The longtime leader of Atlanta’s housing authority says she hopes City Hall will try and lean on her old employer in a long legal fight about money and reputation.
Fulton County is going to set up 10 sites to collect air samples near a Fulton Industrial medical sterilization facility that emits ethylene oxide, a cancer-causing gas.
It takes time and talks are happening quietly, said the leader of the Atlanta Botanical Garden.
New pollution controls are coming to a facility at the west edge of Fulton County that emits the carcinogenic gas ethylene oxide.
Fire has damaged Furber Cottage, a boarded-up 1899 building that started life as a dormitory at what was then Atlanta University.
U.S. attorneys general including Georgia’s Chris Carr are asking whether Google has crossed the line from aggressive business practices into illegal, monopolistic ones. It’s not the first time AGs have banded together to investigate a company.
With almost 4 million votes cast, Team Abrams in 2018 demonstrated how many Georgia voters can turn up to vote Democrat, for the right candidate with the right ground game. The Democratic Party of Georgia is taking some things away from that example.
The board of Atlanta Public Schools will not renew its contract with Superintendent Meria Carstarphen.
The close connection among agencies is the latest example of the state of Georgia trying to address cross-county metro Atlanta traffic snarls by means other more untolled car lanes.
When it comes to gaming, the odds are always in the house’s favor — so when the government taxes the house, it’s a win for the government. But wrangling over the not-yet-existent spoils will lower the odds against any gaming bill passing in Georgia next year.
Atlanta City Council OK’d the sale of about $700 million in bonds this week on behalf of the airport, and the market considers the airport just about as safe as U.S. Treasury bonds. But members of Atlanta City Council had some questions about when the bond information was put together and who did it.
Hotels in Buckhead and Old Fourth Ward are on track for property tax discounts worth millions, but they divided the members of Fulton County’s economic development board.
An announcement from Fort Mac in June was clear: the agency was making a $17 million building sale. Federal scientists and staff would move into a disused command building.
That sale has just now gotten the 10-1 approval, with one abstention, of the board of the McPherson Implementing Local Redevelopment Authority.
But the board still has yet to take any action on the question of a developer who has in sight the bulk of the roughly 144 acres of the former fort.
The state says a Fulton Industrial-area company has shown interest in expanding its business of sterilizing medical supplies. But the company uses ethylene oxide, the same toxic gas that’s got people in Smyrna and other places demanding the shutdown of similar facilities.
At public appearances, Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms regularly celebrates the city’s moves to close the city jail and get rid of cash bail, but one member of City Council is using the word “failure” for how bail waivers are being implemented.
It’s “changing lives one by one, we’re at-promise, not at-risk. And that’s a great thing,” T.J. Jones said.
A total 96 students this fall are going to join a new Atlanta Technical College program backed by some of the city’s biggest employers. And if the school’s statistics hold, graduates will be in great professional demand soon.
About a year before Georgia State-wide Business Court starts accepting cases, members of the state House and Senate have confirmed Walter Davis as its first judge.
The people who are supposed to set the taxable value of Fulton’s buildings are “outgunned” by commercial property owners and hired experts, says a county commissioner.
Reuben Brooks, previously a U.S. Department of House and Urban Development leader in the southeast, is joining the BeltLine as COO.
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