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Author Archives: Maggie Lee
Maggie Lee is a freelance reporter who's been covering Georgia and metro Atlanta government and politics since 2008.
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Atlanta Council votes for Reproductive Justice Commission
Atlanta City Council passed a resolution that says access to sexual and reproductive health care, including abortion, is a human right.
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Atlanta mayor names transportation department leader, publishes three-year plan
Atlanta’s mayor announced a new department, a new leader and a new plan to make it easier and safer to get around Atlanta.
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Fulton leader wants to open up economic development shop in India
By Maggie Lee Fulton’s top elected official says it’s time for the county to have a presence in India to help attract investments from the world’s second-most populous country. “People around the world know about Atlanta but they do not know about Fulton County,” said Fulton County Commission Chairman Robb Pitts in an interview on […]
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Fulton County considering taxes, gentrification, state funding ahead of legislative session
Fulton County looks likely to ask the state to give it the right to dig into the records of companies appeal commercial property tax assessments.
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Atlanta Public Schools leader offers some ideas about the future for the system
A fine arts school, maybe multi-year budgeting, and delegating power.
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Vote clears path between Zoo Atlanta and federal tax credits
By Maggie Lee and Maria Saporta The city-county authority that oversees Zoo Atlanta’s lease at Grant Park took a vote Thursday that puts an end to zoo management’s worries about possible delays to work on Savanna Hall. The building that formerly held the Cyclorama painting will overlook a new and expanded natural habitat for elephants […]
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Georgia governor proposes modest increase in Medicaid spending; critics say it’s not near enough
For Kemp’s team, it’s ideally a short-term assist that would boost folks into the kind of jobs that come with health care benefits. For critics, it’s a plan that leaves too many people out.
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A group that fought to close Atlanta’s jail makes a case for keeping it — as something different
A city that thinks of itself as world-class needs to think out of the box, Bennett said. It could blossom, it could come up with new rules. Like turning its jail into this kind of center.
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Gov. Kemp proposing Georgia-style insurance market
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp is asking the federal government to endorse and send money for a plan to make individual health insurance cheaper.
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Deja vu at the Gulch: Judge rules for tax subsidy procedure, opponents plan appeal
A Fulton County judge says Atlanta followed the rules when a split City Council OK’d bond-backed public subsidies for a proposed private remake of Downtown’s Gulch. Opponents will ask a higher court’s opinion, in a dispute that’s gone on for almost a year.
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Farokhi calls for Atlanta Reproductive Justice Commission
Atlanta City Councilman Amir Farokhi wants the city to set up a three-year Reproductive Justice Commission, which, among other things, would aim to increase awareness around access to reproductive health care.
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New state school scores illustrate the gaps in Atlanta student achievement
Atlanta as a school system looks pretty good on a new state report card — it made gains since the last report, while the state overall declined. But as anybody will tell you, that single city score hides gaps among schools.
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Fort Mac and the city at odds over millions of dollars
Over years, the city of Atlanta has spent millions of dollars to help keep the doors open at the agency that’s overseeing the redevelopment of 144 acres of Fort McPherson. But now that Fort Mac has some cash to pay back loans, the two sides don’t agree on the amount owed.
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Georgia lawmakers hearing about affordable housing shortfall statewide
In some parts of the state, even a “pretty good job” won’t get you on the property ladder or in a convenient apartment. It seems like a chance for Democrats and Republicans, rural and urban, to get together on some policy.
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Fort Mac to buy out would-be developer, search for a new one
A top leader at Fort McPherson says he thinks redevelopment work on 144 acres at the shuttered base can start in 2020. But first, there’s the big job of finding a developer.
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Daily, weekly fines would be OK for some “problem properties,” say some on Atlanta City Council
“I’m OK with them having to pay $500 every single week, whatever it takes.”
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Metro Atlanta to grow by about one Denver in about 30 years
“It always just kind of boggles my mind to think about the Atlanta region having more than over a million people who are 75 years and older…”
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Georgia voters just got more likely to get a say on any sports betting law
A new legal opinion suggests that if sports gambling supporters in the state Legislature want an airtight law, they better first ask Georgia voters and change the Georgia Constitution.
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Fulton plans to publish data on criminal justice system — soon
Everybody talking about criminal justice in Fulton should find something of interest soon — that is, when the county starts publishing new, detailed statistics on courts.
