First Slice 10-7-15: Delta’s cutting jobs

Plus, street photography is unconstitutional?

Delta Airlines is dropping an unspecified number of management positions, despite reporting more than $2 billion in profits the first half of the year. A travel industry analyst says the Atlanta-based airliner is trying to make sure “its management ranks don’t get bloated.” 
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? Georgia is among 29 states lacking legislation that protects LGBT citizens from discrimination. And the state doesn’t have any hate crime laws in place. Georgia Equality’s Executive Director Jeff Graham says 2016’s legislative session will entertain bills to enforce workplace equality for the LGBT community.
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? State Sen. Ross Tolleson, R-Perry is stepping down from his legislative position after being diagnosed with early-stage Alzheimer’s. The 59-year-old will vacate the seat near the middle of his two-year term. Elections to fill the slot will be scheduled soon.
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? Jerod Roth was fired from an Atlanta-based marketing firm after a flood of racist comments were posted alongside a selfie of him with his colleague’s 3-year-old son. Roth’s friends cracked slavery jokes and asked where he “picked up” the boy, who is black.
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? The controversial Atlanta Braves bridge is flashing a new price tag. And it’s slated to cost $2.2 million more than previously estimated. 
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? A former Georgia police officer videotaped a motorcyclist pointing a handgun at a traveling motorist in Coweta County. The witness called the police who subsequently apprehended the biker. But after police spoke with the gun-toting citizen and reviewed the ex-cop’s dashcam footage, the man in question was released and no charges were pressed.
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?Atlanta City Councilman Kwanza Hall is pushing for legislation to deem photography a legal form of expression. His efforts aim to repeal a decades-old “unconstitutional” city ordinance that called street photography “unlawful.”
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