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Price: Kagan must not decide health care law

November 17, 2011 Express Telegraph

Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan must recuse herself from deciding the Constitutionality of the health care law Congress passed last year, a Georgia Congressman said. “The President’s health care law – now headed to the Supreme Court – is a threat to America’s health care system and the principles of affordability, accessibility, quality, responsiveness, innovation, and choices,” U.S Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga., said in a statement. “It is important that the Court has agreed to

Deal: Obamacare case critical to state’s future

November 14, 2011 Express Telegraph

Gov. Nathan Deal welcomed the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to hear Georgia’s case challenging the constitutionality of Obamacare. More than half of the nation’s states have signed on to the case. “The state of Georgia has been a leader in the fight against the crippling mandates of Obamacare,” Deal said in a statement. “As a member of Congress, I was the first to question the constitutionality of the individual mandate on the floor of the

Dunwoody votes against parks measure

November 9, 2011 The Travel Trolley

Dunwoody residents on Tuesday overwhelmingly shot down a city proposal to buy and improve parks in the city.

Take a ride back in time at Duluth museum

November 5, 2011 The Travel Trolley

For more than four decades, the Southeastern Railway Museum has been dedicated to the preservation of Georgia Railroad’s History.

Georgians are leaving banks, moving to credit unions

November 4, 2011 Express Telegraph

In response to a spate of newly proposed – and now mostly rescinded – fees at banks, more than 14,500 Georgians have switched from a bank to a credit union since Sept. 29, according to newly released data.

Model trains on display during Piedmont Pilgrimage

November 2, 2011 The Travel Trolley

The local chapter of the National Model Railroad Association is celebrating National Model Railroad Month by sponsoring a tour of more than 80 layouts throughout Metro Atlanta.

Amtrak: Atlanta station poses ‘impediment’ to improving Crescent

October 25, 2011 Todd DeFeo

Amtrak’s current station in Atlanta is hindering the railroad’s ability to improve the performance of the one passenger train that serves the city, the railroad said in a recent report.

Amtrak considering changes to Crescent

October 23, 2011 Todd DeFeo

Amtrak is considering running shorter versions of the Crescent passenger train between Atlanta and New Orleans to save money because of lower ridership numbers, according to a recent report from the passenger railroad.

Officials: Beware of deer this fall

October 20, 2011 The Travel Trolley

Georgia authorities are urging motorists to be cautious of deer this fall.

State’s high court reinstates death penalty in Hall County case

October 19, 2011 Express Telegraph

ATLANTA — The state's Supreme Court unanimously voted to reinstate the death sentence handed down to a man convicted in Hall County of the 1994 murders of his girlfriend and her friend. Earlier this year, a lower court threw out the sentence against Scotty Garnell Morrow after finding that he was denied effective counsel during the sentencing phase of his trial. But, in a decision handed down this week, Justice Hugh Thompson writes, “we conclude that trial