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Saturday March 7, 2009 05:06 PM EST
State leads the country for population living in corrections system. Yippee. | more...

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Tuesday February 10, 2009 04:00 PM EST

Current amount, in dollars, of President Obama’s stimulus plan aimed to create jobs and spur the economy: 827 billion

Amount, in dollars, Mayor Shirley Franklin recently requested for Atlanta projects: 1.88 billion

Estimated number of city jobs Franklin says the federal stimulus plan could create: 40,000

Number of police officers Franklin wants to add with stimulus money:...

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Monday February 2, 2009 04:33 PM EST

Number of people who gathered at The Standard Jan. 8 to memorialize slain bartender John Henderson: 200

Number of Facebook members for Atlantans Together Against Crime four days after Henderson was killed: 750

Number of members as of last week: 5,558

Estimated attendance at the group’s first anti-crime rally last week in Little Five Points: 175

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Thursday January 22, 2009 07:53 PM EST

Approximate number of people who gathered in Centennial Olympic Park to watch the presidential inauguration: 1,000

Temperature in degrees, with wind chill included, at 9:05 a.m. on Jan. 20 in Atlanta: 11

image-1Number of people who attended Mayor Shirley Franklin’s inauguration ball in Washington, D.C.: 700

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Monday January 19, 2009 11:12 PM EST

Amount for which the Fulton sheriff’s office is being sued for sexual harassment: $8 million

Number of weeks newly elected Sheriff Ted Jackson was in office before the harassment lawsuit was filed: 1

Number of weeks previous Sheriff Myron Freeman had been in office before the Brian Nichols courthouse killings: 9

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Number of years the Fulton sheriff’s office...

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Sunday January 11, 2009 05:00 PM EST
Nothing makes money like sex, tobacco and booze. | more...

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Monday January 5, 2009 09:59 PM EST
Double-digit dip in Atlanta home prices — oh my! | more...

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Tuesday December 30, 2008 09:41 PM EST

Number of people who died jumping from metro Atlanta highway overpasses in 2008: 1

Number of buses to plunge off a highway overpass: 0

Number of people who threatened to jump from metro Atlanta construction cranes over this past year: 0

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Number of new Atlanta skyscrapers under construction or completed in the last 12 months: 11

Of all regional banks that failed...

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Tuesday December 23, 2008 06:16 PM EST
Celebs struggle with foreclosure, taxes and bounced checks. | more...

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Monday December 15, 2008 04:11 PM EST
MARTA operating expenses for FY09, in millions of dollars: 396 | more...

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Friday December 5, 2008 10:00 AM EST
For the homeless, benefits barely help and the donation meters might not work. | more...

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Wednesday November 26, 2008 08:36 PM EST

Number of Georgia runoff elections for statewide, partisan positions in the past 20 years: 2

Of those two, the number in which the top general-election vote-getter (a Democrat, in both instances) won the runoff: 0

Of voters in the 1992 general election, the percentage that returned to vote in the Senate runoff: 55

Of voters in the 2006 general election, the percentage that...

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Thursday November 20, 2008 07:26 PM EST
The high cost of self-sufficiency | more...

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Monday November 3, 2008 02:31 PM EST

Number of for-profit probation companies in Georgia that make money off people who can’t afford their misdemeanor court fines: 39

Number of people fined for misdemeanors who became clients of for-profit probation companies as soon as a 2000 law paved the way for the companies: 25,000

Amount of money that a former state official accepted from a for-profit probation company after...

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Saturday October 25, 2008 06:38 PM EDT
I’ve met the City of Brotherly Love, and Atlanta’s no City of Brotherly Love. | more...

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Wednesday October 22, 2008 08:19 PM EDT

Percentage of graduates in the last two Atlanta Police Academy classes who’ve been arrested or cited for a crime: 36

Of the 33 total graduates, number who became officers: 33

Number of those graduates who’d been denied jobs with other law enforcement agencies: 12

Minimum number of graduates who’d been deemed psychologically incompatible for work at another police...

