First Slice 4-6-15: Georgia’s budget to fund lots and lots of construction projects
So long, Melvin Upton and Craig Kimbrel!
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- A new parking deck will soon be headed to the Georgia World Congress Center’s campus, not too far from a certain $1.4 billion stadium under construction.
Georgia’s finalized budget contains more than $1 billion to help contractors and construction companies fund a variety of projects such as school buildings, public libraries, and a parking deck close to the Atlanta Falcons stadium.
Nothing says “Welcome to Opening Day, Atlanta Braves fans!” like trading your best pitcher the night before the season starts.
A teenager yesterday afternoon was shot in the torso while playing basketball at Perkerson elementary school. According to police, one of three suspects involved confronted him about remarks made about a gang.
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Dessa Curb, the lone APS defendant to be cleared of charges, reflects on the verdict: “All I could think of was I was going to be OK because God had promised good to me.”
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Rolling Stone has finally published Columbia Journal-Review’s full report on what went wrong with the magazine’s story about a horrific sexual assault on University of Virginia’s campus that didn’t actually happen.