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J The state legislature may allow municipalities to institute local sales taxes and special local taxes such as the 2% SPLOST tax and the 1% sales tax for MARTA serviced counties Excise taxes are levied on alcohol tobacco and motor fuel Owners of real property in Georgia pay property tax to their county All taxes are collected by the Georgia Department of Revenue and then properly distributed according to any agreements that each county has with its cities. . In 1916 98% of all commercial intercity travelers in the United States moved by rail and the remaining 2% moved by inland waterways Nearly 42 million passengers used railways as primary transportation Passenger trains were owned and operated by the same privately owned companies that operated freight trains As the 20th century progressed patronage declined in the face of competition from buses air travel and the automobile New streamlined diesel-powered trains such as the Pioneer Zephyr were popular with the traveling public but could not reverse the trend by 1940 railroads held just 67 percent of commercial passenger-miles in the United States in real terms passenger-miles had fallen by 40% since 1916 from 42 billion to 25 billion, foreign-born status Pop 2010 % of total 2010 Pop 2000[A] % of total 2000 absolute, Atlanta is home to many rugby union clubs on September 21 2018 Major League Rugby the top-level rugby union league in North America announced that Atlanta was one of the expansion teams joining the league for the 2020 season the team name Rugby ATL was revealed on February 26 2019 Games will be broadcast on WSB-TV.

Lines Parks and recreational activities Georgia has 85 public colleges universities and technical colleges in addition to over 45 private institutes of higher learning Among Georgia's public universities is the flagship research university the University of Georgia founded in 1785 as the country's oldest state-chartered university and the birthplace of the American system of public higher education the University System of Georgia is the presiding body over public post-secondary education in the state the System includes 29 institutions of higher learning and is governed by the Georgia Board of Regents Georgia's workforce of more than 6.3 million is constantly refreshed by the growing number of people who move there along with the 90,000 graduates from the universities colleges and technical colleges across the state including the highly ranked University of Georgia Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University, Growing dissent The railroads invented the career path in the private sector for both blue-collar workers and white-collar workers Railroading became a lifetime career for young men; women were almost never hired a typical career path would see a young man hired at age 18 as a shop laborer be promoted to skilled mechanic at age 24 brakemen at 25 freight conductor at 27 and passenger conductor at age 57 White-collar careers paths likewise were delineated Educated young men started in clerical or statistical work and moved up to station agents or bureaucrats at the divisional or central headquarters at each level they had more and more knowledge experience and human capital They were very hard to replace and were virtually guaranteed permanent jobs and provided with insurance and medical care Hiring firing and wage rates were set not by foremen but by central administrators in order to minimize favoritism and personality conflicts Everything was done by the book whereby an increasingly complex set of rules dictated to everyone exactly what should be done in every circumstance and exactly what their rank and pay would be By the 1880s the career railroaders were retiring and pension systems were invented for them. In addition the presence of track guiding the wheels allows for very long trains to be pulled by one or a few engines and driven by a single operator even around curves which allows for economies of scale in both manpower and energy use; by contrast in road transport more than two articulations causes fishtailing and makes the vehicle unsafe, Athletics (44), Places with 25,000 to 49,999 inhabitants German InterCityExpress (ICE). 1 History Milwaukee Braves cap logo 73 2617, "Interestingly enough the city's greatest natural asset its lush vegetation and gently rolling topography which eighty years ago enabled Druid Hills to become one of the most beautiful Olmstedian garden suburbs in North America distinguishes Atlanta's highway architecture from suburban office complexes in other boom towns like Houston and Tampa.". Don't know Hispanic or Latino (of any race) 4.7% 1.9% 1.5% n/a J 85 2312 54/12 68/20 6 Athens Clarke 125,694 Georgia State Stadium was originally built for the 1996 Summer Olympics as Centennial Olympic Stadium Following the 1996 Summer Paralympics the Olympic Stadium was reconfigured as designed into the baseball-specific Turner Field serving as the home of the Atlanta Braves of Major League Baseball from 1997 until 2016 After the Braves' departure for SunTrust Park in Cobb County Georgia State University acquired Turner Field and its surrounding parking lots for a large scale expansion of the Georgia State campus which includes new private and student housing academic and retail space in addition to the stadium redevelopment. . !