By Guest Columnist VALARIE WILSON, board chair of Decatur City Schools and executive director of the BeltLine Partnership From tea parties to the tone of the President Barack Obama’s recent State of the Union address, populism ...

By Guest Columnist MIKE “STINGER” GLENN, former Atlanta Hawks basketball player, broadcaster, book collector and lover of history. My love of books began with my mother, Annye Wilkes Glenn, my first and best teacher. Mom first ...

By Guest Columnist JOE BEASLEY, director of human services at Atlanta’s Antioch Baptist Church North PORT-AU-PRINCE -- The stars in heaven over Haiti this week remind me of the strength of hope I have for the ...

By Guest Columnist DENNIS CREECH, executive director of the Southface Energy Institute Did you know that Georgia leads the nation in green affordable housing? Just last week, Global Green USA released its fifth green building rating summary ...

By Guest Columnist DICK ANDERSON, director of the Georgia Regional Transportation Authority (This column is in response to last week’s Maria’s Metro Column: “If we can’t do it right, maybe we should put the brakes on ...

By Guest Columnist ARNIE SILVERMAN, owner of Silverman Construction Program Management. Parks promote. Parks transform. Parks stimulate. Parks sell. You can see it in Centennial Olympic Park, which transformed a dangerous and derelict part ...

By Guest Columnist GEORGE DUSENBURY, executive director of Park Pride Parks are the best of Atlanta; they are the worst of Atlanta. They are the foundations of community; they are the foundations of crime. They are ...

By Guest Columnist E. FRED YALOURIS, director of design for Atlanta BeltLine Inc. I am often asked about my decision to move to Atlanta without a car, and, if there is time, I ...

By Guest Columnist LYNNETTE YOUNG, CEO and executive director of Sustainable Atlanta For the last 18 months, Sustainable Atlanta has engaged leaders and experts from Atlanta’s academic, business, governmental sectors and non-profits to work on ...

By Guest Columnist LAURA HEERY PROZES, AIA, executive co-chair of the Congress for the New Urbanism 18 The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have tracked a virulent virus, spreading since the 1950’s, crossing borders and ...

By Guest Columnist State Sen. DOUG STONER (D-Cobb) In little over a month, my fellow legislators and I will be returning to Atlanta to begin a new session under the Gold Dome. This will be ...

By Guest Columnist HATTIE DORSEY, president of HBDorsey & Associates and former president of Atlanta Neighborhood Development Partnership (ANDP). The AJC wrote an article last week about the “disaffected voters” – those who seem to believe ...

By Guest Columnist BRUCE GUNTER, founder and president of Progressive Redevelopment Inc. Lost in the understandable focus on the meltdown in the single-family housing market is the everyday truth that Atlanta has a galling lack of ...

By Guest Columnist MICHAEL WALLS, chairman of MARTA’s board of directors For more than three decades, metro Atlanta has awakened every morning secure in the knowledge that MARTA trains, buses and para-transit vehicles were up ...

By Guest Columnist MIKE KLEIN, former CNN & Georgia Public Broadcasting executive whose online column is written at www.mikekleinonline.com. This past Sunday morning we jumped into the minivan and took off down the road toward one ...

By Guest Columnist ANNE OSTHOLTHOFF, founder and CEO of ArtsNOW/Creating Pride. We want our young people to think critically, creatively and demonstrate an ability to solve problems and communicate effectively in today’s workplace. To achieve ...

By Guest Columnist SPENCE ROSENFELD, founder and president of Arborguard Tree Specialists Maybe I was particularly vulnerable to the irresistable nature of trees. From a very young age I just had to climb them. Later ...

By Guest Columnist JOHN AHMANN, executive director of the Atlanta Committee for Progress and owner of a public policy communications firm. With the transition of the City of Atlanta’s Mayor and City Council just around the ...

By Guest Columnist MADELYN R. ADAMS, executive director of the East Lake Foundation This week, golf fans all over the nation will focus their attention on Atlanta. Our own East Lake Golf Club will once again ...

By Guest Columnist AUDREY PETERMAN, president and co-founder of Earthwise Productions Inc., a consulting and publishing company. For 13 years, Audrey and her husband, Frank, have published the travel and environmental periodical: “Pickup & Go.” “There ...