Add It Up: Can’t Add It Up News Features
Percentage range of Georgia sixth and seventh graders who failed the state social studies exam: 70-80
Approximate percentage of Georgia eighth-graders who failed the state math exam: 40
Percentage of Georgia eighth graders who failed math exam last year: 19
Percentage of eighth graders required to pass state math exam before advancing to high school: 100
Georgia’s high...
| more...Add It Up: Mother Nature gets cut first News Features
Estimated City of Atlanta budget shortfall in 2009: $140 million
Percentage of Department of Parks, Recreation and Cultural Affairs budget Mayor Franklin proposes cutting: 15
Positions cut from the parks department in 1993 and 1998 due to budget concerns: 137
Positions cut from the parks department in 2002 due to budget concerns: 127
Approximate number of parks department...
| more...Add It Up: Local Lungs News Features
Percent of Americans who live in counties with unhealthful levels of ozone or particle pollution: 40
Rank of Metro Atlanta among cities most polluted by year-round ozone: 12
Rank of Metro Atlanta among cities most polluted by year-round particle pollution: 6
Rank of Plant Bowen, a Georgia Power coal electricity plant in Cartersville, among national producers of smog-causing...
| more...Add It Up: Old King Coal News Features
Cost of one ton of Appalachian coal in 2007: $40
Cost of one ton of Appalachian coal in 2008: $90
Percentage of electricity price increase Georgia Power recently requested from the state Public Services Commission: 3
Number of times Georgia Power has requested rate increases during the past five years: 5
Amount Georgia Power parent company, Southern Co., spent on government...
| more...Add It Up: Foreclosures News Features
Home foreclosures in United States in March: 234,685
Home foreclosures in Georgia in March: 11,047
Percent increase from February 2008: 44.8
Percent increase from March 2007: 63.2
Number of states with more home foreclosures than Georgia in March: 3
Percentage drop in home sales reported by Atlanta-based homebuilder Ashton Woods in early 2008: 32.1
Number of...
| more...Add It Up: Priorities (1) News
Days Gov. Sonny Perdue, First Lady Mary Perdue and Secretary of State Karen Handel recently spent in China on a foreign trade mission: 5
Price for one round-trip business-class ticket from Atlanta to Shanghai: $13,839.15
International business trips Perdue has taken since 2003: 14
Jobs for Georgians Perdue’s trade mission reportedly secured: 20
Georgia...
| more...Add It Up: The city too busy for math News Features
Current projected revenue shortfall in Atlanta: $65 million
Amount by which Atlanta exceeded its budget during fiscal year that ended June 2007: $90 million
Amount city overestimated its year-to-year budget surplus since 2003: $241 million
Estimated revenue shortfall city predicts it will face next year: __$120 million
Amount of city’s budget shortfall when...
Add It Up: Take me out to the ball game News Features
Number of games Braves finished behind division champions in 2007: 5
Seasons the Braves have finished below .500 since 1991: 1
Combined age of Braves top four starting pitchers: 150
Combined number of Cy Young Awards they’ve won: 3
Last time a Braves pitcher won a Cy Young Award: 1998
John Smoltz’s career strike-outs per nine innings: 7.95
John...
| more...Add It Up: Life’s a gas News Features
Tons of CO2 emitted in 2007 by Plant Scherer, a coal power plant outside Macon: 27,200,000
Since 2002, number of states with lower increase in CO2 emissions than Georgia: 48
Pounds of CO2 emission stopped annually by replacing three incandescent bulbs with compact fluorescent bulbs: 300
Pounds of CO2 emission stopped annually by inflating your car tires correctly: 250
Pounds...
| more...Add It Up: Over there News Features
Years since U.S. invasion of Iraq: __5
Total number of U.S. military personnel in Iraq and Afghanistan: 7,284
American troops killed in Iraq: 3,987
American troops from Georgia killed in Iraq: 123
American troops from metro Atlanta killed in Iraq: 36
American troops from Georgia wounded in Iraq: 858
Youngest Georgian killed in Iraq: 19
Oldest Georgian...
| more...Add It Up: Rich chiefs News Features
Amount Coca-Cola Co. paid former CEO Neville Isdell in 2007: $31.9 million
Amount Coca-Cola paid current CEO Muhtar Kent in 2007: $8.7 million
Average salary of an account manager (sales) at Coca-Cola: $38,327
Amount Home Depot paid former CEO Robert Nardelli in 2006: $13.1 million
Value of Nardelli’s Home Depot severance package: $210 million
People Home Depot laid...
| more...Add It Up: Greenspace a go-go News Features
Acres identified as greenspace in 20-county metro area: 170,000
Approximate acreage of DeKalb County: 170,000
Amount of money regional voters have approved for greenspace acquisition since 2003: $2.16 million
Percentage of land in 20-county metro area protected as “greenspace”: 4
Number of acres of trees in metro Atlanta that are lost to development...
