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Atlanta Georgia business directory 125 199 The General Assembly shall not have the power to authorize any contract or agreement which may have the effect of or which is intended to have the effect of defeating or lessening competition or encouraging a monopoly which are hereby declared to be unlawful and void. The Alliance of American Football's Atlanta franchise the Atlanta Legends began play in 2019 They played at Georgia State Stadium but the league's football operations were reportedly suspended and the team folded. . . . In 1997 drug-related crime in metro Atlanta increased slightly in part due to Atlanta becoming an important distribution center for cocaine and other related drugs imported from Mexico These increases were mostly seen in Fulton Gwinnett DeKalb Cobb and Clayton counties Many law enforcement agencies in the area have joined forces together with the Atlanta Police Department in an effort to decrease the overall crime in metro Atlanta, Main article: Protected areas of Georgia (U.S state) Georgia county and city public school systems are administered by school boards with members elected at the local level as of 2013 all but 19 of 181 boards are elected from single-member districts Residents and activist groups in Fayette County Georgia sued the board of commissioners and school board for maintaining an election system based on at-large voting which tended to increase the power of the majority and effectively prevented minority participation on elected local boards for nearly 200 years a change to single-member districts has resulted in the African-American minority being able to elect representatives of its choice.

South Africa (84) Water is provided by various county and a few city systems Several of these systems actually serve parts of neighboring counties and cities as well the Cobb-Marietta Water Authority serves not only Cobb but also parts of neighboring Paulding and Cherokee counties for example During drought or other emergency cities and counties can enact outdoor water-use restrictions however some cross-jurisdiction water systems have also acted to put bans in place in late September 2007 the state Environmental Protection Division of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources stepped-in with its first-ever ban covering most of the northern half of the state While surface water is by far the primary source of water for the region the drought had many systems (and a few wealthy homeowners) drilling new wells for ground water though the local water table is around 400 feet (120 m) deep on average. Fulton County is one of the most reliably Democratic counties in the entire nation it has voted Democratic in every presidential election since 1876 except that of 1928 and again in 1972 when George McGovern could not win a single county in Georgia the demographic character of the Democratic Party has changed; as conservative whites previously its chief members in the South have mostly shifted to the Republican Party in Fulton County Democrats are composed primarily of liberal urbanites of various ethnicities and a growing contingent of suburban voters Except for a small sliver of Buckhead the entire county is represented by Democrats in the U.S House with John Lewis representing the core of Atlanta David Scott representing the southern suburbs and Lucy McBath representing most of the northern suburbs which had historically been Republican-leaning! The Georgia Institute of Technology is a public institution that receives funds from the State of Georgia tuition fees research grants and alumni contributions in 2014 the Institute's revenue amounted to about $1.422 billion Fifteen percent came from state appropriations and grants while 20% originated from tuition and fees Grants and contracts accounted for 55% of all revenue Expenditures were about $1.36 billion Forty-eight percent went to research and 19% went to instruction the Georgia Tech Foundation runs the university's endowment and was incorporated in 1932 it includes several wholly owned subsidiaries that own land on campus or in Midtown and lease the land back to the Georgia Board of Regents and other companies and organizations Assets totaled $1.882 billion and liabilities totaled $0.478 billion in 2014 as of 2007 Georgia Tech had the most generous alumni donor base percentage wise of any public university ranked in the top 50 in 2015 the university received a $30 million grant from Atlanta philanthropist Diana Blank to build the "most environmentally-sound building ever constructed in the Southeast.". 11 References 9 References, 44 2311, 63 Jeremy Walker; A Burlington Northern EMD F3 leads the North Coast Hiawatha into Yakima Washington in July 1971 an example of early Amtrak "rainbow" consists made up of equipment still painted in the colors of various freight carriers, Atlanta Georgia business directory, 2.2 Geology and terrain 72/22 91/32 4.2 Privileges of members. After the war there was considerable violence against freedmen in the county During the post-Reconstruction period violence and the number of lynchings of blacks increased in the late 19th century as whites exercised terrorism to re-establish and maintain white supremacy Whites lynched 35 African Americans here from 1877-1950; most were killed around the turn of the 20th century This was the highest total in the state With a total of 589 Georgia was second to Mississippi in its total number of lynchings in this period.