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	<description>Maria Saporta is a longtime Atlanta business, civic and urban affairs journalist with a deep knowledge of our city, our region and state.</description>
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		<title>Georgia Rep. Stephanie Benfield to become GreenLaw&#8217;s executive director</title>
		<link>http://saportareport.com/blog/2012/02/georgia-rep-stephanie-benfield-to-become-greenlaws-executive-director/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 22:30:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maria Saporta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Maria Saporta

The environmentally-focused law firm — GreenLaw — has hired a new executive director.

Stephanie Stuckey Benfield, a DeKalb representative of Georgia General Assembly since 1999, will become GreenLaw’s executive on April 9.

The news was announced in an email to GreenLaw’s friends Wednesday by Greg Presmanes, who is chairman of GreenLaw’s board.

“I am so excited that Stephanie will be leading our team forward into its third decade of giving Georgia’s environment its day in court,” Presmanes said.
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		<title>Column: CEO Polk puts new mark on Newell Rubbermaid</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 12:34:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maria Saporta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Maria Saporta
Friday, February 17, 2012

Michael Polk has been president and CEO of Newell Rubbermaid Inc. only since July, but already he is putting his mark on the Atlanta-based company.

Newell Rubbermaid invited up to 250 of its top executives from around the world for its annual convention to Atlanta during the week of Feb. 13 to Feb. 16. But instead of going to a golf resort, Polk decided to spend their first “team-building” day volunteering at the Carrie Steele-Pitts Home for abused and abandoned children.
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		<title>Future of Gwinnett County’s airport an issue for Gwinnett to resolve, GDOT official says</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 22:44:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Pendered</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The proposed privatization of Gwinnett County’s airport is a local matter in which the state won’t intervene, according to the state official who oversees aviation for the state Department of Transportation.

Gwinnett residents and leaders have wrestled for years with the question of what to do with Briscoe Field, located along Ga. 316 about two miles northeast of Lawrenceville. At the heart of the issue is a debate over whether to allow commercial passenger service – and the impact that would have on neighborhoods near the airport.

Speaking Tuesday to the Rotary Club of Gwinnett County, Carol Comer said the state has no role in deciding or recommending the future of the airport. Comer directs GDOT’s Intermodal Division, which oversees systems including aviation, transit, rail, ports and waterways.
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		<title>Veronica Biggins inducted into Atlanta Business League&#8217;s Women Hall of Fame</title>
		<link>http://saportareport.com/blog/2012/02/veronica-biggins-inducted-into-atlanta-business-leagues-women-hall-of-fame/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 20:14:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maria Saporta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Maria Saporta

One of Atlanta’s grand dames — Veronica Biggins — was inducted Tuesday morning into the Atlanta Business League’s Women of Vision Hall of Fame.

The Women of Vision breakfast honored 100 African-American women from Atlanta, but it Biggins who received the top award for her decades of involvement in local business community.

Biggins described her career as having had three different chapters.
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		<title>GDOT report: Transportation sales tax won’t begin to fix state’s freight systems</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 22:37:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Pendered</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It turns out that more than $18 billion really doesn’t go as far as it used to.

That’s the amount to be raised within the next decade if voters in July approve the 1 percent sales tax for transportation in each of Georgia’s 12 special tax districts. Even that amount didn’t provide for the majority of road, transit and airport projects initially proposed.

Nor does the sum begin to make a dent in the $18 billion to $20 billion list of upgrades that must be made to the state’s freight handling systems – its highways, railroads, Savannah seaport and airports in Atlanta and Albany, according to a new report from the Georgia Department of Transportation.
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		<title>Evelyn Wynn-Dixon&#8217;s Moment was a vision others had for a life she&#8217;s living</title>
		<link>http://saportareport.com/blog/2012/02/evelyn-wynn-dixons-moment-was-a-vision-others-had-for-a-life-shes-living/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 19:53:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Schroder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I watch Dr. Evelyn Wynn-Dixon glide into her stride, telling her life story, I try to brush away a nagging premonition that we might soon see her firing up a Monday night crowd at a national political convention – but then again, other people’s premonitions is how she ended up in the mayor’s chair of Riverdale, Georgia.


Evelyn was driven to find a way out of her situation for both her and her children and serves now as an inspiration to her seven grandchildren and others who meet her.
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		<title>Logic of GOP campaign shorts Georgia voters</title>
		<link>http://saportareport.com/blog/2012/02/gop-primary-math-shorts-georgia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 18:35:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Baxter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Under the rules which award states for recent Republican performance, Michigan, which holds its Republican presidential primary on Feb. 28, will seat 30 delegates when the GOP holds its national convention in Tampa this August, fewer than Alabama or Mississippi. Arizona, which votes the same day, will seat 29.

The following week, Georgia, with 76 delegates, is the biggest prize on the Super Tuesday, when 10 states with a combined 437 delegates make their choices.

Based solely on the numbers, one might think this would put Georgia in the national political spotlight. Instead, Georgia Republicans who’ve seen their kindred in other states whoop and holler through a score of debates, will have nothing more exciting to watch Monday night than Colbert’s return. The next televised debate will be Wednesday in Arizona, and Michigan appears to be getting the lion’s share of Super PAC ads.
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		<title>Jimmy Carter, Jason Carter inspired by matriarchs and family values</title>
		<link>http://saportareport.com/blog/2012/02/jimmy-carter-jason-carter-inspiration/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 12:30:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle Hiskey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The two men, connected by a last name and DNA, separated by two generations and different dreams, together reflected on the forces that have driven their family.

Driven Jimmy Carter past national vilification for his presidential failures, driven him into the humanitarian work that has changed the world, and driven his grandson to appreciate the example set by the older generations – especially the women behind the men.
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		<title>Atlanta seeks voter support to continue investing in its water and sewer infrastructure</title>
		<link>http://saportareport.com/blog/2012/02/atlanta-seeks-voter-support-to-continue-investing-in-its-water-and-sewer-systems/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 07:08:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maria Saporta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Residents of the City of Atlanta soon will be asked to pass a penny sales tax to improve the its infrastructure.

Unlike the publicity surrounding the regional transportation sales tax referendum to be held in July, a referendum to continue investing in the city’s water and sewer infrastructure only now is getting limited attention — and the vote is only days away — on March 6.

But don’t interpret the low-key campaign effort as a lack of enthusiasm for MOST — the Municipal Option Sales Tax.
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		<title>Ga. 400 right-of-way to become linear park through Buckhead, following city approval</title>
		<link>http://saportareport.com/blog/2012/02/ga-400-right-of-way-to-become-linear-park-through-buckhead-if-city-approves/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 05:37:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Pendered</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The effort to provide more green space in Buckhead received a lift Monday from the Atlanta City Council.

The idea is to establish a linear park in the right-of-way beneath and alongside the actual freeway corridor of Ga. 400, from North Buckhead to near MARTA’s Lindbergh Station. This planned trail is to be linked at some time in the future with other green space that backers hope to assemble with help from a host of public/private partners in Buckhead.

It’s all part of an effort that kicked off in October 2010 to provide more public space in park-starved Buckhead. The Buckhead area has the fewest acres of parkland of the 12 city council districts, according to a recent study.
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