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Richmond Becomes First City in Contra Costa to Approve Rent Control

Contra Costa Times (California)

http://www.contracostatimes.com/richmond/ci_28520869/richmond-becomes-first-city-contra-costa-approve-rent

 

Hearing on New Vogtle Nuclear Reactors Provides New Information on Mounting Risks and Costs

Clean Energy

http://blog.cleanenergy.org/2015/07/07/hearing-on-new-vogtle-nuclear-reactors-provides-new-information-on-mounting-risks-and-costs/

 

Georgia Charter Schools: Uneven Results and Delays in Closing Failing Ones

Get Schooled blog, Atlanta Journal-Constitution

http://getschooled.blog.ajc.com/2015/07/16/georgia-charter-schools-uneven-results-and-delays-in-closing-failing-ones/

 

ALEC Admits School Vouchers are for Kids in Suburbia

Truthout.org

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/32026-alec-admits-school-vouchers-are-for-kids-in-suburbia

 

600 U.S. Churches Call For an End to the War on Drugs

NBC News

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/600-u-s-churches-call-end-war-drugs-n389511

 

Register Minority Voters in Georgia and Go To Jail

New Republic

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/121715/georgia-secretary-state-hammers-minority-voter-registration-efforts

 

Pope Francis Apologizes to Indigenous People for Grave Sins of Colonialism

Indian Country

http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2015/07/10/pope-francis-apologizes-indigenous-peoples-grave-sins-colonialism-161030

 

KKK Fight to Adopt Georgia Highway Hits Appeals Court

Atlanta Business Chronicle

http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/morning_call/2015/07/kkk-fight-to-adopt-georgia-highway-hits-appeals.html

 

Georgia Leading Lawsuit to Overturn EPA Clean Water Rule

Political Insider Blog, Atlanta Journal-Constitution

http://politics.blog.ajc.com/2015/06/30/georgia-leading-lawsuit-to-overturn-epa-clean-water-rule/

 

NASA Just Discovered Earth-like Planet

Yahoo.com

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/s/nasa-just-discovered-earth-planet-162703089.html

 

Stranded in Atlanta’s Food Deserts

Atlanta Magazine

http://www.atlantamagazine.com/great-reads/stranded-in-atlantas-food-deserts/

 

People in Toronto Made Memorial for Dead Raccoon after City Forgot to Pick it Up

Bored Panda

http://www.boredpanda.com/dead-raccoon-memorial-shrine-mourning-deadraccoonto-toronto/

 

(END/2015)