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Austell April 20, 2022

Austell City Council rundown: police K-9 dog Jerry Lee retires, new street sweeper authorized, Parks & Rec approved for state parks & rec organization

The City of Austell posted the following summary of their April city council meeting: At the City of Austell’s April 2022 City Council meeting, it was announced that Austell K-9…

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Health Care April 18, 2022

Do you need a second booster shot? An epidemiologist scoured the latest research and has some answers

By Katelyn Jetelina, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] In late March 2022, the U.S. Food and Drug…

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Science and Technology April 18, 2022

A large solar storm could knock out the power grid and the internet – an electrical engineer explains how

By David Wallace, Mississippi State University [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] On Sept. 1 and 2, 1859, telegraph systems around the world failed catastrophically. The…

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Climate and Weather April 18, 2022

Climate change will transform how we live, but these tech and policy experts see reason for optimism

By Robert Lempert, Pardee RAND Graduate School and Elisabeth Gilmore, Carleton University [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] It’s easy to feel pessimistic when scientists around…

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Holidays April 17, 2022

How a coffee company and a marketing maven brewed up a Passover tradition: A brief history of the Maxwell House Haggadah

By Kerri Steinberg, Otis College of Art and Design For more than a millennium, the haggadah has been the centerpiece of the Jewish holiday of Passover. The book sets out…

International April 16, 2022

What’s next for Pakistan after Imran Khan’s ouster?

By Ayesha Jalal, Tufts University [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] A protracted political drama in Pakistan turned a page on April 10, 2022, with Prime…

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Health Care April 16, 2022

COVID reports to be weekly moving forward

The Georgia Department of Public Health will be issuing its COVID-19 reports on a weekly basis moving forward. April 15 was the last of the COVID Daily Status Reports. The…

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Holidays April 16, 2022

Sacred hares, banished winter witches and pagan worship – the roots of Easter Bunny traditions are ancient

By Tok Thompson, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] The Easter Bunny is a much celebrated character in…

Sports April 15, 2022

I’ve studied stadium financing for over two decades – and the new Bills stadium is one of the worst deals for taxpayers I’ve ever seen

By Victor Matheson, College of the Holy Cross [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] After New York lawmakers blew past the deadline to approve the state…

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