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Lots of businesses are unsure what changes mandated in the Affordable Care Act will mean to their bottom line. 

Answering those questions was at the heart of a health care conference put on Wednesday by the Georgia Chamber.

Marilyn Tavenner, head of the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, gave the keynote address.

She told the few hundred attendees at the Georgia Tech Conference Center she avoids calling the law by name.

It could be another week before Fulton Superior Court Judge Jerry Baxter rules on a motion that the 35 indicted Atlanta educators were compelled to make statements in the state’s cheating investigation.

These are the statements which the Fulton County District Attorney’s office plans to use in the criminal case.

Tuesday Judge Baxter indicated he was leaning toward ruling in favor of the defendants.

What it comes down to is whether or not the statements made by the educators fall under the 1967 Supreme Court ruling based on the case Garrity vs. New Jersey.

According to a new survey, customers are more satisfied with the airline industry for the second year in a row. That includes Delta Air Lines. The Atlanta-based air carrier received its highest score on the American Customer Satisfaction index since 1999.

Congressman John Lewis is named the keynote speaker at the Eighth Annual AJC Decatur Book Festival.

His new book is called "March."

"It's the first in a series of three.  And it is a graphical description of his lifelong struggle for civil and human rights," says Philip Rafshoon, the festival's program director.

The festival is set for August 30 through September 1.   

Girl with a Pearl Earring is among the most famous works housed in The Netherlands’ Mauritshuis, a 17th-century art museum in The Hague. Johannes Vermeer’s portrait has intrigued audiences for centuries and the Girl is paying Atlanta a visit, along with some of her friends.

The High Museum opens their exhibit Girl with a Pearl Earring: Dutch Paintings from the Mauritshuis this week and WABE’s Lois Reitzes spoke with the Maritshuis’ director Emilie Gordenker and with High Museum Director Michael Shapiro about how the exhibit came to Atlanta.

Animal activists are still waiting on final word from DeKalb County on the location of a new animal shelter. After weeks of delay, residents are frustrated and concerned about the shelter being built on one of the proposed sites.

Two weeks ago, DeKalb County CEO Burrell Ellis was set to recommend a site for a new shelter.

Instead, three sites were proposed, and the final recommendation was supposed to come Tuesday at the county commission meeting. But the county presented further evaluations.

A second suspended member of the DeKalb County school board appeared in court Tuesday in an attempt to reclaim her seat. Of the six suspended members, Sarah Copelin-Wood served on the board the longest.  

Copelin-Wood testified she performed her board duties well. But when asked by her  attorney, Jarred Wilson, why she was suspended, her reply didn’t seem to make sense.

On Tuesday, June 25th, the Balzer Theater at Herren's and others will commemorate the voluntary  desegregation fifty years ago of Herren's restaurant--the first in Atlanta to do so.  

Join host Lois Reitzes as she speaks with WABE contributor David Lee Simmons about the following:

Hank Williams Jr. and Gregg Allman

Miranda Sings Live!

Yin Yang

In this Atlanta Sounds audio slideshow we meet Bo Bradshaw.  He’s been collecting tractors since the 1990’s.
While modern tractors have electric starters, Bradshaw’s 1938 AW John Deere tractor has no key, but requires a hand crank to start.  Bradshaw grew up in a small town in Indiana, where his love of tractors originated. Today he is a resident of Inman Park where you can sometimes find him giving hay rides.

Today the Southern Christian Leadership Conference denounced what it says is a legal attack on Representative Tyrone Brooks. Brooks was recently charged in a 30-count federal grand jury indictment. The indictment alleges Brooks misused nearly $1 million dollars from a charity he founded in 1990 and the Georgia Association of Black Elected Officials.

Southern Christian Leadership Conference CEO and President Emeritus Charles Steele did not want to get into specifics about the charges against Brooks.

“I’m not here to be the judge nor the jury.”