Last month, a Cobb Superior Court Judge ruled the county map was unconstitutional, and the state map must be used. Tuesday night, commissioners acquiesced and agreed to use the state map.

Jan. 26—Cobb's Board of Commissioners signed off Tuesday night on a land swap to remedy last year's zoning decision that sparked a firestorm of debate around the future of Dobbins Air Reserve Base.

For Cobb, the map is just the latest in a series of votes by the state Legislature made over the objections of local Democrats. County officials have asked Republican lawmakers to delay three ...

Cobb County did so in October in rebuke of Republican state lawmakers who passed a map drawing Commissioner Jerica Richardson, a Democrat, out of her district halfway through her elected term.