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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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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
Estimated attendance at a...
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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
Approximate number of people who watched the ceremony at...
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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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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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Add It Up: Runoff roulette News Features
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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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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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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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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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
Number...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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