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Byline: John Perry ONLY IN THE AJC REASSESSING HISTORY There is something about standing in the place where a historical event occurred that gives it weight. This is why we [...]

Byline: Jeremy Redmon and John Perry Juan Carlos Lomas-Vital's company is scrambling to keep COVID-19 out of its Braselton chicken processing plant. Face masks -- plus face shields -- are [...]

The rising number of people in Britain living in poverty is the most important challenge facing the new Labour government which will decide the contents of the Queen's Speech on May 8, 1997. Priorities for the first term of a Labour government should include releasing capital receipts from council house sales and reviewing the treatment of asylum-seekers and of 16- and 17-year-olds with regard to social security benefits. Labour should not shirk from encouraging hospital closures and service rationalizations since concentrating clinical expertise in a smaller number of hospitals should improve quality of care.

Byline: John Perry For the polling geeks of the world, predicting a Barack Obama victory in the days before Tuesday's election was a no-brainer. But Emory political science professor Drew [...]

Byline: Alan Judd, Heather Vogell, John Perry SILVER SPRING, Md. --- Twelve miles from the White House, Highland Elementary epitomized the government's aspirations for public schools. Highland, it seemed, was [...]

Byline: Alan Judd, Heather Vogell, John Perry Blue Ribbons, red flags In choosing winners of the National Blue Ribbon Schools Award, the federal government places a great weight on rapid [...]

Byline: Alan Judd, Heather Vogell, John Perry This is the second in a series of stories about test-tampering across the nation. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution published the first installment March 25. [...]

Byline: Heather Vogell, John Perry, Alan Judd, M.B. Pell ***** CORRECTION: A story published on Sunday's front page about testing irregularities across the country overstated the increase in reading test [...]

One dimension -- left to right -- does not suffice to deal with today's political reality. Consider the current Republican field: Ron Paul, Rick Santorum, Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich. [...]

Byline: Jim Galloway, John Perry, Aaron Gould Sheinin, Kristina Torres Republicans in the state Capitol are about to put the finishing touches on a series of maps that are likely [...]

Byline: Ty Tagami, John Perry This spring, while state investigators were digging into suspicions about cheating on a 2009 statewide test at dozens of Atlanta public schools, an extraordinary thing [...]

Byline: Katie Leslie, John Perry The census is about more than just numbers. The numbers reflect ourselves and our times. Today, our team of experienced journalists digs deep to tell [...]

Byline: Craig Schneider, John Perry The census is about more than just numbers. In today's special report, our team of experienced journalists dig deep to take you beyond the data [...]

Byline: Leon Stafford, John Perry The traditional nuclear family --- the 1950s setup of husband, wife and kids --- is being eclipsed in the Atlanta region by every other type [...]

Byline: Jeremy Redmon, John Perry Opponents of legislation targeting illegal immigration in Georgia say the state will face costly court challenges if it passes the bills, just like Arizona has [...]

Byline: David Wickert, John Perry Tax appraisers in five metro Atlanta counties cut home valuations by $17.8 billion this year as they tried to catch up with the tumbling real [...]

Byline: Tim Eberly, John Perry For years, Georgia's method of registering voters allowed some non-U.S. citizens to register and some to cast ballots. And while state officials say they've fixed [...]

Byline: Cameron McWhirter, Bob Keefe, John Perry In an election season full of talk about tea party backlash and voter uncertainty, an old political truism holds: Big money bets safe. [...]

Byline: Heather Vogell, John Perry State test scores at metro schools suspected of the most widespread cheating last year dropped markedly this year, falling further in Atlanta than in other [...]

Byline: Jeremy Redmon, John Perry Massage and beauty schools, online universities and other for-profit colleges in Georgia and across the nation are cashing in on federal stimulus spending, collecting $2.2 [...]

Byline: D. Aileen Dodd, John Perry Under the state's new math curriculum, lower scores plus a quicker pace of instruction equal greater anxiety for both students and their teachers. 'In [...]

Byline: Jeremy Redmon, Ariel Hart, John Perry Downtown Atlanta's Spring Street bridge has deteriorated so much since its debut in 1923 that at some point workers added a steel 'safety [...]

Byline: Russell Grantham, John Perry Que Nice has been cutting hair in his barbershop across Peachtree Street from the Fulton County Government Center for 13 years. But lately, he fears [...]

Byline: Margaret Newkirk, John Perry, Heather Vogell Part 4 of 5 When the floodwaters finally receded in Austell, city leaders, the federal government and a giant rail yard in the [...]

Byline: Heather Vogell, John Perry, Margaret Newkirk Part 1 of 5 Explosive development, poor planning and neglected infrastructure have helped turn even unremarkable rainstorms into costly, property-wrecking events in metro [...]

Byline: John Perry An analysis of test results from 1,857 schools in city and county districts around the state identified three categories for further investigation or monitoring --- 20 percent [...]

Byline: Heather Vogell, John Perry One in five Georgia public schools faces accusations of tampering with student answers on last spring's state standardized tests, officials said Wednesday, throwing the state's [...]

Georgia's property tax system imploded with last year's historic real estate collapse. Across metro Atlanta, home values fell tens of thousands of dollars ? sometimes hundreds of thousands ? but [...]

The path to victory for Atlanta's next mayor is clear, even if the candidates don't want to say it. It's about race. If Tuesday top vote-getter Mary Norwood, a white [...]

Statistically unlikely state test scores are showing up in more classrooms, suggesting the cheating investigation that has engulfed four schools might be about to widen. An Atlanta Journal-Constitution investigation found [...]

The recession's victims increasingly look like you and your neighbors. Nearly 26,000 metro Atlanta families --- with two parents and at least one kid --- dropped below the poverty line [...]

As more Georgians are forced to seek health insurance on their own, many are learning painful lessons about the difference between the familiar employer-provided group coverage and the individual policies [...]

Four years ago, when subprime mortgage loans were hot commodities, investors enthusiastically bought pieces of a pool of 5,500 mortgages that covered $984 million in homeowner debt. At the time, [...]

Statehouse lobbying shows little sign of waning during the recession. Compared to the same period last year, spending on gifts and meals for elected officials was down only slightly during [...]

State universities and colleges in 2007 paid at least $869,000 to companies owned by Ford dealer Allan Vigil, who is one of 18 University System regents overseeing Georgia's universities and [...]

***** CORRECTION: 12/16/08, Page A/02: In a Sunday package of stories about unusual test scores at area elementary schools, an explanation of the statistical concept of standard deviation gave an [...]