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Wednesday October 8, 2008 04:46 PM EDT

Estimated cost to turn a once-rowdy nightlife district into the eight-acre, Rodeo Drive-styled “Streets of Buckhead” development: $1.5 billion

Cost of pair of horned-back alligator cowboy boots that will be available at Billy Martin, the Streets’ western-styled shop: $3,750

Cost of lamb’s wool coat for 3-year-old at Bonpoint, the Paris-based children’s store...

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Monday September 22, 2008 09:00 AM EDT

Pounds of marijuana seized during recent bust of “Gulf Cartel” drug ring in Atlanta: 51,147

At $200 per ounce, estimated cash value of marijuana seized: $163,670,400

Number of plastic bags required to sell seized marijuana in quarter-ounce portions: 3.27 million

At 85 joints per ounce, number of joints that can be rolled with 51,147 pounds of pot: 69,559,920

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Wednesday September 3, 2008 06:41 PM EDT

Number of major hurricanes to hit Georgia’s coast during the 19th century: 5

Number of major hurricanes to hit Georgia’s coast since 1900: 0

Number of Category 1 or 2 hurricanes to hit Georgia’s coast since 1900: 4

Years since last hurricane made landfall in Georgia: 29

People who used I-16 between Savannah and Macon to flee Hurricane Floyd in 1999: 2.5...

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Saturday August 30, 2008 06:44 AM EDT

Number of tornado warnings issued last Tuesday in metro Atlanta because of Tropical Storm Fay: 5

Gallons of rain the tempest added to Lake Lanier, the metro area’s main source of drinking water: 22 billion

Number of days that additional water can last metro Atlanta: 50

Inches Lake Lanier rose last Monday and Tuesday thanks to the storm: 30

Number of feet the lake is...

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Monday July 28, 2008 10:01 AM EDT

Number of building permits issued in Decatur in 1995: 349

Number of building permits issued in Decatur in 2007: 822

Percent decrease in car volume at the intersection of Ponce de Leon Avenue and Church Street from 2001 to 2006: 20

Population of Decatur in 2000: 18,147

Population of Decatur in 2007: 17,914

Average household size in the U.S.: 2.58

Average household...

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Sunday June 29, 2008 10:35 AM EDT

Earliest date new U.S. offshore drilling might produce oil for market: 2030

Earliest date oil from the Alaskan National Wildlife Refuge might produce oil for market: 2018

Estimated amount offshore and ANWR drilling will lower the price of gasoline per gallon in 2025: 3.5 cents

Barrels of oil Americans use daily: 21 million

Barrels of oil Tifton agricultural scientist J.C....

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Monday June 23, 2008 10:38 AM EDT

Amount of drug money former state Rep. Ron Sailor told an undercover FBI agent he was willing to launder: $300,000

Amount the agent, posing as a coke dealer, eventually gave Sailor: $375,000

Months after Sailor agreed to cooperate with authorities that he illegally obtained a $250,000 loan using his church as collateral: 3

Maximum years Sailor could spend in prison as a result of...

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Sunday June 15, 2008 10:07 AM EDT

MARTA’s current budget deficit: $43 million

Number of positions MARTA plans to eliminate because of deficit: 180

Number of these 180 positions that are currently vacant: 130

Number of future MARTA newly created station-agent positions being offered to newly laid-off MARTA employees: 50

Amount by which MARTA’s revenue from local sales taxes was below expectations...

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Monday June 9, 2008 10:00 AM EDT

Amount Sen. John McCain’s presidential campaign has raised in Georgia: $1,305,275

Amount Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential campaign has raised in Georgia: $2,458,219

Number of votes Obama received in 2008 Democratic Presidential Primary: 704,247

Number of votes McCain received in 2008 Georgia Republican Presidential Primary: 304,751

Number of votes Sen. John Kerry...

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