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Gridlock

Debbie Dooley, co-founder of the Atlanta Tea Party, sets out signs and waits for returns where T-SPLOST opposition groups gather for a election night watch at Hudson Grille in Atlanta on Tuesday, July 31, 2012. Gov. Nathan Deal and Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed are making an 11th-hour push to Georgia voters to approve the transportation tax referendum on Tuesday's primary ballot. Critics blast the plan _ the first statewide referendum in Georgia history _ as not only the heftiest tax proposal in state history, but as a false strategy that they say addresses neither sprawl nor smart growth. (AP Photo/Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Curtis Compton)

Atlanta region shoots down transportation tax

Errin Haines, Associated Press
ATLANTA (AP) - Now that a proposed penny sales tax to fund billions in transportation projects in metro Atlanta has failed, solutions to easing gridlock in the South's economic engine are further away than ever...
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