A Georgia Tech student was at the center of a presentation Monday at which NASA confirmed evidence that water flows on modern day Mars.
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Atlanta to invest nearly $1 million in tree planting, programs about urban forest
Trees Atlanta is slated to plant about 4,000 trees throughout Atlanta and provide various programs to teach people about the importance of trees, according to legislation pending before the Atlanta City Council.
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50 years of the most ambitious piece of cultural legislation in U.S. history
After the aborted Bay of Pigs operation. . . . After the nuclear brinkmanship that followed the discovery of nuclear missiles in Cuba. . . . After President John F. Kennedy fell before an assassin’s bullet, rattling the nation to its core. . . . President Lyndon B. Johnson reminded America of something it had never lost and never would: its imagination, its humanness, and its capacity to aspire to the heights of learning.
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Atlanta celebrates win of $30 million Choice grant from HUD
A united team welcomed Julian Castro, secretary of the U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Monday morning when he announced that Atlanta had been awarded a competitive $30 million Choice grant.
Castro said he is pleased with all the economic development that has been drawn to Atlanta, but HUD wants to make sure that “progress happens and every neighborhood benefits, that every section of Atlanta can share in that prosperity.”
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Neighborhood Summit: Michael Thurmond describes how education transformed his life
The theme of the sixth annual Neighborhood Summit – the largest to date – was “Embracing the Power of Education.”
The keynote address on the “Power of Education” was delivered Michael Thurmond, who recently stepped down as the interim superintendent of DeKalb County Schools.
Thurmond said he’s a living example of the transformational power of education – as the descendant of three generations of illiterate cotton sharecroppers.
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Georgia Tech student at center of international intrigue over whether NASA has found evidence of water on Mars
The presence of a Georgia Tech student on a NASA panel on Monday is fueling international speculation that NASA may announce it has discovered evidence of water on Mars. NASA did confirm that water flows on today’s Mars and the student was quoted at length in NASA’s statement.
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Remembering Cabral Franklin: a multi-talented man and special friend
By Guest Columnist GEORGE “CHIPP” NAPPER III, a sales account executive for the Atlanta Business Chronicle and one of Cabral Franklin’s dearest friends
Growing up in Cascade in the early 1980’s was a golden era. We lived in a close and tight-knit community, where everyone was my uncle.
There were families like the Arringtons, the Axams, the Youngs and the Franklins. This close-knit community was also strengthened by the facts that professionally the families worked together.
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Atlanta likely winner of $30 million Choice grant from HUD
The City of Atlanta likely has been awarded a $30 million Choice grant to help revitalize communities in west Atlanta from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed had a twinkle in his eye Friday morning when he said HUD Secretary Juliån Castro would be coming to Atlanta Monday morning to make an announcement.
Reed revealed Castro’s upcoming visit during a sit down interview with three reporters after the quarterly meeting of the Atlanta Committee for Progress at Invesco.
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Melissa Allen Heath is new leader at GreenLaw; environmental heroes honored
Green Law honored four legacy environmentalists Thursday evening at the Nelson Mullins law firm while introducing its new executive director – Melissa Allen Heath – to attendees.
Heath is joining the GreenLaw firm after working for the Environmental Protection Agency Region 4 since 1987 – most recently as associate regional counsel.
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Georgia ports thrive, plan $1.4 billion expansion to grow business: GPA ED
Georgia’s ports are on a roll, and the Georgia Ports Authority has drawn up a $1.4 billion plan to expand port facilities over the next decade in order to cement Georgia ports as the primary ones to serve the entire Southeast U.S., the authority’s executive director, Curtis Foltz, said Thursday.
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Open Streets movement walks into Atlanta
For city dwellers, there is no freer feeling than when people on foot or bicycles take over a street that’s been closed off to cars.
That feeling is so infectious that it is spreading throughout the country and the world – getting a foothold in a multitude of cities including right here through Atlanta Streets Alive – the next one will be held on Sunday, Sept. 27.
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Fulfilling a dream: Metro Atlanta’s civic leaders fund public art
Public art will be installed in four metro Atlanta communities through an effort funded by local civic leaders who were so moved by a public art program in Philadelphia that they wanted to start a similar one here.
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Potential buyer of Atlanta Civic Center: Deep pockets, experience in metro Atlanta
The Houston-based company negotiating to buy the Atlanta Civic Center property has a market cap of $4.05 billion, a regional office in Dunwoody, and has been developing shopping centers and other commercial real estate since 1948 – all of which indicates the company has the wherewithal to create a game-changing development on the northern end of downtown Atlanta.
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Atlanta United soccer team keeping Cobb site as back up for training complex if DeKalb deal falls apart
Plans to locate the soccer training facility for the Atlanta United FC in DeKalb County might not be a done deal after all.
An official with the AMB Group – Arthur M. Blank’s group of companies – confirmed that the soccer club is reconsidering a site in Marietta in case the DeKalb deal falls apart.
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Black Lives Matter movement underscores real tragedy: All lives do not matter
Music has long been the outlet for a generation’s frustrations with the status quo. Bob Dylan, John Lennon, Marvin Gaye and Nina Simone all wrote and performed songs that spoke to and for the voiceless.
My generation has its own voices, including Janelle Monae, the oft black- and white-attired singer and woman behind Wondaland Records.
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Behind the scenes at the Governor’s Mansion, the “people’s house”
This week guest contributors JENNIFER DICKEY and CATHERINE LEWIS, history professors at Kennesaw State University, discuss the history of the Governor’s Mansion and its occupants.
As he was leaving an event at the Governor’s Mansion in Ansley Park in 1963, C&S Bank president Mills Lane was nearly struck on the head by a stone that broke loose from the porch. Lane had long been an advocate for a new Governor’s Mansion to replace the house in Ansley Park that had served as home for Georgia’s governors since 1924; the close call with the falling stone was, for him, the last straw.
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Jimmy Sibley (1919-2015) – an Atlanta leader who stood for fairness
Over the years, Jimmy Sibley and I would joke about the “When I’m dead” column.
He would tell me certain things in confidence, and then tell me in his Southern gentleman’s way that it could go in the “When I’m dead” column.
Well this was a column I never wanted to write.
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Rainbow sidewalks art installation approved on temporary basis, artist protested
The artist protested, but the Atlanta City Council voted unanimously Monday to allow the rainbow flag to be painted on the road as crosswalks near Piedmont Park on a temporary basis, not a permanent one.
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Civic elders ask millennials to engage with community; How will they respond?
This may be a breakout year for millennials in metro Atlanta because the region’s current leaders are actively encouraging young folks to join them in the public realm. One question is the form the relationship will take.
