By Guest Columnist DARAKA E. SATCHER, partner and chief operating officer of the Pendleton Group consulting firm Most of us have seen the news by now. A number of major tech firms recently reported dismally low diversity numbers. ...

By Guest Columnist DANA RICKMAN, director of policy and research for the Georgia Partnership for Excellence in Education On July 22 there is a primary run-off election in Georgia. One of the statewide offices voters can cast a ...

By Guest Columnist STEPHANIE DAVIS, recently retired (or as she says ‘rewired and re-inspired’) executive director of Georgia Women for a Change To everyone who wonders how a feminist can survive—and thrive—in this state, how she ...

By Guest Columnist JENNIFER PRIESTLEY, professor of applied statistics and data science, and director of the Center for Statistics and Analytical Services, at Kennesaw State University Big Data has created a big employment problem for metro Atlanta – ...

By Guest Columnist JAY HAKES, director of the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library from 2000 to 2013 Atlanta can boast of a special relationship with the Nobel Peace Prize. For starters, the medals for civil rights leader ...

By Guest Columnist JON McCULLOUGH, executive director of BlazeSports America Atlanta’s Olympic legacy has not just been about buildings and landmarks but it’s also been about the longstanding impact it has set in motion. In discussing the merits of ...

By Guest Columnist TRACY HOOVER, president of the Atlanta-based Points of Light, the largest organization in the world dedicated to volunteer service. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. famously said, “Everybody can be great because anybody can serve.” In a ...

By Guest Columnist TERRY LAWLER, executive director of the Regional Business Coalition of Metropolitan Atlanta The Regional Business Coalition of Metropolitan Atlanta, in conjunction with the Georgia Association of Water Professionals and the Council for Quality ...

By Guest Columnist CHARLIE BATTLE, an attorney who was one of the original nine people who helped Atlanta win the Olympic bid by building friendships with members of the International Olympic Committee In a recent column, ...

By Guest Columnist BRYAN K. ALEXANDER, former manager of Georgia’s Recreational Trails Program Seeing this state through the lens of the Recreational Trails Program, as I did for eight years, showed me that Georgia is getting ...

By Guest Columnist ALLEN MOYE, a lifelong resident of DeKalb County who recently retired as a prosecutor for the U.S. Attorney’s office and the Fulton County District Attorney’s office The Georgia General Assembly has gone home. We have ...

By Guest Columnist RICHARD T. GRIFFITHS, vice president and senior editorial director of CNN as well as a member of the Emory Journalism Program Advisory Board Note to readers: Richard Griffiths delivered these remarks on April 25 at ...

By Guest Columnist STEVEN D. CALEY, senior attorney at GreenLaw, a Georgia-based nonprofit law firm serving environmental and community organizations interested in protecting the state’s natural beauty Gov. Nathan Deal’s Environmental Protection Division gave an ironic present to ...

By Guest Columnist THOMAS WALSH, ASLA, a founding principal of Atlanta-based TSW, a planning, architecture and landscape architecture firm For decades, Atlanta has been defined by its sprawl – and perhaps no communities have felt the effects of ...

By Guest Columnist W. STELL HUIE, a retired Atlanta attorney who served as MARTA’s first general counsel Background information for readers: MARTA was formed by an act of the Georgia General Assembly in 1965 and was originally proposed ...

Guest Columnist BRUCE GUNTER, president of Progressive Redevelopment Inc., an affordable housing developer that has been divesting itself of its assets Atlanta is getting its mojo back….and at an accelerating pace. Cranes are returning to our skyline, a ...

By Guest Columnist HEATHER ALHADEFF, president of Center Forward, a land-use and transportation consulting business The reaction to Maria Saporta’s recent streetcar/BeltLine articles produced an unusually hot-tempered string of comments.  From my perspective as a transportation planner, what seems to ...

By Guest Columnist HEATHER ALHADEFF, president of Center Forward, a land-use and transportation consulting business The reaction to Maria Saporta’s recent streetcar/BeltLine articles produced an unusually hot-tempered string of comments.  From my perspective as a transportation planner, what ...

By Guest Columnist DANA RICKMAN, director of policy and research for the Georgia Partnership for Excellence in Education Nearing the end of the 2014 legislative session, Georgia’s House Education Committee voted down Senate Bill (SB) 167, the anti-Common ...

By Guest Columnist PAM TATUM, executive director of Quality Care for Children Upward mobility is not as elusive as it is sometimes presented. In fact it is no more elusive than good public policy and wise ...