ATLANTA -- The owner of Manuel's Tavern in Virginia-Highland fought hard in 2005 when state officials were considering a ban on indoor smoking at restaurants.

Now, the watering hole established in 1956 is opting to go smoke-free.

Manuel's owner Brian Maloof and other business owners initially feared business would suffer if smoking was banned.

"We opposed it," Maloof told WABE. "I was down there myself speaking out against it -- an individual business rights to make a decision on their own. And the legislature came to that decision."

But there has been a shift in public opinion, Maloof said. Business is suffering because of Manuel's smoking policy, he added.

"I know definitely in January of 2014, we'll be 100 percent smoke-free," he said.

ATLANTA, Ga. -- We received an email from a Grant Park homeowner stating that she is impacted by the new Summerhill  initiative aimed at preventing Braves fans from parking in surrounding neighborhoods and forcing them to park in paid lots.

She shouldn't be impacted.

But here is where it gets interesting -- Karen Futch owns a home in Grant Park -- we'll let her explain.

"Across the street is Summerhill, where we stand now is Grant Park- -Grant Park does not have to pay any kind of parking permits but I do because I'm across the street from Summerhill

Jeff Hullinger replied,"You're in Grant Park- -you don't have to pay!

Karen added, "That's correct!."

While Karen Futch of Grant Park was at work two days ago,a sign goes up in front of her Connally Street home, a few blocks from Turner Field. It proclaims parking rules for the new Braves season, thus, impacting Karen and her neighbors

ATLANTA -- Metro Atlanta's unemployment rate declined to 8.3 percent in Februray.

That's down from 8.7 percent in January and well under the jobless rate of 9.3 percent from February a year ago.

Fulton County's unemployment rate was 8.9 percent in February.

The new numbers were released early Thursday by the Georgia Department of Labor.

Officials say the rate declined because the number of jobs increased and there were fewer new layoffs.

The number of jobs in metro Atlanta increased by 6,400, climbing to 2.37 million from 2.36 million in January.

Most of the growth was in professional and business services, and education and health care. Some seasonal jobs were lost in trade, transportation and warehousing.

The metro Atlanta unemployment data is not seasonally adjusted.