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Author Archives: Maria Saporta
Maria Saporta, executive editor, is a longtime Atlanta business, civic and urban affairs journalist with a deep knowledge of our city, our region and state. From 2008 to 2020, she wrote weekly columns and news stories for the Atlanta Business Chronicle. Prior to that, she spent 27 years with The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, becoming its business columnist in 1991. Maria received her Master’s degree in urban studies from Georgia State and her Bachelor’s degree in journalism from Boston University. Maria was born in Atlanta to European parents and has two young adult children. She launched SaportaReport in February 2009.
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Blank Foundation’s Fay Twersky: ‘I’m a crazy optimist’
Six months into becoming president of the Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation, Fay Twersky said moving to Atlanta “has been a jolt in the arm professionally.”
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Atlanta City Council asked to vote on public safety center despite unknowns
So many unanswered questions.
In light of mounting opposition to its initial proposal, the Atlanta Police Foundation hastily presented an alternative plan at last Wednesday’s finance committee meeting of the Atlanta City Council for a new public safety training center on the site of the historic Prison Farm property in DeKalb County.
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Atlanta: we can have it all – density, affordable housing while protecting our tree canopy
The City of Atlanta is literally at a crossroads over how it will grow.
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A ‘Green Cabinet’ for Atlanta: keeping our parks, greenspace healthy and safe
What a confluence. The issue of public safety in Atlanta’s parks rose to the surface this past 10 days with two horrific events.
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Filmmaker Tosca Musk moves her base to Georgia
The lure of Georgia’s film tax credits has attracted Tosca Musk to move her production company to Georgia.
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Atlanta entities can play a major role to help vaccinate the world
The message is clear: Nobody is safe until all of us are safe. When it comes to vaccines to protect people from the COVID-19 virus and its variants, we will need to ta global strategy
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Chattahoochee RiverLands’ pilot project in Cobb receives Woodruff gift
The Chattahoochee Riverlands initiative is moving forward with a pilot project in Cobb County thanks to a $9 million gift from the Robert W. Woodruff Foundation to the Trust for Public Land.
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So sad: Midtown/Grady High’s front lawn becoming a parking lot
It’s hard to believe this is actually happening. Midtown (formerly known as Grady) High School’s historic front lawn is being turned into a parking lot.
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Vine City’s Cook Park turns flooded land into a legacy of history and peace
After a devastating flood ravaged Vine City in 2002, neighborhood residents gathered with more than 100 dignitaries and guests to celebrate the opening of the new Rodney Cook Sr. Park in Vine City on Wednesday.
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High Museum’s Rand Suffolk: ‘A place where all of Atlanta is comfortable coming together’
The year 2020 was a year of reckoning with the issues of race, equity and inclusion for a myriad of institutions across our community and nationally. But the High Museum of Art – the leading museum in the Southeast – has been undergoing such a reckoning for the past five years.
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High Museum receives $3.1 million grant to conserve its collections
The High Museum of Art has received one of the largest foundation grants in its history with a $3.1 million grant from the Sara Giles Moore Foundation to conserve and care for the Museum’s art collections.
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Jeff Arnold’s shining moment: Sharecare going public, boosting Atlanta’s well-being
A decade after its launch, Atlanta-based Sharecare is enjoying the most significant week in its history.
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Let’s not give up on the dream to become the ‘City of Peace’
The vision to brand Atlanta as a city of peace became a bit cloudy recently when local leaders decided to postpone their efforts to host a World Summit for Nobel Peace Laureates in 2023.
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Atlanta’s Community Foundation partners with Black Bank Foundation
The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta is partnering with the recently-formed National Black Bank Foundation (NBBF) by serving as its fiscal sponsor.
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Metro Atlanta Chamber names Dwayna Haley head of branding; communications
By Maria Saporta Dwayna Haley has been named the new chief brand and communications officer for the Metro Atlanta Chamber beginning July 26. In her role, Haley will be part of the Chamber’s senior leadership team leading its executive and internal communications, marketing, branding and media relations efforts. “We’re excited about the energy and perspective […]
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A personal ode to Grady Hospital
After being loaded into the ambulance, the emergency medical technician asked: “Would you rather go to Grady or to Atlanta Medical?”
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Camp Twin Lakes raises $22.5 million, breaking ground on new campus
Camp Twin Lakes will mark two milestones on Tuesday. First, it will have an in-person ground-breaking ceremony for its third year-round campus. And it will announce the public launch of its “Growing Together” campaign to raise $22.5 million.
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Tyler Perry on new Fort Mac deal: ‘It’s an incredible moment in time’
In an exclusive interview Friday morning, media mogul Tyler Perry described the vision for the entertainment district he will develop on the 37.5 acres that he is buying next to the existing Tyler Perry Studios.
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Delta survives 2020; sees uptick in 2021; shareholder proposal passes at annual meeting
Calling 2020 the “most challenging year in our company’s history, Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian reassured shareholders during Thursday morning’s virtual annual meeting that the airline is experiencing the “start of a meaningful recovery.”
