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Find out which of our counties is the most dysfunctional

When Victor Hill took office as Clayton County sheriff in January—despite thirty-two pending felony charges—we were tempted to dub Clayton our most dysfunctional county. Read More

Does a Mableton experiment hold the answer for aging Atlantans?

The suburb's effort to become a Lifelong community

The corner of Clay and Floyd roads in south Cobb County looks like any suburban intersection: mega RaceTrac gas station, Food Depot grocery store with a gargantuan parking lot, cars whizzing by to beat the traffic light. Read More

Look who's talking

Obama will make history at Morehouse, Saxby Chambliss will address UGA grads

Talk about getting off to a great start at a new job. John Silvanus Wilson Jr. was three weeks into his gig as Morehouse College president when he got a call from the White House: President Obama was interested in delivering the 2013 commencement address. Read More

Man's best lab partner

Dogs helpful in medical research

A pit bull named Petey is romping around twenty months after undergoing an investigational brain tumor treatment—developed at Emory University in conjunction with the University of Georgia’s College of Veterinary Medicine. Read More

Anthony C. Winkler may be the best novelist you've never heard of

The Jamaica-born writer talks about his homeland and his latest work of fiction

Jamaica-born Anthony C. Winkler, dapper and quick-witted at seventy-one, immigrated more than half a century ago to America, and ultimately to Atlanta. Even now, though, the island continues to shape his extraordinary fiction. Winkler may be the best novelist you’ve never heard of. Read More