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...Atlanta’s Fulton and DeKalb counties are also home to soaring numbers of entrepreneurs....
...While I am in Kentucky asking why people have soured on journalists, I get an email from an FT subscriber from DeKalb, Illinois....
...It is also one of only three early voting sites in the county – including the first time Sunday voting has been allowed in Georgia....
...On Friday S&P stressed its March 29 five-notch downgrade of the GO and appropriation-backed debts of DeKalb County, Georgia was “not the canary in the coal mine, but more the anomaly”....
...DeKalb does have particular characteristics. An area of the county was incorporated as its own city in 2008, a move that further drained tax revenue from county coffers....
...Dekalb county in Alabama was hit by a particularly devastating tornado, killing at least 30 people. Also hard hit was Jefferson county, which is already facing bankruptcy....
...The contrast is apparent in DeKalb county, Illinois, a corn-growing powerhouse 60 miles from Chicago....
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