some residents had been forced from their rooms by a <a href=\"https://www.splcenter.org/resources/stories/overextended-stay-people-living-long-term-residential-hotels-fight-evictions-avoid/\" target=\"_blank\">private security guard with an assault rifle</a>."},{"_id":"ROVXLYEMUZGNRFLHLA2BOMUBF4","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739490463286},"type":"text","content":"In 2022, the appeals court affirmed a trial court ruling in favor of the residents and found that the hotel was <a href=\"https://www.ajc.com/neighborhoods/dekalb/court-evictions-were-illegal-at-extended-stay-motel-with-ties-to-former-governor/BT4A4BKU6RC23LW3NO36FFGRUU/\" target=\"_blank\">acting as a landlord </a>and had to go through a formal eviction process."},{"_id":"SKRY4CHK6RAOHKXY5PNRVCNVQU","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739505741292},"type":"text","content":"In Georgia, the landlord-tenant relationship established in a typical lease agreement means property managers need to go through the formal process to evict a tenant. 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During last year’s flu season, just 44.9% of Americans over 18 received the vaccine. Coverage has steadily declined since the COVID-19 pandemic, though experts are unsure why. During the 2017–18 flu season, just 37.1% of adults got a flu vaccine, the CDC said."},{"_id":"G4NYJNNSQVEQDIT55YG7KESRMU","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739469151595},"type":"text","content":"The metro Atlanta population grew 22.3% from 4,272,300 in 2014 to 5,221,074 in 2024, according to the Atlanta Regional Commission, so population growth alone doesn’t account for a near doubling of flu outbreaks over the past decade, Cadet said."},{"_id":"BMOMDTGHFBAI5M4C6FUCVT3NGM","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739469151596},"type":"text","content":"<a href=\"https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.wellstar.org/physicians/danny-branstetter-md__;!!JZyed81S!nLOmhFkLvhcTYNHsFlpEaG8QET6DPGej0GRvsx3xpdD0X1EsPLvUIrdWW2UdiziLo1TkfSW1jbfhKL-CZ3JY8cyhNxK3keY$\">Dr. Danny Branstetter</a>, director of infection prevention at Wellstar Health System, says this year’s flu season is experiencing a double peak, which could drive up cases and hospitalizations."},{"_id":"6FKPSGCQG5GRTPNYXUU436CD3Y","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739469151597},"type":"text","content":"“We see our normal surge of cases increase around the holidays in metro Atlanta,” he said. “We did see lower hospitalization cases compared to the last five years, which is good news. 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It’s even dumber and more obsequious than the “Make Greenland Great Again Act,” being pushed by some of Carter’s brethren."},{"_id":"YAW6KYZBZ5GT7GM43ZIJKMSURI","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739476274623},"type":"text","content":"Normally, one would view this kind of activity as trolling, as a way to own the libs. 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If Kemp, who got some Trump love when he first ran for governor in 2018, decides not to run then Carter wants to be positioned as Trump’s guy."},{"_id":"6MFUPCBMUBCF5IAJJSXHONSZK4","additional_properties":{"comments":[],"_id":"DQLJJP3RZ5AADJ442ZEIN3C7Q4"},"type":"interstitial_link","content":"The Kemp Factor: How one decision will shape Georgia’s 2026 Senate race","url":"https://www.ajc.com/politics/the-kemp-factor-how-one-decision-will-shape-georgias-2026-senate-race/DIMO75AH75HGHPKOCLRFOBUWEQ/"},{"_id":"NPCG6MF7DFGVDI5YGLNPZ2VCPE","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739476274630},"type":"text","content":"The congressman wanted to run for U.S. Senate in 2022 but deferred to Trump’s candidate, Herschel Walker, who was probably the only Republican in Georgia who could lose to Raphael Warnock, our other Democratic senator."},{"_id":"WWGWR5IYGNAE5DSTEVIJS7GWHI","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739476274631},"type":"text","content":"So why not line up Trump’s support early?"},{"_id":"I2XFTOUBMJGWZOBI3H32RGJ72Q","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[{"pos":133,"comment":"JD "}],"comments":[],"_id":1739476274632},"type":"text","content":"I called state Sen. 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It says the city’s “failure to properly operate and maintain” the facility violates its permit and clean water rules."