Atlanta Journal Constitution

Health Policy Dogs That Won't Hunt -- Even in Texas and Georgia

Wendell Potter | Posted 05.07.2012

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Yes, HSAs can be just what the doctor ordered for the young, healthy and highly compensated among us, but many others who enroll in these plans find out when they get sick that coverage is far from adequate.

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Schools Nationwide Flagged For Possible Cheating, Some Question Analysis

AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 03.25.2012

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ATLANTA — Hundreds of school systems nationwide exhibit suspicious test scores that point to the possibility of cheating, according to an investigat...

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Georgia Temporarily Suspends Investigations Of Cheating Teachers

Posted 12.31.2011

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Georgia's teacher licensing agency has temporarily halted investigations of nearly 180 educators implicated in the Atlanta Public Schools' widespread ...

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Atlanta High Schools Broke Rules To Meet Performance Standards

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution | Alan Judd | Posted 12.24.2011

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A learning disability made school hard for Chantel Cox. But she always stayed on grade level and looked forward to earning a high school diploma. She ...

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To Catch A Cheater: Behind The Atlanta Public Schools Scandal

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 09.05.2011

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Three years ago, Heather Vogell, an investigative reporter at the Atlanta Journal Constitution, sat down with a data analyst to crunch some numbers. ...

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Falcons Star Lashes Out At Atlanta Paper

Posted 07.23.2011

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Atlanta Falcons receiver Roddy White went on a profanity-laced rant on his Twitter account directed at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. ProFootba...

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What U.S. City Has the Worst Sports Teams?

Danny Groner | Posted 05.25.2011

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While debate over sports often centers around which team is supreme in its sport, there's also simultaneously an ongoing discussion over which city provokes the most misery and suffering for its fans.

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Divisional Round Losses: Four Cities' Newspapers React

Danny Groner | Posted 05.25.2011

This weekend of the NFL playoffs saw both conference favorites -- Atlanta Falcons and New England Patriots -- get knocked off, following a Wild Card week that had its own share of surprises.

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Trial Beginning In Auburn Student's Murder

ajc.com | Mike Morris | Posted 05.25.2011

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The trial is set to begin Monday for the man accused of killing an Auburn University freshman from Marietta nearly three years ago. Lauren Burk, a ...

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Cynics Need to Drop Their Fear, Contempt

Michael Roth | Posted 05.25.2011

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In this age of degraded political discourse and anonymously funded attack ads, it's easy to see the reasons for the cynical withdrawal from public life. But we must turn back the tide of cynicism.

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Augusta State U Student SUES, Claims School Penalized Her For Anti-Gay Views

Posted 05.25.2011

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Augusta State University graduate student Jennifer Keeton claims she was told by the school to change her views opposing homosexuality -- and now she'...

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Cynthia Tucker: The Girl From Monroeville

Nancy Snow | Posted 05.25.2011

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Cynthia Tucker is the Washington-based columnist for the Atlanta-Journal Constitution and winner of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in Commentary.

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Georgia: 77 Percent Tuition Increase Needed

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution | Posted 05.25.2011

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Georgia's 35 colleges and universities early this week will release their plans for how to make nearly $600 million in cuts for the coming fiscal year...

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Before Subprime There Was ACORN

Jerry Chautin | Posted 05.25.2011

Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, known as ACORN, is in the news again and conservative politicians are going for the jugular vein.

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Atlanta Journal Constitution Moves To Suburbs

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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ATLANTA — The Atlanta Journal-Constitution is moving to the suburbs, abandoning its downtown space that the company described Monday as outdated...

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Dollars & Health: Cashing In On Generics

Andrea Chalupa | Posted 11.17.2011

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Andy Miller, formerly a health care reporter for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, has joined Walletpop as a watch dog for all things health care and...

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Atlanta Journal-Constitution Editorial Page May Get More Conservative

New York Times | Richard Perez Pena | Posted 05.25.2011

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Cynthia Tucker, the editorial page editor of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, has been...provoking anger with strongly worded positions to the left o...

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How Journalism Plays Twister...To the Right

Will Bunch | Posted 05.25.2011

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It's so true that freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose -- and so our brush here with terminal illness is occasionally truly liberating for America's newsrooms.

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Luckovich's Lament: Cartooning Obama Is Gonna Be Tough

Diane Tucker | Posted 05.25.2011

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The more editorial cartoonist Mike Luckovich sees of Barack Obama, the more he likes the President-elect. Oddly enough, this turn of events has the Pulitzer Prize winning artist very, very worried.

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Key Newspapers Weigh In On Obama v. Clinton

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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Even on the morning of Nevada's important caucus, the campaigns of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton were looking ahead, trumpeting influential newspap...

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