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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 City Council President Felicia Moore kicks off mayoral campaign
Crime is No. 1 on peoples’ minds, but Moore’s also thinking of budget, infrastructure and more.
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Reporter’s Notebook: Atlanta women securing the board chairs
And why it’s going to be a busy year for public interest lawyers
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Fulton approves $800 million budget
But new sheriff, DA say they’ve discovered costly problems
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Reporter’s Notebook: New nonprofit executives, and maybe some local government kumbaya
Also how to get a Zoom with Shaq.
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Georgia public health infrastructure wasn’t ready for this
According to Georgia’s top public health doctor.
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Reporter’s Notebook: Grady full, predicting 2021 and more
Also, maybe another way to fight about corporate property tax breaks
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Georgia governor proposes fairly steady spending in next 17 months
The feds will do much of the new spending in Georgia, not the state.
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Atlanta mayor announces policing plan and moves on jail-closing plan
Bolster support of police, reform policing, and still close the jail
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Don’t expect a boring Georgia legislative session after the year we’ve had
There’s a good chance that this year’s legislative session will be less … boring.
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Meet your Georgia lawmakers — the 2021 session is about to start
How to contact your elected officials
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Reporter’s Notebook: Influential Georgians and research investment
Plus, catching up with a friendly neighborhood poll worker.
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Georgia runoff results, Jan. 5, 2021
Expect counting to continue to Wednesday. At least.
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Georgia Legislature to start, more than one in 10 are freshmen
And some of them won’t know where the bathrooms are.
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Fulton commercial tax breaks get a day in court
Judge’s OK needed for tax breaks on four Atlanta development deals.
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COVID pushed public meetings online; more Atlantans join in neighborhood planning
The digital divide is real, but a hybrid online/offline meeting model may bridge it.
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O4W task force enlists Yang in conversation on guaranteed basic income
The idea was supported by the neighborhood’s most famous son, Martin Luther King Jr.
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Reporter’s Notebook: Jump-start for construction at Greenbriar, voting and more
Also, new life for two Grant Park monuments.
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Kwanza Hall on a month in Washington
” … Trying to call attention to items that usually aren’t on the radar screen.”
