Monthly Archives: August 2009

By Maria Saporta

This just in from architect and perservationist Laura DePree.

The Crum & Forster building in Midtown has just been granted Landmark status with Mayor Shirley Franklin’s signature. Last week, the Atlanta City Council unanimously supported giving the historic structure added protection, but it needed the mayor’s signature before it could receive that designation.

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By Maria Saporta

“It just ain’t so.”

That was Attorney General Thurbert Baker’s response to a couple of rumors making the rounds around town.

One rumor is that the Obama administration is considering Baker to fill the open judgeship on the 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, a prestigious nomination.

But if that were true, it would take Baker out of the race to be the Democratic Continue reading →

By Maria Saporta

Atlanta’s mayoral race has one less candidate.

In a fairly dramatic moment at the end of a mayoral forum Monday evening, candidate Duvwon Robinson removed his jacket and put on a Lisa Borders T-shirt, and then he announced he was withdrawing from the race and throwing his support behind the president of the Atlanta City Council. The two then hugged.

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Tom Johnson knows a thing or two about power and how to use it.

Before he became chief executive of the CNN News Group, Johnson had a multifaceted career in politics and journalism.

Back in the 1960s, President Lyndon Johnson, no relation, brought him on as a White House Fellow. He worked for the president in various positions, including as one of the administration’s press secretaries.
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By David Luse

Sir James Paul McCartney, the most successful songwriter according to the Guinness World Records, came to Piedmont Park for a fundraiser dedicated to expanding the park by 40 percent.

He is known mainly for his songs written with The Beatles rather than those composed through his side projects and solo work. He wrote songs such as “Yesterday,” the most covered song in history, deemed by some to be the greatest song of the 20th century. This song is listed as composed by Continue reading →

By Maria Saporta

Georgia Power President and CEO Mike Garrett painted a broad brush of business issues at a luncheon meeting of the Gwinnett Chamber earlier today.

From the economy to energy to water to economic development, Garrett shared his thoughts.

Because of his multiple roles, he is in a unique position to talk about all of them. He is chairman of the Georgia Chamber of Commerce. He is chairman of the Continue reading →

By Maria Saporta

The city of Atlanta continues to do what it can to save the Crum & Forster building at 771 Spring St. in Midtown.

On Monday, in a 14-0 vote, the Atlanta City Council voted to give the building a Landmark designation, which would give it greater protection from being demolished.

Preservationists and urban advocates have made the saving of the Crum & Forster building a cause celebre as soon Continue reading →