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Rivian, a recently gone public electric vehicle company supported by the Biden administration and in which Leftist Billionaire George Soros recently invested a huge sum of money is trying to drop a massive car manufacturing plant in the middle of a retired community east of Atlanta. Citizens are angry at Governor Kemp and other politicians who are attempting to fast-track this project in total disregard of the rights of local citizens. To fully explain all that’s wrong with this Rivian auto plant "deal" — and the likely motives of Kemp and his cronies for supporting it — will require 2...

Sprawl wasn't always a dirty word. In the post-World War II period, the suburbs were considered the best of all worlds. They offered people the option of living close to the jobs and entertainment of the cities, while still owning a large house, on a quiet, clean street, with few neighbours, surrounded by green space. As incomes rose and car manufacturers produced affordable models, more people discovered the joys of driving in their own car, instead of waiting for a crowded bus. But the rosy glow of sprawling suburban life has been gone for quite a while. The more common...

<p>For five years, Molly Turkewitz has waged war against deer in her Montgomery County neighborhood.</p> <p>The Brookeville teaching assistant has planted strong-smelling deodorant soap in trees and laced the soil with human hair and blood-meal fertilizer. She has shrouded shrubs in nylon netting and swathed tree trunks with sheets of plastic. But nothing has chased the deer from her back yard, where they have nibbled the bushes into poodle-size topiary.</p> <p>"When we moved in, I loved deer," said Turkewitz, 46. "I do not feel that way anymore."</p>

Civil War battle site endangered Given the rapid suburbanization of America in the past few years, we probably should be grateful that there are any historic sites left. Sprawling urban growth, though, has become a serious threat to some of the historic places crowded along the Eastern seaboard, particularly Civil War battlefields. The Manassas battlefield, site of two great Confederate victories, survived after preservationists and historians rallied to its protection. The defense of the battlefield, given the political clout of the development community, was -- no pun intended -- heroic. Now, another historic battlefield is in danger. A company seeks...