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.
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Maggie Lee is a freelance reporter who's been covering Georgia and metro Atlanta government and politics since 2008.
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Atlanta City Council approves partially publicly financed Gulch redevelopment
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.
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Photo Pick: Bird biodiversity in East Lake by Luz Borrero
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 […]
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Poll: Metro Atlantans vexed by transportation, housing prices
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.
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Georgia nuclear plant vote gets day in court, brought by folks asking for more days in court
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.
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Interested in the possibilities for metro Atlanta transit? So is Advance Atlanta.
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.
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Morehouse’s medical mission takes it across the street, with groundbreaking for new campus
A chilly rain splattered on the construction machinery parked across the street from Morehouse School of Medicine, but Friday morning was bright for the folks gathered there for an official groundbreaking.
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Publicly financed Gulch deal teed up for Atlanta City Council consideration, again
Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms has sent a revised, and somewhat simpler proposal to City Council Council that still makes a big ask for future tax dollars to subsidize major new construction in the Gulch.
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Debate shows distance among gubernatorial candidates on Georgians and the law
The candidates who are running to replace outgoing Republican Gov. Nathan Deal are splitting on what’s probably the incumbent’s marquee policy: changes to the criminal justice system that have driven down the state’s prison population.
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Impatience growing for information on Renew Atlanta construction projects
As a $250 million Atlanta public program for road, bridge, sidewalk and public building works is going through a bit of a reset, there’s some impatience for information about what will — and won’t — get done.
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Atlanta fund to put “patient” capital to work for affordable housing near transit
In a city that’s building a lot of new transit but not a lot of new low-cost housing, a city agency is trying a new loan fund that would link one to the other.
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UPS leader David Abney talks about shipping in an age of some trade anxiety
In a world with a trade-warring U.S. president, Eurosceptics in Great Britain and a China trying to expand its trade footprint, UPS CEO David Abney talked about what’s on his mind as someone who oversees a global shipping and logistics company during a Q & A on Wednesday.
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Georgia ballot questions, explained
At the foot of your midterm ballot, there are going to be some referendum questions. Here’s what they mean.
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Promised Howell Mill overhaul may not happen
A bunch of proposed work on Howell Mill Road is up in the air as the city steps back from some public works pledges.
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A 10-minute walk to a park? Advocates say it should happen in Atlanta
It might be a stretch goal in a spread-out city like Atlanta, but parks advocates say that everyone should live within a 10-minutes walk of some nice green space.
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Multiple choice voting? Same day registration? Georgia candidates give mixed reviews of voting variation
What if every election day folks voted more than once — legally — ranking candidates from first to last? Or what if folks who weren’t registered at all showed up on Election Day and got a ballot?
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Critics rallying to “Redlight the Gulch;” call it a bad deal for Atlanta
But the crux of the anti-Gulch deal argument is that what the people get is nothing compared to what the developer gets.
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MARTA to seek its own lanes for streetcar expansion
In a car-loving city, MARTA planners are looking to get light rail its own lane as much as possible, as they plan a system across the city.
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Six months after Atlanta curtails cash bail, struggles for some defendants remain
Not all those nonviolent offenders who are now free from a bail bondsman have a home to go back to, or have the resources to deal with the mental illness or addiction that may be plaguing them.
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Think you don’t need a flu shot? Doctors preparing for pandemic beg to differ.
What would surprise people about the flu? The fact that it kills even young, healthy people who don’t have other risk factors, said Dr. Joe Bresee.