},{"_id":"2P35ZITBGFEQLBONBJP5J44OH4","additional_properties":{"comments":[],"_id":"VYTJLHUNMRHH7JNDFDCLFMUV4Y"},"type":"interstitial_link","content":"Inspectors find signs of disrepair at Atlanta’s main sewage treatment plant","url":"https://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta-news/inspectors-find-signs-of-disrepair-at-atlantas-rm-clayton-sewage-plant/X6L52ANPIRAGPLQYDZASUKWBGE/"},{"_id":"KNDU6LAATFBQHOJMTWVSPDQHO4","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739386726815},"type":"text","content":"Subsequent inspections found that some remediation has taken place, the proposed order says. If implemented as written, the city would pay a fine of $290,817 and would be required to follow a plan to correct the issues and file regular progress reports."},{"_id":"6OFLFW4ULNCOTKWKO6I35VFV4M","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739386726816},"type":"text","content":"Atlanta City Council must vote on the matter before the city can agree to the order and pay the fine. "},{"_id":"CQEH34JJ6ND23DABYEVSGEKQVA","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[]},"type":"text","content":"Schereé C. Rawles of the city’s Department of Watershed Management said in an email that the matter is slated to come before the council Monday. She said the department has established a comprehensive long-term plan to enhance the infrastructure for drinking water and wastewater treatment. "},{"_id":"4QHHYDJBYNA57GFM7ZBBGPKP5I","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[]},"type":"text","content":"Part of this effort includes a partnership with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to assess the city’s 2,790-mile water distribution system, she added. Last month, <a href=\"https://www.ossoff.senate.gov/press-releases/sens-ossoff-rev-warnock-delivering-federal-funding-for-water-infrastructure-upgrades-in-atlanta-east-point/\" target=\"_blank\">Georgia’s two U.S. senators announced $9.8 million</a> in federal funds over the next three years for the corps to upgrade the levee protecting the RM Clayton facility. 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Historic Fourth Ward Skatepark field, 830 Willoughby Way NE, Atlanta."},{"_id":"HIRKUHTLTNHYNPB6XM2RUADGLE","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[{"date":"2025-02-13T00:07:04.824Z","replies":[],"pos":221,"comment":"live streamed","type":"insert","user":"Amanda Cortright","email":"Amanda.Cortright@ajc.com"}],"comments":[]},"type":"text","content":"Come support Atlanta United FC as it prepares to kick off its new season. The party will include games, giveaways, raffle prizes, drinks, food and live entertainment. 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For the Atlanta Financial Center deal, Nightingale raised about $54 million from more than 600 backers, all of whom invested a minimum of $25,000. The company said it intended to renovate the property."},{"_id":"UDKB5JL22VFB5OB2YCOHI65XGQ","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739383014732},"type":"text","content":"Built during the 1980s, the three-tower Atlanta Financial Center is a nearly 915,000-square-foot office complex on Peachtree Road that overhangs Ga. 400. Landlord <a href=\"https://www.sumitomocorp.com/en/global\">Sumitomo Corp.</a> agreed in June 2022 to sell the entire complex to Nightingale for $182 million, but the sale never closed."},{"_id":"242SHN45QRF67JATDHCUYOOGUU","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739383014733},"type":"text","content":"Between June 2022 and June 2023, Schwartz transferred money from an account for the Atlanta building into another account he controlled, according to the prosecutors. 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We all knew that Harrison was one of us even without trying. It spoke volumes.”"},{"_id":"XOTUS6VZ6RF4HEW3MJHOJ3RCVI","additional_properties":{"comments":[],"_id":1739638065620},"type":"divider"},{"level":2,"_id":"EEU62QCX75C7XLKMFOTSWAE3JE","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739638065621},"type":"header","content":"<b>Will “Captain America: Brave New World” soar or sink?</b>"},{"_id":"VRHBX3LYZNB3RLA7ITTGCFAOYA","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739317280452},"type":"text","content":"It’s been 17 years since the Marvel Cinematic Universe burst out of the gate with “Iron Man” followed by hit after hit for more than a decade. Anthony Mackie was along for the ride as supporting superhero Falcon in several of those massive hits, from “Captain America: Winter Soldier” in 2014 to “Avengers: Endgame” in 2019."},{"_id":"37YQWRPFL5EHDAXQ6WOWE6H3PE","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739317280453},"type":"text","content":"But at the end of that film, Steve Rogers passed the Captain America shield to Sam Wilson, Mackie’s character, the first time a MCU character bestowed a title to another. This led to the Disney+ series “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier” as Wilson adjusted to life as Captain America. Now Mackie leads his own Marvel movie, “Captain America: Brave New World,” out Friday, Feb. 14."