Athens News Matters: Mariah Parker

WUGA | By Chris Shupe

Published April 30, 2021 at 2:12 PM EDT

ACC Commissioner Marish Parker on the county’s budget, social justice, her reaction to the verdict in the murder trial of George Floyd, and a seeming explosion in police shootings.

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