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#1. These Atlanta-based entrepreneurs have received national acclaim on social media for creating a business designed to remove boots from vehicle tires.
It’s the Boot Girls.
The Boot Girls have built a following of more than 85,000 across Instagram and TikTok, where they offer up the legally dubious practice of boot removals for $50, making them two of the most in-demand entrepreneurs in Atlanta.
#2. A Black woman appointed by Democrats to the Board of Elections in this South Georgia county was removed from her seat under a new GOP-backed state law.
It’s Ware County.
Until this year, Republicans and Democrats each picked two people for the Ware County Election Board. But a new state law remaking the board gives the Republican-dominated county commission the final say.
Her replacement is a conservative known locally for defending a Confederate memorial in downtown Waycross.
#3. Middle Georgia State University is one of four public colleges/ universities that will receive what change in the upcoming academic year?
It’s higher tuition rates/fees.
Regents voted Tuesday to increase tuition or fees at Middle Georgia State University, Georgia College and State University, the University of West Georgia and Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College.
The other 22 Georgia public universities and colleges will remain mostly flat in fees and tuition for the 2023-2024 academic year, despite concerns that declining enrollment and a legislative funding cut are stressing school budgets.
#4. On Tuesday, hundreds of Atlanta residents rallied outside the Atlanta City Council to fight against which controversial construction project?
It’s the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center.
Despite pleas from local community members, the Atlanta City Council is moving forward with a vote to allocate millions of dollars to a private nonprofit that plans to build a controversial police and firefighter training center in South DeKalb County.
#5. Clayton County will receive almost _____ dollars from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as part of EPA’s Clean Bus Program.
It’s $10 million.
The money will go toward buying 25 electric school buses and 25 charging units. The EPA Clean Bus Program will see $5 billion be distributed for school districts to buy low and zero-emission buses.