},{"_id":"JTWE64XO6BCYDD7WL6Q75BO3X4","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739317280454},"type":"text","content":"Since 2019’s “Avengers: Endgame,” the more recent MCU films have been less consistent and not as universally beloved. It’s unclear yet where this fourth iteration of “Captain America” will land, whether it will be closer to the financial whiff of 2023’s “The Marvels” or a home run like 2024’s “Deadpool & Wolverine.”"},{"_id":"BJ7Q6TOTFRFZ7JMKOTW2ROKJEI","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739317280455},"type":"text","content":"Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst for Comscore who has been tracking film box office for more than a quarter century, said “Captain America: Brave New World” will probably end up between those two extremes, with current “expectations all over the place.”"},{"_id":"5OWZN6JNTJGLVDMDX24BR6XFWA","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[{"pos":18,"comment":"pre-sales "}],"comments":[{"date":"2025-02-11T21:18:08.352Z","start":28,"end":36,"text":"no hyphen, per AP","user":"Amanda DeArmon","email":"Amanda.DeArmon@ajc.com"}],"_id":1739317280456},"type":"text","content":"“Brave New World” presales so far are comparable to “Black Widow” and “Dune: Part Two,” both which were considered solid wins, according to box office tracker <a href=\"https://x.com/Luiz_Fernando_J/status/1881109810721989087\">Luiz Fernando on X</a>. Box Office Theory, which also follows box office numbers, currently tracks its opening weekend domestically between $86 million and $105 million."},{"_id":"KGVL55R2AJDSTIOSQTM456DA24","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739412282728},"type":"text","content":"<a href=\"https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/captain_america_brave_new_world\" target=\"_blank\">Reviews that began coming out Wednesday were mixed with a mediocre 50% positive rating</a> on Rotten Tomatoes among critics. <a href=\"https://www.newsday.com/entertainment/movies/captain-america-brave-new-world-review-exd26df4\" target=\"_blank\">Rafer Guzman of Long Island Newsday </a>wrote, “Compared to some of the studio’s recent misfires, this new entry is at least passable.” <a href=\"https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/movies/captain-america-brave-new-world-review-a-bumpy-flight-for-sam-wilson/\" target=\"_blank\">Dominic Baez of the Seattle Times </a>offered: “‘Captain America: Brave New World’ is enjoyable enough for what it is: a proper introduction of Sam as Captain America.”"},{"_id":"LBBUGO754VFCTN3VQGUE6THFXM","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739412282729},"type":"text","content":"<a href=\"https://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/Movies/2025/02/12/Captain-America-Brave-New-World-review/9311739342643/\" target=\"_blank\">Fred Topel of UPI said it </a>“follows the Marvel formula to the letter. Yet, the film moves briskly enough to forgive some of its pitfalls.” Vulture’s headline is harsh<a href=\"https://www.vulture.com/article/review-captain-america-brave-new-world-another-marvel-mess.html\" target=\"_blank\">: “Marvel Is Now a Giant Slop Machine.” </a>"},{"_id":"R7UNYNLSBNF3RDRRZPOXFAZXEA","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[]},"type":"text","content":"UPDATE on Saturday, Feb. 15: The four-day holiday weekend will likely fall shy of $100 million. Early moviegoers graded the movie a so-so B-minus, according to CinemaScore, which doesn’t bode well for the movie having any real legs. 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One was Hartsfield, himself, who got beat after his first term by someone named Roy LeCraw."},{"_id":"DCBH54IMMNFX7JVRCTC4NMAAEA","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[{"pos":68,"comment":"Harstfield "}],"comments":[],"_id":1739314057052},"type":"text","content":"LeCraw, only months into the job, stepped down to join the Army and Hartsfield then returned to office, where he remained for 20 years."},{"_id":"YHTIURSBA5AZ5CNX7MDM3PPXHQ","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739314057053},"type":"text","content":"Since then, the only mayor to lose was Sam Massell, who was defeated in 1973 by Maynard Jackson, the city’s first Black mayor."},{"_id":"6FNB4QIS4REP5GCN5AFNN7SUBM","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739314057054},"type":"text","content":"In fact, the only time a mayor had a close call was in 1997, when longtime <a href=\"https://www.ajc.com/news/local/things-know-about-former-atlanta-councilman-marvin-arrington/nt5YJ29TiFd5roM6O5VfzK/\" target=\"_blank\">City Council President Marvin Arrington</a> lost a relatively close runoff to Mayor Bill Campbell."