By Guest Columnist MARILYN A. BROWN, Brook Byers Professor of Sustainable Systems at Georgia Tech’s School of Public Policy
Since the Industrial Revolution, the atmosphere has been the world’s principal repository for carbon pollution, providing a free-for-all approach to waste management that has resulted in global climate change with serious consequences for human and environmental health. Responding to the need for action, two major climate milestones occurred this summer.
Starting in spring 2016, every GRTA Xpress bus route will be affected by an overhaul of bus routes that’s intended to increase bus ridership.
Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed has said Atlanta will condemn a homeless shelter located at the corner of Peachtree and Pine streets because controversy has lingered, “too long.” Meanwhile, the Obama administration has filed a brief in a federal lawsuit in favor of the rights of homeless persons.
The Coca-Cola Co. Thursday named James Quincey, president of its Europe Group who has spent 19 years with the soft-drink company, as its new president and chief operating officer.
“We haven’t had a president since 2007,” Coca-Cola’s Chairman and CEO Muhtar Kent said in a media conference call Thursday morning. “It’s great to have someone of James’ caliber to take over.”
But Kent stopped short of naming Quincey the heir apparent of the company.
Three higher ed campuses in Georgia rank among the greenest schools in the nation, according to the ninth annual rankings of colleges and universities released Tuesday by Sierra magazine.
By Maria Saporta A sale of the Civic Center will not happen unless Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed gets an offer he can live with. The city has acknowledged that there are two finalists still in the running to buy and redevelop the 20-acre site that includes the Atlanta Civic Center. But after a luncheon speech […]
The forced resignation of William Perry, former executive director of Common Cause of Georgia, speaks to the breadth of redirection of the national organization under the leadership of former Clinton cabinet member Robert Reich.
After years of squeezing employees to help balance its budget, MARTA hopes to boost morale by offering a benefits program with interest-free payments, via a payroll deduction plan, on purchases ranging from legal services to computers.
To call Atlanta an international city is to use the parlance of the day. Cosmopolitan, metropolitan, home of distinguished higher education institutions and leading cultural centers and sites, we daily speak of Atlanta in the world, and the world in Atlanta.
But to a degree that we often underestimate, Georgia and Atlanta have always operated on a national and even world stage. We are products of each other.
Interest rates may start going up – gradually – sooner rather than later.
That was the impression that Dennis Lockhart, president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, shared with members of the Atlanta Press Club during a luncheon talk on Monday.
By Guest Columnist EDWARD POWERS, executive director of HOPE Atlanta
Joe, a veteran of the recent conflict in the Middle East, has a wife – and together they are the primary support for their grandchild. They were homeless when they came to HOPE Atlanta, seeking help in getting off the streets.
We helped them find stable and affordable housing they needed ,and we also offered financial support until Joe could find a job.
Stand down. Don’t talk.
A dangerous trend is afoot within our local governments.
The public is being shut out of the decision-making process on major deals involving millions and millions of tax dollars. Usually the argument is that a key project must move forward at a super-fast speed. That means there’s no time for the public to have a role in the process.
The Castle mansion in Midtown has been nominated for the National Register of Historic Places, according to an agenda item slated for consideration Wednesday by the Atlanta Urban Design Commission.
Director Jonathon Demme has an Oscar for “The Silence of the Lambs.”
Screenwriter Diablo Cody has an Oscar for “Juno.”
Meryl Streep has Oscars (and nominations) for just about everything she’s ever done, which means Margaret Thatcher, Julia Child, an evil nun, an overwhelmed mother, a Holocaust survivor, a horrible boss, etc., etc., etc.
Reconstruction was the term given to the period following the Civil War during which the United States set conditions under which the rebellious Southern States would be allowed back into the Union. Coming out of Reconstruction, the City of Atlanta was experiencing growing pains but one of the more positive results of Atlanta’s emergence as […]
The Fox Theatre released today an economic impact study that shows the financial returns of the effort begun 40 years ago to save the theater from demolition.
The Atlanta Press Club on Friday is announcing four inductees into the 2015 Hall of Fame – all outstanding journalists who have played an important role in Georgia.
The four journalists – Charlayne Hunter-Gault, Hank Klibanoff, Denis O’Hayer and Dick Pettys – will be recognized for their work at a dinner on Nov. 5 at the InterContinental Buckhead.
Maybe it was destiny.
On June 22, 1979, the first Home Depot opened – Store 101 – on Memorial Drive right inside I-285 in DeKalb County.
On Tuesday, the Atlanta United Football Club announced it would locate its soccer training facility on property owned by DeKalb County – along Memorial Drive inside I-285.
In a vote that split along racial and geographic lines, DeKalb County Commissioner voted Tuesday morning 4-to-3 in favor of a deal to lure the Atlanta United soccer team’s $30 million training facility to a site along Memorial Drive inside I-285.
Despite protests from three commissioners and people in the audience, no time was made available for public comment about the $30 million soccer complex and the county’s commitment to invest up to $12 million in the project.
