ATLANTA – While 2023 wasn’t an election year in Georgia, politics was front and center throughout the last 12 months.
From January street protests of the proposed Atlanta Police Training Center derided by critics as “Cop City” to the General Assembly redrawing Georgia’s congressional and legislative maps in December under a federal court order, various forms of politics were playing out during the year.
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