},{"owner":{"sponsored":false,"id":"ajc"},"address":{},"auth":{"1":"ad7bd118c864df3840969e194c9bf140afa6b2071ffb48a59051a38cc34a537b"},"vanity_credits":{},"caption":"Atlanta mayoral candidate Marvin Arrington lost a relatively close runoff to Mayor Bill Campbell in November 1997. 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Arrington derided Jackson, a Campbell supporter, as having been “passing in Cleveland” during the Civil Rights Movement, rather than helping the cause in the South. He tried to backtrack his statements but got beat 53% to 47%."},{"_id":"RYPMWYBNL5GH3PHNS2RZDTKEMY","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739314057056},"type":"text","content":"To run against an incumbent, who are now limited to two terms, you must be courageous or crazy. Or perhaps both."},{"_id":"CQTAJ7YFIRAWNLWKS5TOKUFWLE","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739314057057},"type":"text","content":"To campaign against a sitting mayor, you must convince other community leaders to support you publicly and financially. And when things go bad, supporters, like the losing candidate, are left on the outside."},{"_id":"FBDUZDYXPVHDTBNXHINSHCPB4Q","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739360019720},"type":"text","content":"After Campbell won reelection, former Mayor Massell, who at the time was the head of the Buckhead Coalition and an Arrington backer, found it necessary to write a letter of apology to the victorious mayor."},{"_id":"I5HVGSJMNNETXFQCER6R2NDTZ4","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[{"pos":110,"comment":"COVID "},{"pos":174,"comment":"Bottom "}],"comments":[{"date":"2025-02-11T23:56:24.313Z","start":121,"end":124,"text":"added -19, per preferred AJC style","user":"Amanda DeArmon","email":"Amanda.DeArmon@ajc.com"},{"date":"2025-02-11T23:57:11.853Z","start":187,"end":194,"text":"fixed spelling of bottoms","user":"Amanda DeArmon","email":"Amanda.DeArmon@ajc.com"}],"_id":1739314057058},"type":"text","content":"<a href=\"https://www.ajc.com/opinion/columnists/opinion-atlanta-mayoral-race-awaits-but-wholl-run-is-wait-and-see/TZQ2RDEPTREA7CBBNCY36VAMEM/\" target=\"_blank\">Four years ago, I wrote a similar column about such uphill battles</a>. At the time, violent crime was raging and COVID-19 was in its second year. Still, then-Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, who was considering a second term, would have been hard to beat."},{"_id":"IG22ZDPHY5FQLGKDSGRNEXYXQI","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739314057059},"type":"text","content":"Of the politicians then in office, only then-Council President Felicia Moore raised her hand to take a go at the office."},{"_id":"NQHXVUIWIJGO5DLE7GKOSMYRMQ","additional_properties":{"comments":[],"_id":"DURVWGGUGBHW5BPOVFOGYVHIGQ"},"type":"interstitial_link","content":"Atlanta spent only 10% of infrastructure funds approved by voters in 2022","url":"https://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta-news/atlantas-only-spent-10-of-infrastructure-funds-approved-by-voters-in-2022/EURHES63CNBBXPPPADRCOEXARA/"},{"_id":"OEDGLWJIPVF6XFJ5ACLTLQBUXE","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[{"pos":83,"comment":"day dreamed "}],"comments":[{"date":"2025-02-11T23:58:26.634Z","start":95,"end":105,"text":"one word, per merriam/AP","user":"Amanda DeArmon","email":"Amanda.DeArmon@ajc.com"}],"_id":1739314057060},"type":"text","content":"I noted at the time that a bunch of her fellow council members, including Dickens, daydreamed about sitting in the mayor’s office. But few wanted to stick their necks out. At the time, Dickens said he’d love to be mayor. “It’s a timing thing, and when the timing is right, I’ll make that abundantly clear,” he said, not exactly answering my question."},{"_id":"PQKIPPWUZ5FGJFMPVYHEN57OKI","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739314057061},"type":"text","content":"Soon, the timing was right. Four months later, Bottoms <a href=\"https://www.ajc.com/opinion/columnists/opinion-atlanta-mayoral-job-in-a-spin-as-bottoms-bows-out/XDFB3LPOHFDTPK3WPAOMIMIBLE/\" target=\"_blank\">surprisingly announced she was not going to run</a>. Suddenly, the door was opened for Dickens, who jumped in, <a href=\"https://www.ajc.com/opinion/columnists/opinion-can-hizzoner-save-atlanta-ex-and-next-mayor-says-he-can/TNEWE2LOAVDA3BSTRQWKVFFBXA/\" target=\"_blank\">as did former Mayor Kasim Reed</a>, who missed his old romping ground."},{"_id":"DBBI2WJOXRCEBMRCW4VGH5OE4A","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739314057062},"type":"text","content":"Conventional wisdom (which I agreed with) was that Reed would meet his nemesis, Moore, in the runoff. But Dickens, who was not well known, <a href=\"https://www.ajc.com/opinion/columnists/opinion-will-atlanta-voters-prefer-lone-ranger-or-swell-guy-for-mayor/TRWGNYAIGRDYVCVEOIUE3LJOEA/\" target=\"_blank\">was able to craft himself as a fresh face</a> and squeaked into the runoff, where he prevailed. 