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The Brief from WABE by Alex Helmick

Aug 26, 20269:55News & Politics

Public pushback as Atlanta's City Council considers privatizing baggage screening at Hartsfield-Jackson; one of the state's most contaminated sites isn't so nasty now; and getting into the Guinness Book of World Records...

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