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Weatherization help available for homeowners
Low-income homeowners in DeKalb can apply for thousands of dollars in home weatherization assistance on Aug. 21 at the Entrepreneurium on Memorial Drive. The application event takes place from 11 ...
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Zepora Roberts Roberts fighting claims her daughters get special treatment from districts
DeKalb School Board Vice Chairwoman Zepora Roberts is apologizing for threatening a television reporter doing a story about rampant nepotism among current and former administrators. During an on-...
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Web tool to help employers navigate
Health Reform Navigator, a new Internet tool from the Georgia Public Policy Foundation, may help employers and their workers wade through the provisions of the Affordable Care Act. The tool provid...
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Telework week offers look at options
Employers and their employees can take a break from Atlanta’s infamous traffic during Georgia Telework Week, Aug. 23-27. The state and the Clean Air Campaign have teamed to encourage commuters to ...
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Properties like this abandoned subdivision on Dogwood Farms Road in Lithonia will have to be registered and maintained under a new law passed July 27 by DeKalb commissioners. Foreclosed property registry to help fight blight
Owners of foreclosed properties will now have to register them with DeKalb County. The new Foreclosure Registry Program was approved 6-1 on July 27 by the DeKalb Board of Commissioners to help pro...
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Extended-benefit checks for jobless in the mail, really
Georgia reinstated unemployment benefits for 90,994 jobless Georgians this week. State Labor Commissioner Michael Thurmond said the unemployed workers began getting checks this week after Presiden...
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Free home help for area families
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Homeowners who are facing foreclosure can speak with lenders July 30 and 31 at a “Help for Homeowners” workshop at the Atlanta Marriott Marquis. The free event is co-hosted by U.S. Reps. Hank John...
Ticket frenzy a hoax, but HEAT is on
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A “30-day speeding ticket frenzy” circulating via e-mail and on message boards online about a crackdown in Georgia beginning Aug. 1 is a hoax, the State Patrol says. Its Web site directs visitors ...
Foreclosure seminar offering free help for homeowners
by Jennifer Ffrench Parker
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Homeowners facing foreclosure can get free help to save their homes on July 30 and 31 at the Atlanta Marriott Marquis hotel in Atlanta. The two-day “Help for Home­owners Community Event” is hosted...
Workshop to teach worker eligibility rules
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Small-business owners can get information on federal regulations at a July 27 employer compliance assistance forum hosted by the DeKalb office of the University of Georgia Small Business Developmen...
Renovations transform Fairington Wal-Mart
by Jennifer Ffrench Parker
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Shoppers at the Wal-Mart Supercenter on Fairington Road are picking their jaws up off the floor. They walk through the doors of the Lithonia store and can’t believe it’s the same place. Instead o...
June unemployment rate dipped
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The state’s unemployment is rate dipped slightly in June to 10 percent. It was 33rd month in a row that Georgia has exceeded the national jobless rate, now at 9.5 percent. June’s seasonally adjus...
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