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Other countries’ refusal to accept deportation flights can account for some of the lengthier stays in detention."},{"_id":"EJLEONSARJADFDGLOHLWF4JRRM","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739297372108},"type":"text","content":"The Trump administration has taken several steps to avoid being stymied on immigration enforcement because of capacity issues. It has begun <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/04/trump-guantanamo-migrants-deportation\" target=\"_blank\">flying unauthorized migrants to a detention facility</a> in Guantánamo Bay, although that effort has already <a href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/09/us/politics/venezuelan-migrants-lawsuit-guantanamo.html\" target=\"_blank\">run into judicial restrictions</a>. 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Since Trump took office, at least 461 migrants <a href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/people-caught-trump-immigration-crackdown-released-us-rcna186360\" target=\"_blank\">have been released back into the country</a>, in part because of space constraints."},{"_id":"VYSAPWVUPVDDRDMR36C5XCHWOE","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739297372111},"type":"text","content":"“They don’t have the capacity to deport millions of people,” Rosenbluth said. “The capacity just isn’t there.”"},{"_id":"SXTBT3RHFVEUVIA6L4YFWP775I","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739297372112},"type":"text","content":"Because they spend so much time working with the immigrant community in Stewart County, Valencia and Rosenbluth are among those most familiar with the detainee population of Georgia’s largest immigration detention facility."},{"_id":"KMCXLSK7DFFFXPII27NTGRYFLY","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739297372114},"type":"text","content":"They say the bulk of people who have been sent to the Stewart Detention Center in recent weeks likely don’t have criminal records."},{"_id":"FGYI4HWCVVBGXKZTPRPRXVTFMU","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739297372115},"type":"text","content":"Trump and many of the officials in his administration have repeatedly stated that ICE would prioritize unauthorized immigrants who have committed serious crimes for detention and deportation. 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Officers can use their discretion and release migrants who do not have serious criminal convictions, though they can choose to continue monitoring them through a range of means, including ankle monitors or a phone app."},{"_id":"BT4CS6BL6BF5LP5WKJESKJN2OY","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[{"date":"","replies":[],"pos":263,"comment":"that ","type":"insert","user":"","email":""}],"comments":[],"_id":1739297372118},"type":"text","content":"Rosenbluth says some of the new Stewart detainees received a message while they were home, alerting them that something was wrong with their tracking devices and asking them to come out so it could be fixed. 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They previously prohibited anyone speaking during the public comment portion of the meeting from using audio and visual media since technical difficulties made it hard to consistently rely on those tools. 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And I had African dancers, they did a whole performance. Had a DJ, worked with a local gallery to have art on the wall. … Many of the people who taught classes, or people who were in the classes, participated in the market."},{"_id":"FVJVLDFFWBFC3GNT3AWC3M2FTA","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739358783267},"type":"text","content":"We went from about 35, 40 people applying for the first one to well over 500 people for every market. And in 2019 we had over 1,000 applications coming in, trying to be in our marketplace. We grew from about 200 people coming to the event to our very last event, we had about 7,000 people there, shopping from entrepreneurs. So this quarterly, curated, very grown up but family-oriented event like really grew to be this thing. 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And for me, I was like, “Well, … what do I want people to do?” And I wanted people to shop. I wanted people to understand that if you care about something, it should have action behind it. I first wrote down on my paper “verb,” and then I was like, “Well, what about a verb?” And then I said, “Support is a Verb.”"},{"_id":"KBER45E76FGOLFFJQTRCBZCCEM","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739358783272},"type":"text","content":"And what’s so beautiful about it, it fits in any space, not just intentionally buying local. 