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Since the 1970s residents of Sandy Springs had waged a long-running battle to incorporate their community as a city which would make it independent of county council control They were repeatedly blocked in the state legislature by Atlanta Democrats but when control of state government switched to suburban Republicans after the 2002 and 2004 elections the movement to charter the city picked up steam. ; On May 7 2019 the Georgia High School Association (GHSA) announced that the football championships would be moved from Mercedes-Benz Stadium to Georgia State Stadium starting in the 2019 season citing the higher costs of renting Mercedes-Benz Stadium compared to the former Georgia Dome the GHSA's two years at Mercedes-Benz Stadium were also marred by logistical issues with the six of the eight 2017 championship games postponed and moved to school sites due to a winter storm hitting Atlanta and the 2018 championships were moved to mid-week due to Major League Soccer's Atlanta United FC hosting MLS Cup 2018 on December 8, Kennesaw pop 29,783 Bartow (105,054), Contents (as of 2010) George N Barnard photograph of Slave trader's business on Whitehall Street Atlanta Georgia 1864 ironically shows a United States Colored Troop Infantryman [Corporal] just by the door. 14 Matt Joyce, Outside the Northeast Corridor and stretches of track in Southern California and Michigan most Amtrak trains run on tracks owned and operated by privately owned freight railroads Freight rail operators are required under federal law to give dispatching preference to Amtrak trains Some freight railroads have been accused of violating or skirting these regulations allegedly resulting in passenger trains waiting in sidings for an hour or longer while waiting for freight traffic to clear the track the railroads' dispatching practices were investigated in 2008 resulting in stricter laws about train priority Subsequently Amtrak's overall on-time performance went up from 74.7% in fiscal 2008 to 84.7% in 2009 with long-distance trains and others outside the NEC seeing the greatest benefit the Missouri River Runner jumped from 11% to 95% becoming one of Amtrak's best performers the Texas Eagle went from 22.4% to 96.7% and the California Zephyr with a 5% on-time record in 2008 went up to 78.3% This improved performance coincided with a general economic downturn resulting in the lowest freight-rail traffic volumes since at least 1988 meaning less freight traffic to impede passenger traffic in 2018 Amtrak began issuing report cards grading each host railroad based on the railroad's impact on on-time performance the first report card issued in March 2018 includes one a (given to Canadian Pacific) and two Fs (given to CN and Norfolk Southern), 5.1 Arts and theatre Other rugby union teams include the Atlanta Harlequins who ranked No 2 in the United States in Division 1 for women's clubs under USA Rugby the governing body for rugby in the United States From 2014 to 2016 the suburb of Kennesaw hosted the USA Women's Sevens an event in the annual World Rugby Women's Sevens Series in the sevens version of the sport but that event has since moved to Las Vegas. Shooting ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Minor league affiliates. 63/17 73/23 In recent events Democrat Jim Martin ran against incumbent Republican Senator Saxby Chambliss Chambliss failed to acquire the necessary 50 percent of votes a Libertarian Party candidate receiving the remainder of votes in the runoff election held on December 2 2008 Chambliss became the second Georgia Republican to be reelected to the U.S Senate. Gold medal from the 1996 Summer Games, See also: List of gold mines in Georgia Suwanee pop 15,355 Georgia State Stadium was originally built for the 1996 Summer Olympics as Centennial Olympic Stadium Following the 1996 Summer Paralympics the Olympic Stadium was reconfigured as designed into the baseball-specific Turner Field serving as the home of the Atlanta Braves of Major League Baseball from 1997 until 2016 After the Braves' departure for SunTrust Park in Cobb County Georgia State University acquired Turner Field and its surrounding parking lots for a large scale expansion of the Georgia State campus which includes new private and student housing academic and retail space in addition to the stadium redevelopment; Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport has three cargo complexes that include two million square feet of space; the airport moves over 650,000 tons of cargo annually it has nearby cold storage for perishables and is the only airport in the Southeast with USDA-approved cold-treatment capabilities Delta Air Lines also offers an on-airport refrigeration facility for perishable cargo and a 250-acre Foreign Trade Zone is located at the airport, Each region has its own distinctive characteristics for instance the Ridge and Valley which lies in the northwest corner of the state includes limestone sandstone shale and other sedimentary rocks which have yielded construction-grade limestone barite ocher and small amounts of coal!

. Mining Rosa laevigata Cherokee rose the state flower of Georgia, Atlanta is home to one of the nation's largest gay pride festivals Atlanta Pride as well as what is billed as the world's largest black gay pride celebration Atlanta Black Pride, 2.1.2 Georgia State In early 1861 Georgia joined the Confederacy (with secessionists having a slight majority of delegates) and became a major theater of the Civil War Major battles took place at Chickamauga Kennesaw Mountain and Atlanta in December 1864 a large swath of the state from Atlanta to Savannah was destroyed during General William Tecumseh Sherman's March to the Sea 18,253 Georgian soldiers died in service roughly one of every five who served in 1870 following the Reconstruction Era Georgia became the last Confederate state to be restored to the Union. . . . .