Roads and freeways Media magnate Ted Turner purchased the team in 1976 and played a large role in the team's operation On October 2 2017 John Coppolella resigned as general manager of the Braves amid a Major League Baseball investigation into Atlanta's international signings having committed what the Braves termed "a breach of MLB rules regarding the international player market" on November 13 2017 the Braves announced Alex Anthopoulos as the new general manager and executive vice president John Hart was removed as team president and assumed a senior adviser role with the organization Braves chairman Terry McGuirk apologized to fans "on behalf of the entire Braves family" for the scandal McGuirk described Anthopoulos as "a man of integrity" and that "he will operate in a way that will make all of our Braves fans proud." on November 17 2017 the Braves announced that John Hart had stepped down as senior advisor for the organization Hart said in a statement that "with the hiring of Alex Anthopoulos as general manager this organization is in great hands."; . The Atlanta Motor Speedway hosts the Dixie 500 NASCAR Cup Series stock car race and Road Atlanta the Petit Le Mans endurance sports car race. Cycling The oldest of those research institutes is a nonprofit research organization referred to as the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) GTRI provides sponsored research in a variety of technical specialties including radar electro-optics and materials engineering Around forty percent (by award value) of Georgia Tech's research especially government-funded classified work is conducted through this counterpart organization GTRI employs over 1,700 people and had $305 million in revenue in fiscal year 2014 the other institutes include: the Parker H Petit Institute for Bioengineering & Bioscience the Georgia Tech Institute for Electronics and Nanotechnology the Georgia Tech Strategic Energy Institute the Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems the Georgia Tech Manufacturing Institute the Institute of Paper Science and Technology Institute for Materials and the Institute for People and Technology.
Stone Mountain Freeway or U.S 78 is an 8-mile corridor east of Downtown Atlanta and the neighboring suburb of Decatur it serves northeast portions of Dekalb County including the city of Stone Mountain it continues east as a divided highway into south Gwinnett County including the suburb of Snellville U.S 78 also stretches east to Athens. Georgia consists of 159 counties second only to Texas with 254 Georgia had 161 counties until the end of 1931 when Milton and Campbell were merged into the existing Fulton Some counties have been named for prominent figures in both American and Georgian history and many bear names with Native American origin Counties in Georgia have their own elected legislative branch usually called the Board of Commissioners which usually also has executive authority in the county Several counties have a sole Commissioner form of government with legislative and executive authority vested in a single person Georgia is the only state with current Sole Commissioner counties Georgia's Constitution provides all counties and cities with "home rule" authority the county commissions have considerable power to pass legislation within their county as a municipality would. ! The reverse side of the U.S State Quarter for Georgia. Douglas (462/sq mi) South Africa (84), The state of Georgia has approximately 250 tree species and 58 protected plants Georgia's native trees include red cedar a variety of pines oaks hollies cypress sweetgum scaly-bark and white hickories and sabal palmetto East Georgia is in the subtropical coniferous forest biome and conifer species as other broadleaf evergreen flora make up the majority of the southern and coastal regions Yellow jasmine and mountain laurel make up just a few of the flowering shrubs in the state, Mount Vernon Highway Whenever a vacancy occurs in the General Assembly an event that occurs whenever a member dies resigns or moves from the district from which he was elected it is filled according to Georgia law and the Constitution If the vacancy occurs anytime prior to the end of the legislative session in the second year of a term the governor must issue a writ of special election within ten days of the vacancy occurring and if the vacancy occurs after the end of the legislative session in the second year of a term then the governor may choose to issue a writ of special election But if the vacancy exists at the time that an extraordinary session is called then the governor must issue a writ of special election within 2 days after the call for the extraordinary session and if the vacancy occurs after the call but before the special session has concluded then the governor must issue a writ of special election within 5 days of the occurrence in each case the writ of special election must designate a day on which the election will be held which must be no less than 30 days and no more than 60 days after the governor issues the writ. Main article: Commuter rail in North America, 1890 1,837,353 19.1% Principal city Led by the Wright brothers Barnes and Spalding the Red Stockings dominated the National Association winning four of that league's five championships the team became one of the National League's charter franchises in 1876 sometimes called the "Red Caps" (as a new Cincinnati Red Stockings club was another charter member). .
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