Articles by David Pendered

Dead zone in Gulf of Mexico largest ever, as Georgia awaits ruling on water flow to Florida

August 2, 2017, 10:13 pm/0 Comments

The federal climate agency on Wednesday reported the annual dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico is the largest on record – about the size of New Jersey. The report comes as Georgia awaits a ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court over the amount of water that flows from Georgia into Florida. Florida says the flow is insufficient to support the oyster habitat in the Apalachicola Bay.

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Transit politics: MARTA vows commitment to SW ATL; mayoral candidate retorts

July 27, 2017, 9:55 am/3 Comments

Either MARTA intends to expand transit service in Southwest Atlanta, or MARTA and Atlanta are collaborating to bury Southwest Atlanta in favor of building a rail line to Emory University and its gridlocked Clifton Road corridor. At Atlanta City Hall on Wednesday, MARTA talked about its commitment to Southwest, and mayoral candidate Vincent Fort raised the Clifton corridor issue.

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Proposal to use Atlanta’s surplus property for affordable housing hits snag at City Hall

July 25, 2017, 11:14 pm/0 Comments

The idea sounds simple enough – provide Atlanta’s surplus property for use as construction sites for housing that’s affordable for a schoolteacher. Pending legislation to do just that uncorked a wide-reaching debate Tuesday among members of the Atlanta City Council over the city’s past and present efforts to promote a range of housing prices in the city.

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