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Convenience Stores Sue Over 50-50 Gaming Split

October 31, 2013

A group of convenience store owners are fighting a new state law regulating coin-operated video gambling machines that demands they give 50 percent of the machine’s profits to the machines’ owners. The store...

Fulton tax chief reinstates critic’s auto tag

May 29, 2013

A struggle over power and accountability between the Fulton County tax chief and a north Fulton commissioner took another turn Wednesday. Tax Commissioner Arthur Ferdinand reinstated the auto registration on a 2004 Jeep...

City’s iconic buildings face wrecking ball

May 12, 2013

It was a hard, bleak winter for historic preservationists in Atlanta, a city already infamous for not saving the sign posts of its past. In December, the McCord Apartments, a three-story building on Seventh Street designed in

Bill exempts some lawyers from lobbyist registration

April 4, 2013

A change in Georgia’s laws meant to clarify who is exempt from registering as a lobbyist could make it easier for some lawyers to avoid registering, according to some lawmakers and government transparency proponents....

The battles over Georgia’s school boards

February 28, 2013

Today’s federal court hearing challenging the constitutionality of Governor Nathan Deal’s efforts to oust six members of the DeKalb County Board of Education marks the latest round in more than a decade of...