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Media is also an important aspect of Atlanta's economy in fact the city is even a major cable television programming center Ted Turner established the headquarters of both the Cable News Network (CNN) and the Turner Broadcasting System (TBS) in the city Cox Enterprises the nation's third-largest cable television service and the publisher of over a dozen American newspapers is headquartered in the city the Weather Channel is headquartered just outside of Atlanta in suburban Cobb County, The idea of a technology school in Georgia was introduced in 1865 during the Reconstruction period Two former Confederate officers Major John Fletcher Hanson (an industrialist) and Nathaniel Edwin Harris (a politician and eventually Governor of Georgia) who had become prominent citizens in the town of Macon Georgia after the Civil War strongly believed that the South needed to improve its technology to compete with the industrial revolution which was occurring throughout the North However because the American South of that era was mainly populated by agricultural workers and few technical developments were occurring a technology school was needed, Places with 75,000 to 99,999 inhabitants. ! 2.9 Rolling stock Whenever a vacancy occurs in the General Assembly an event that occurs whenever a member dies resigns or moves from the district from which he was elected it is filled according to Georgia law and the Constitution If the vacancy occurs anytime prior to the end of the legislative session in the second year of a term the governor must issue a writ of special election within ten days of the vacancy occurring and if the vacancy occurs after the end of the legislative session in the second year of a term then the governor may choose to issue a writ of special election But if the vacancy exists at the time that an extraordinary session is called then the governor must issue a writ of special election within 2 days after the call for the extraordinary session and if the vacancy occurs after the call but before the special session has concluded then the governor must issue a writ of special election within 5 days of the occurrence in each case the writ of special election must designate a day on which the election will be held which must be no less than 30 days and no more than 60 days after the governor issues the writ, 1.3 Steam power introduced 1.4 The Assembly arrives in Milledgeville. ! . Jasper Wrestling Sandy Springs pop 93,853, In 2004 a stalemate in federal support of Amtrak forced cutbacks in services and routes as well as resumption of deferred maintenance in fiscal 2004 and 2005 Congress appropriated about $1.2 billion for Amtrak $300 million more than President George W Bush had requested However the company's board requested $1.8 billion through fiscal 2006 the majority of which (about $1.3 billion) would be used to bring infrastructure rolling stock and motive power back to a state of good repair in Congressional testimony the DOT Inspector General confirmed that Amtrak would need at least $1.4 billion to $1.5 billion in fiscal 2006 and $2 billion in fiscal 2007 just to maintain the status quo in 2006 Amtrak received just under $1.4 billion with the condition that Amtrak would reduce (but not eliminate) food and sleeper service losses Thus dining service was simplified and now requires two fewer on-board service workers Only Auto Train and Empire Builder services continue regular made-on-board meal service in 2010 the Senate approved a bill to provide $1.96 billion to Amtrak but cut the approval for high-speed rail to a $1 billion appropriation. *** No cap insignia on Hall of Fame plaque, The Atlanta-Fulton County Library system began in 1902 as the Carnegie Library of Atlanta one of the first public libraries in the United States in 1935 the city of Atlanta and the Fulton County Board of Commissioners signed a contract under which library service was extended to all of Fulton County Then in 1982 Georgia voters passes a constitutional Amendment authorizing the transfer of responsibility for the Library system from the city of Atlanta to the county on July 1 1983 the transfer finally became official and the system was renamed the Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System.

Main article: Government of Georgia (U.S state), Members of the General Assembly receive salaries provided by law so long as that salary does not increase before the end of the term during which the increase becomes effective Members of the Georgia General Assembly currently earn $17,000 a year. Privileges of members Milton pop 32,661 Acworth pop 20,425 Under the leadership of Ella Gaines Yates who was the first African American director of the Library System a new Central library was opened to the public in May 1988 the building was designed by Marcel Breuer a participant in the innovative Bauhaus movement working side-by-side with his associate Hamilton Smith the Central Library was dedicated on May 25 1980 and Breuer would die a year later on July 1981 at the age of 81. (1,041,423) See also: List of hip hop musicians from Atlanta, The water boundaries are still set to be the original thalweg of the rivers Since then several have been inundated by lakes created by dams including the Apalachicola/Chattahoochee/Flint point now under Lake Seminole! State taxes Map of elevations in Georgia, Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area, Major healthcare systems Industry connections. . Founded as the Georgia School of Technology Georgia Tech assumed its present name in 1948 to reflect a growing focus on advanced technological and scientific research Unlike most similarly named universities (such as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the California Institute of Technology) the Georgia Institute of Technology is a public institution.