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ATLANTA (AP) The Georgia Meth Project plans to launch a statewide prevention campaign ... Georgia Attorney General Thurbert Baker and U.S. Senator Johnny Isakson both plan to attend the campaign's launch Monday morning at the state Capitol ... The campaign will include television, print and outdoor advertising. Its goal is to reduce first-time methamphetamine use in the state and to address the economic and social strains caused by meth use ... (Copyright 2010 by The Associated Press. All Rights

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SCLC Board Members Call For Resignations

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Published March 7, 2010 at 5:23 a.m.

ATLANTA (AP) Several board members of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference are calling for the resignation of the group's embattled chairman and treasurer, who are being investigated over allegations of financial mismanagement ... After a three-hour meeting Saturday, the group announced that a majority of ``concerned board members'' are calling for Chairman Raleigh Trammell and Treasurer Spiver Gordon to leave office. Meanwhile, the group has hired an attorney to pursue legal means to

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Gonzo Lawmakers - Day 18

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Published March 6, 2010 at 11:50 a.m.

A daily recap of the Georgia Public Broadcasting show "Lawmakers". The show airs weekdays at 7:00pm with a replay at 5:30am the following weekday ... * We're still in the time warp. Tonight's show is from 2-16-10. But even though we're behind we haven't missed much. The guys and gals from the hill have been cloistered in budget meeting for the last two weeks. Time to catch up ... * There's our old friend the orange juicer. And there's Susan and ... Valerie?. Nwandi has the night off and Valerie

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Lowery Cutting Back Schedule

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Published March 1, 2010 at 11:48 a.m.

ATLANTA (AP) The Rev. Joseph Lowery is taking a break from his busy speaking calendar as he continues to recover after he was hospitalized last month with a blood clot in his lung ... His wife, Evelyn, says he is doing very well since his Feb. 13 release from an Atlanta hospital, but is not ready to return to speaking engagements. His appearances have been canceled for the next several weeks while he rests at home ... The 88-year-old civil rights icon worked alongside the Rev. Martin Luther King

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Unemployment Benefits in Jeopardy

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Published Feb. 26, 2010 at 3:56 p.m.

(WSB Radio State Capitol Bureau) -- Georgia Labor Commissioner Michael Thurmond is urging Senators Johnny Isakson and Saxby Chamblis to quickly support an extension of federal Emergency Unemployment Compensation and federal funding for state extended benefits ... He says come Monday morning, some 8000 Georgians will be without those benefits for failure of the Senate to act ... "Unless the budget stalemate is addressed, then I'm concerned we'll have so many hardworking Georgians who can't find

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Zebra Shuts Down Connector

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Published Feb. 18, 2010 at 5:29 p.m.

(WSB Radio) -- A Zebra likely belonging to Ringling Bros. Circus in Atlanta this week escaped Philips Arena roaming the streets of downtown Atlanta and finding his way to the Downtown Connector ... Authorities had to close the interstate southbound from the Grady Hospital curve to the I-20 interchange as law enforcement tried to corral the zebra and walk him up an exit ramp ... Initially three Atlanta police officers on motorcycles tried to corral the animal until handlers could grab hold of his

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Bison Moved to Ted Turner's Ranch

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Published Feb. 17, 2010 at 4:45 p.m.

HELENA, Mont. (AP) Nearly 50 of the 88 bison that have been held in a quarantine compound outside Yellowstone National Park were loaded in large stock trailers Wednesday morning for the two-hour ride to their new home on Ted Turner's ranch ... ``The first three trailers just left,'' Turner's ranch manager, Russ Miller, said in a phone interview shortly before noon Wednesday. ``This is exciting. It's a big step toward conservation of Yellowstone bison.'' ... The remaining 40 head were to be

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Isakson votes against Becker to NLRB

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Published Feb. 4, 2010 at 3:59 p.m.

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U.S. Sen. Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., on Thursday voted against adding labor lawyer Craig Becker to the National Labor Relations Board, arguing labor groups would use Becker to make changes to labor laws they cannot get passed in Congress ...

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Ga. Kaiser head to chair Grady Foundation board

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Published Feb. 2, 2010 at 10:35 a.m.

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Peter Andruszkiewicz, president of Kaiser Permanente of Georgia, has been named chairman of the Henry W. Grady Health System Foundation ...

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Rev. Lowery Hospitalized

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Published Feb. 1, 2010 at 3:31 a.m.

(WSB Radio) -- The Rev. Dr. Joseph Lowery is hospitalize, but friends say his condition is not serious ... "He was having shortness of breath, and he didn't come to the Trumpet Awards last night," fellow civil rights leader Andrew Young told the Atlanta Journal Constitution Sunday night ... He "has been in and out of the hospital before. I have not heard that it was serious. I think he was having some respiratory problems," added Young ... David Stokes, another friend, said Lowery was admitted

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