Cobb County (Ga)

Schools Are Spending Billions on High-Tech Defense for Mass Shootings

Reid Bauer was finishing lunch period last year at his middle school in the Atlanta area when an alarm began blaring through the halls, warning of an emergency. Reid, then in sixth grade, had never heard the school’s “code red” alert before. It was part of a new $5 million crisis management service that the […]

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Marjorie Taylor Greene Could Represent 2 Largely Black Atlanta Suburbs

POWDER SPRINGS, Ga. — Less than a 30-minute drive from Atlanta, Powder Springs embodies the changes reshaping Georgia politics. Shops and restaurants owned almost entirely by Black proprietors line its downtown center and are frequented by a growing population of young and racially diverse residents. The suburban city elected its first Black mayor in 2015, […]

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