Maria’s Metro

President Ceasar Mitchell reflects on Atlanta City Council role with Mayor Kasim Reed

From all outward signs, it appears as though there is a détente between the Atlanta Mayor City Kasim Reed and the Atlanta City Council.

“I want to acknowledge Ceasar Mitchell, president of the Atlanta City Council. Working with the Council, everything we accomplished in that video, we accomplished together,” Reed said at the breakfast. “They push back and they debate, and they are an essential part of the city.”
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Guest Columns

Urban agriculture movement — a healthy trend for Atlanta

By Guest Columnist SUSAN VARLAMOFF, director of the Office of Environmental Sciences at the University of Georgia

Social, health, economic and environmental factors now feed a grassroots movement to convert vacant lots across Atlanta into farms and community gardens.
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Chris Schroder – Moments

Ryan Gravel’s Moment wasn’t conceiving the BeltLine, it was when others embraced it

I thought BeltLine visionary Ryan Gravel would say his Moment was when he looked at a map of the city of Atlanta, saw the 1800s-era railroad tracks outlined and had an “ah-ha” moment. He says he’s often asked if the idea came to him all at once, but it actually marinated slowly, sparked during his senior year in college when he rode trains all over Paris and later when he returned to the traffic-clogged streets of metro Atlanta.
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Eleanor Ringel Cater

Eleanor’s ruminations on recent Oscar nominations

Oscar nominations are out and probably the only thing Oscar addicts enjoy as much as second-guessing the eventual winners is second-guessing who got nominated and who got snubbed.

Here are some random thoughts on last Tuesday’s naming names:

Best Picture

“The Artist” “The Descendants” “Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close” “The Help” “Hugo” “Midnight in Paris” “Moneyball” “The Tree of Life” “War Horse”

With the Best Picture category expanded to anywhere between 5 and 10, you’d think there wouldn’t be any snubs. And there weren’t…well, yeah there were.
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ABC Articles

Column: Georgia Research Alliance sees vast improvement

By Maria Saporta
Friday, January 20, 2012

The tide has turned for the Georgia Research Alliance.

A year ago, the public-private research and innovation organization was fighting for survival. Gov. Nathan Deal had proposed in his first budget, which had been put together by the administration of former Gov. Sonny Perdue, to slash GRA’s funding from nearly $17 million to $4.5 million.
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