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He has also threatened to enact tariffs on goods from the European Union."},{"_id":"AGAET6HP2NCTRKSAUZNLLPODHU","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739280196481},"type":"text","content":"On Monday, Trump instituted 25% tariffs on foreign aluminum and steel."},{"_id":"2JCVGC5MORDCFOUKCCJZNOWSOE","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739280196482},"type":"text","content":"Tariffs are taxes on imported goods. 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About two-thirds of respondents said they thought Trump’s promised tariffs would increase prices."},{"_id":"ZXBVMX4EQ5F6JFZTNOCPVSX4RU","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739280196486},"type":"text","content":"There are a number of estimates on the cost of the tariffs to the American consumer. An analysis by the nonpartisan Tax Foundation found each household would see an average tax increase of <a href=\"https://taxfoundation.org/research/all/federal/trump-tariffs-trade-war/\" target=\"_blank\">more than $800</a> in 2025 if the tariffs on Canada, China and Mexico were to go into effect. The nonpartisan Peterson Institute for International Economics estimates the cost to each median household will be <a href=\"https://www.piie.com/research/piie-charts/2025/trumps-tariffs-canada-mexico-and-china-would-cost-typical-us-household\" target=\"_blank\">more than $1,200 per year</a>."},{"_id":"G3CLQ3WLANDYVBPEZAXRZ2OQ5A","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739280196487},"type":"text","content":"Those analyses do not include the threatened tariffs on steel and aluminum, which will increase the costs of new cars, construction and other things made with the metals."},{"_id":"X2C2MVTM45FYFGMP3GQVGXVGIY","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739280196488},"type":"text","content":"But high prices are the point of tariffs, said Kimberly Clausing, an economist and senior fellow at the Peterson Institute."},{"level":3,"_id":"E42TMUZNGRDGJBDTY4YT2OVT5A","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739280196489},"type":"header","content":"Will tariffs boost jobs?"},{"_id":"U23KN6BJTRBE7KXAH4DFY2MYDQ","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739280196490},"type":"text","content":"Trump has argued tariffs will increase domestic manufacturing and create jobs."},{"owner":{"sponsored":false,"id":"ajc"},"address":{},"auth":{"1":"13b013b2acd06d96e030719a55556c36d33d0fd70bb2be9e2bff896ba34927cd"},"caption":"Grocery prices are 3.9% above a year ago. 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That’s how domestic production is boosted."},{"_id":"LSIZ2IZXKFAEJI4HA2W5TERJWE","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739280196493},"type":"text","content":"“That higher price is what gets them to make more supply,” Clausing explained."},{"_id":"7KEVIU6C5JGTFDIUGXLLZ4CF2U","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739280196494},"type":"text","content":"Even the president acknowledges the trade penalties could be painful."},{"_id":"CXKEFT5Z7ZBQNKD5323YSZQ24Y","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739280196495},"type":"text","content":"“WILL THERE BE SOME PAIN? 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She said the agency’s epidemiology team alone worked about 100 hours the weekend after the state health department identified the first measles case."},{"_id":"V3HCSFID3VEVPBOUK7P3FJCWB4","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[]},"type":"text","content":"“It’s a lot of work, but everyone’s all on board,” she said. “It’s a really, really great team.”"},{"_id":"SC3772M5RNGGJFJKNVVDELEESA","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[]},"type":"text","content":"Francis-Christian also highlighted the first person to test positive had recently traveled domestically, but didn’t say where. She noted that in the United States, there was <a href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/measles/data-research/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.cdc.gov/measles/data-research/index.html\">a nearly fivefold jump</a> in identified measles infections between 2023 and 2024. This month, Texas health officials are <a href=\"https://www.healthbeat.org/2025/02/07/texas-measles-outbreak-unvaccinated-children/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\">responding to an outbreak</a> of at least nine residents in one of the least vaccinated counties in the state."},{"_id":"25I6IDMDHBC4HAA7THVGLCKZ2Q","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[]},"type":"text","content":"“Overall, we’re seeing a lot less vaccination, a lot more travel, and ultimately that’s causing more disease,” Francis-Christian said."