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The Atlanta Urban League and the National Urban League’s “Restore Our Homes: Housing Rescue Fair and Career Job Fair” is going on today at the Marriott Marquis Hotel, 265 Peachtree Center Avenue, downtown on October 21st  from 2 pm to 8 pm.  The National Urban League is touring the country to bring valuable help to […]

More than 650,000 jobs are available as companies get ready for the upcoming holidays. Retail stores will need help in every area from sales to office work to customer service and shipping, even if it’s on a temporary basis.

With the Republican Party blocking every positive action that President Obama tries to take, plus the emergence of the ultra-conservative Tea Party (which many, including the NAACP, have accused of having racists in its movement), the midterm elections in November are extremely important. Locally, Georgia has a chance to elect its first Democratic governor in years in Roy Barnes, who is running against Republican Nathan Deal.

Hundreds of people have gotten sick from eating eggs contaminated with salmonella. Initially, 228 million eggs were recalled last week by the company, Wright County Egg of Galt, Iowa. Now that number has jumped to about 380 million eggs.

Starting at noon, local and national companies will be at the Gwinnett Center taking resumes and interviewing for two thousand positions. This is one of the biggest job fairs in the state of Georgia.

The first day of school can be an exciting, stressful and chaotic. Making check lists helps alleviate stress by helping to make you and your students are prepared. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends you taking these steps before the first day of school. Click here to find out what they are.

Bullies are more common in schools than expected. Whether your child is being bullied or bullying, parents should deal with the problem immediately. Click here for some tips on how to deal with bullying.

Summer is ending for more students around Georgia. Below are starting dates for school districts. Be sure to check with your school to be prepared for the first day.

Area schools are starting the new school year on different dates. Click here for a list of start dates and web site information to help you get ready.

Shirley Sherrod, who was forced to resign from her government job in Georgia based on incomplete and misleading reports of a speech she gave, has been offered a new job by Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack. But, she said Thursday she is “not so sure.”

Former Gov. Roy Barnes successfully completed the first step of his political redemption tour Tuesday, handily winning the Democratic nomination for his old job. Now Barnes can raise money and bide his time, waiting for Republican voters to decide in the Aug. 10 runoff whom he will face in November.

The wife of the white farmer allegedly discriminated against by the USDA’s rural development director for Georgia said Shirley Sherrod “kept us out of bankruptcy.” Eloise Spooner awoke Tuesday to discover that Sherrod had lost her job after videotaped comments she made at a local NAACP banquet surfaced on the web.