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Plans for a $5 billion Rivian electric vehicle factory east of Atlanta are barreling forward after an incentive agreement cleared two key county votes, but an opposition group has raised concerns about the way one board approved it.
Georgia public health board stopped meetings during pandemic May 21, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail ATLANTA (AP) — The advisory board for Georgia’s public health agency stopped holding meetings for more than a year during the coronavirus pandemic — a move that its leaders say was necessary to focus on the emergency response, though critics contend it made the agency less transparent at a time of crisis. The board of physicians and health professionals that advises the Georgia Department of Public Health held its last meeting Feb. 11, 2020, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported Friday. Th...
And the statement does not fall into a privileged category. A statement can be made either orally (which is called slander) or written (which is called libel, often used interchangeably with the word defamation). In the old days — before "publishing" became as easy as pushing out a tweet — slander was not considered quite as serious as libel. Saying something potentially defamatory in a debate on the town hall steps just didn't reach as many ears or eyes as the written word. "These days, there really is not much difference because almost all communication is really mass," says Greg Lisby,...