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Number of registered lobbyists in Georgia, as of 2007: 1,492
Amount lobbyists spent on Valentine’s Day for legislators and their spouses last year: $16,000
Amount lobbyists spent in 2007 on meals, tickets, entertainment and other perks for legislators: $1.4 million
Amount spent during 2008 legislative session, as of press time: $311,620.58
Number of groups represented by...
| more...Add It Up: Odd Bridges News Features
Months until 14th Street bridge replacement is supposed to be complete: 28
Southbound Downtown Connector off-ramps to Midtown now closed for bridge project: 3
Southbound Downtown Connector off-ramps to Midtown that remain open: 2
Months 14th Street bridge will be closed, starting this summer: 18
Number of bike lanes planned for replacement 14th Street bridge: 1
Number...
| more...Add It Up: Bad Cops News Features
Amount former Atlanta police officer Daniel Betts illegally took weekly from an apartment complex to provide extra patrols: $120
According to the FBI, minimum amount former Atlanta police officer Gregg Junnier took weekly from several businesses to provide extra patrols: $400
Years in prison Junnier faces for his role in the 2006 killing of 92-year-old Kathryn Johnston during a drug...
| more...Add It Up:Joblessness News Features
U.S. unemployment rate in November 2007: 4.7 percent
U.S. unemployment rate in December 2007: 5.0 percent
Months since such a large increase in unemployment was recorded in single month: 73
Months since the 9/11 attacks: 74
Georgia’s December 2007 unemployment rate: 4.6 percent
Unemployed persons in Georgia: 236,454
Approximate weekly unemployment...
| more...Add It Up: Better than Mississippi News Features
From zero to 100, Georgia’s overall state grade for public education: 80.2
Mississippi’s overall state grade for public education: 68.9
National average grade for public education: 75.9
Average dollars spent annually on each student in Georgia: 8,658
Rank of Georgia in United States for per-pupil spending: 27
Georgia’s grade for K-12 achievement: 68.1
K-12...
| more...Add It Up: Professionally speaking News Features
Number of Georgia state legislators: 236
Number of Republican legislators in 1988: 38
Number of Republican legislators in 2008: 140
Number of Democratic legislators in 1988: 197
Number of...
| more...Add It Up: Featherless Falcons News Features
Year the Atlanta Falcons franchise came into existence … 1966
Year the Falcons won their first division title … 1980
Years the Falcons have been in Atlanta … 41
Number of years the team has had a .500 record or lower … 32
Number of full-time head coaches in franchise history … 10
Number of those coaches who left with a winning record...
| more...Add it up: Beltline timeline News Features
Estimated years it will take to complete 22-mile Atlanta Beltline project: 25
Years it took to build the Great Pyramid at Giza: 20-30
Years it took to build a 31-mile tunnel and railway under the English Channel connecting England and France: 8
Years between the U.S.S.R. putting Laika the dog in space and Neil Armstrong walking on the moon: 12
Years it took to build the...
| more...Add It Up: Dept. of Water and Power News Features
Gallons of water consumed by average Cobb County household in
October: 6,510
Gallons of water used by Cobb resident Chris G. Carlos in October:
440,000
Swimming pools that much water could fill: 58
Gallons of water power plants Atkinson and McDonough consume daily from the Chattahoochee River: 862 million
Number of power plants located along the Chattahoochee...
| more...Add It Up: Trash talkin’ News Features
Pounds of trash the average American generates daily: 3.3
Pounds of trash the average Georgian generates daily: 6.6
Tons of solid waste disposed of in Atlanta in 2003: 192,363
Tons of recycling collected in 2003: 27,910
Cost of disposing Georgia’s trash in 2004: $90 million
Value of raw materials made if that trash would have been recycled: $250 million
Amount of...
| more...Add It Up: Mock the vote News Features
Percentage by which Alpharetta City Council Post 4 incumbent Debbie Gibson was defeated: 2
Page views of DUIDebbie.com, a page showing video of Gibson’s March DUI arrest: 18,000
Percentage of Doraville mayoral vote received by former Doraville City Councilman Tom Hart: 18
Number of months Doraville police chief served in the Army National Guard in Iraq before Hart...
| more...Add It Up: Colossus of roads News Features
Percentage of bridges in metro Atlanta rated “deficient” in a recent study: 20
Percentage of major roads and highways in metro Atlanta that are considered “congested”: 76
Percentage of Atlanta commuters who drive to work alone: 65
Total number of people killed in traffic accidents in Georgia from 2001-2005: 8,182
Projected cost of a planned “colossus of roads” for metro...
| more...Add It Up: Dead presidents for candidates News Features
Amount Democratic Sen. Barack Obama has raised in Georgia for his 2008 presidential campaign: $1,105,770
Amount Republican former Gov. Mitt Romney has raised in Georgia for his 2008 presidential campaign: $963,261
Amount Democratic former Sen. Mike Gravel has raised in Georgia for his 2008 presidential campaign: $1,375
Amount Republican Alan Keyes has raised in Georgia for his...
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