},{"_id":"DLDI5SQOHZHIHNZQFKDVFCCDHI","additional_properties":{"nofollow":false,"selectedStory":false,"sponsored":false,"openInNewTab":true},"type":"interstitial_link","content":"Atlanta resident has been diagnosed with measles","url":"https://www.ajc.com/news/health-news/measles-case-detected-in-georgia/QX7EQTQYGBG6VGV2FK3OQ2ECGU/"},{"_id":"B4CCAIHVBBBYZKSDXLWXWV63VE","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[]},"type":"text","content":"Later in Monday’s meeting, she said GNR has detected rising levels of other infectious diseases. Just over a month into 2025, the agency has detected 10 pertussis cases and 6 varicella cases in Gwinnett. In all of 2024, there were just over 40 cases of each disease in the county."},{"_id":"N34ACGXUMJDFDNIW5ERWRH672E","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[]},"type":"text","content":"Georgia and the United States as a whole have experienced more cases of pertussis, also known as whooping cough, since <a href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/ncird/whats-new/cases-of-whooping-cough-on-the-rise.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.cdc.gov/ncird/whats-new/cases-of-whooping-cough-on-the-rise.html\">at least last summer</a>. In December, the state’s DPH sent out <a href=\"https://www.gnrhealth.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Health-Advisory_Pertussis_12.11.24.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\">a health advisory</a> asking providers to test all patients with symptoms, report positive cases, and recommend vaccination for anyone who’s eligible to receive it."},{"_id":"5KCIJA6FWNFMFJAWJT4FDOPE6E","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[]},"type":"text","content":"“Over the last few years, we’re seeing these trending upward,” Francis-Christian told the board. “It’s a major concern.”"},{"_id":"ZY644BR34BFLBPZPJ2PODMCGXE","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[]},"type":"text","content":"After her presentation, Dorian Freeman, GNR Public Health’s Director of Clinical Infectious Disease, told the board that her team was notified of an active case of pulmonary tuberculosis in a South Gwinnett High School student in December. To make sure the disease didn’t spread, the agency screened 159 staff and students at the school over the past two months and detected no other active cases. Freeman said GNR plans to conduct another round of screenings at Berkmar High School in late February."},{"_id":"X5OFOODDMVGWXHK7NIF52BQBNM","additional_properties":{"nofollow":false,"selectedStory":false,"sponsored":false,"openInNewTab":true},"type":"interstitial_link","content":"1 person tests positive for TB at South Gwinnett High School","url":"https://www.ajc.com/education/1-person-tests-positive-for-tb-at-south-gwinnett-high-school/UP6FVJRCFFCXJJUREKHDTG2DWE/"},{"_id":"BJ5SLHPFQBFY5O77QFUBENBOIE","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[]},"type":"text","content":"Tuberculosis is the world’s <a href=\"https://www.pih.org/article/tb-deadliest-infectious-disease-so-why-havent-you-heard-it#:~:text=Each%20year%2C%20tuberculosis%20(TB),rate%2C%20TB%20rarely%20makes%20headlines.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.pih.org/article/tb-deadliest-infectious-disease-so-why-havent-you-heard-it#:~:text=Each%20year%2C%20tuberculosis%20(TB),rate%2C%20TB%20rarely%20makes%20headlines.\">deadliest infectious disease</a>, killing around 1.3 million people each year. While effective medications for <a href=\"https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7043866/#:~:text=Treatment%20of%20latent%20tuberculosis%20infection%20(LTBI)%20is%20an%20important%20component,isoniazid%20for%206%E2%80%939%20months.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\">both latent</a> and <a href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/tb/topic/treatment/tbdisease.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\">active cases</a> are inaccessible <a href=\"https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7024599/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7024599/\">in many parts of the world</a>, they’re available in most parts of the United States. The bacteria spread is rare in school settings, said GNR Public Health Chief Clinical Officer Alana Sulka."},{"_id":"37CTNJNAKNE7PG44D2F3N2F4PA","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[]},"type":"text","content":"“When we do these screenings in the school, it’s out of an abundance of caution,” she told the board."},{"_id":"WRRPNJYQEVBK7I4SBSY4VANNFU","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[]},"type":"text","content":"<i>Allen Siegler is a reporter covering public health in Atlanta for Healthbeat. 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