June 29, 2025

AJC Freelancer

Banking

Kirby Smart banking on young Georgia football team’s ‘fire, passion and energy’

Smart hopes that a younger Georgia team has something to prove. It certainly has plenty of doubt, in a way previous and more experienced Georgia teams haven’t faced. Georgia entered last season as the No. 1 team in the preseason AP Top 25. That likely won’t be the case entering this season, as most early

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Finance

Longtime Atlanta City Council member, finance guru says goodbye

Shook is self-described as the “worrier in chief,” who often challenges the administration’s finance strategies. “If budgets are kids, I’m now an empty nester, which is gonna take some getting used to,” Shook said last week after the body passed next year’s record-high $975 million general fund budget. The city’s new fiscal year begins July

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Funds

Parents raise funds for Angelman syndrome research

Stetson was diagnosed with Angelman syndrome a couple months later, when the results of genetic blood work revealed that he had a deleted gene on the maternally derived Chromosome 15. The neurogenetic disorder occurs in about one in 15,000 births and affects around 500,000 people worldwide. “I think we were both in shock. We had

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