Republican Gov.-elect Brian Kemp said it’s time to “put politics behind us,” addressing a group of mainly lawmakers and lobbyists, in a bit of an opening speech ahead of his first legislative session as governor.
Atlanta’s schools, plus a separate set of activists, have filed court challenges to a controversial city plan to subsidize a huge private construction project in the Gulch.
Atlanta’s got a new Southside community and economic development manager. Erika Smith says she’s looking at things for the Southside from destination dining to helping out mom-and-pop small businesses.
Atlanta Public Schools are asserting a right to get out of a deal that will see state and local governments forego something nearing maybe $2 billion in taxes through 2038 to subsidize a new development in the Gulch.
A set of quicker transit routes are set to come through Clayton County as MARTA’s board formally approves a rail line on the south end of its network plus bus rapid transit for other parts of the county.
Atlanta’s development agency on Tuesday approved a deal that would make a move to Atlanta nearly $24 million sweeter for Norfolk Southern.
Atlanta City Council approved a transportation plan that involves a “re-alignment” of the city away from cars. Advocates reminded Council about previous plans to fix up the city for pedestrians, cyclists and public transit customers.
Atlanta’s west side district 3 will send a new representative to City Council in a March special election. Matthew Cardinale is making a run for it.
“The whole idea of being county-specific is obsolete,” said Michael Thurmond, a board member of the new state-created transit authority that covers 13 counties, several transit operators and something around five million Georgians.
It’s no secret Atlanta is a blue dot in a red sea, but a quick look at a map shows why changing the size of that dot just a little bit can swing elections.
There are only two statewide races on the Dec. 4 runoff ballot, but the election schedule is tighter than it was for the long general election.
“This is more than a program recovery effort, this is an exercise of building and maintaining public trust…”
The contest among more than a dozen cities in the U.S. and Canada to host Amazon’s second headquarters is over and Atlanta didn’t win. But the list of incentives the state offered — and the list of restaurants where they took Amazon — became a public document upon the loss.
The day after Election Day, an email arrived in my inbox. Entitled “Victory Breakfast,” it came from the Gwinnett Democrats. Things have changed, but not everything has changed.
Three days after Atlanta City Council approved public financing for a developer planning a huge rebuild in the Gulch, the city’s economic development authority ratified financial and development deals to advance the project.
Atlanta City Council has OK’d a deal that will let a developer tap something approaching $2 billion in tax money that will be collected in the Gulch over decades to build up the Gulch itself.
Hidden just a little bit out of sight in East Lake, is a place where residents share space with birds and other wildlife. East Lake Commons is a cohousing community. That means the folks there live in private homes, but cluster around shared space and collaboratively plan and manage community activities. East Lake’s founding residents and […]
Metro Atlanta is still fed up with traffic and folks in parts of it are pretty willing to pay more for expanded transit, according to the latest edition of a long-running regional survey. Also, pretty much everyone everywhere thinks they’re paying too much for housing.
A judge is deciding what future there may be in a court case over how state regulators acted when they voted to continue the life of a late, over-budget nuclear power plant expansion.
With official interest growing in transit for metro Atlanta, a nonprofit says it’s an important time to make sure young workers across the region say what they want and get involved in decision-making.
MARTA preparing to post ads targeting Super Bowl fans at Five Points StationDecember 13, 2018 - 1:21 pm
Center for Civic Innovation reports progress on review of Atlanta’s NPU systemDecember 11, 2018 - 6:19 pm
Atlanta may expand drug-free commercial zones after easing marijuana penaltiesDecember 10, 2018 - 5:04 pm
