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Oakland Cemetery offers two guided tours this week of African American Grounds

July 23, 2017, 4:55 pm/0 Comments

Historic Oakland Cemetery is expanding its efforts to share information about the restoration of the African American Grounds section of the city’s cemetery. Two guided tours are scheduled this week, on Wednesday and Saturday. Admission is free and registration is required.

Journalist who fought coal ash dump in Jesup wins Greenlaw’s Environmental Championship Award

July 20, 2017, 3:36 pm/1 Comment

Newspaper co-owner and president Dink NeSmith and The Press-Sentinel, of Jesup, will receive Greenlaw’s Special Media Recognition for Environmental Championship Award for their efforts to expose plans for a coal ash dump in Wayne County. The dump’s operator withdrew its 2015 application in April.

Atlanta City Design Project to be presented to stakeholders in 410-page book

July 19, 2017, 8:17 pm/5 Comments

Now that the Atlanta City Design Project is nearing completion, Atlanta is making arrangements to present the proposal to stakeholders in a 410-page book that’s to be as expansive as the massive proposal to plan for the city’s next 20 years of anticipated growth and development.

Atlanta funds $26 million to expand homelessness initiative devised under Mayor Reed

July 18, 2017, 5:19 pm/1 Comment

It took four years, but Atlanta has allocated significant funding – up to $26 million – for an initiative Mayor Kasim Reed announced in 2013 to reduce homelessness in the city. This money is the city’s payment into a fund that’s expected to reach a total of $115.6 million.

Can’t make the note: Commercial properties fall behind, Stonecrest retail hit hard

July 17, 2017, 5:06 pm/0 Comments

All those empty storefronts, offices and apartments around metro Atlanta have propelled the region to ninth in the nation in the balance of securitized commercial real-estate loans that are delinquent, according to a new report from real estate provider Trepp Inc. The hardest hit area is the newly formed city of Stonecrest.

Joe Beasley’s latest efforts: Drinking water in Somaliland, human rights in Columbia

July 16, 2017, 8:05 pm/2 Comments

Atlanta human rights activist Joe Beasley’s latest projects involve helping provide water to the people of drought-stricken Somaliland and advancing the human rights of black folks in some countries in South America.

Atlanta recognizes top performers in Better Buildings Challenge as fate of national program seems unclear

July 14, 2017, 5:24 pm/0 Comments

On the heels of reports that rank Atlanta among cities with the most green buildings, the city of Atlanta and its partners have recognized nearly 80 buildings that are leaders in the Atlanta Better Buildings Challenge.

MARTA dreams of converting dull to destination at King Memorial Station

July 13, 2017, 10:04 am/1 Comment

Now that MARTA has secured a deal to develop homes and shops next to the King Memorial Station, MARTA is seeking an artist to energize the tunnel that will be the only pedestrian route to the station from the planned development.

Georgia’s gamble on film industry continues to pay off

July 12, 2017, 6:12 pm/0 Comments

Gov. Nathan Deal’s trade mission to Hollywood in 2015 evidently continues to reap benefits. Deal announced the film industry generated $9.5 billion of economic impact for the fiscal year that ended June 30. That’s up from the $7 billion in economic impact for the previous fiscal year.

Financial literacy: ‘It’s not about how big your paycheck is; it’s what you do with it’

July 10, 2017, 3:37 pm/7 Comments

David Malone says he learned more than he ever expected from the SunTrust financial literacy program offered by his employer. The program might even prove to be life changing, depending on how he and his wife decide to implement its lessons.

Metro Atlanta ranks third in green buildings as Trump proposes to defund Energy Star Program

July 9, 2017, 4:32 pm/1 Comment

Metro Atlanta has climbed to third place on the fourth annual Green Building Adoption Index, an index led by CBRE, a real estate firm. But the big news appears in at the start of the executive summary – regarding the potential demise of the green building movement.

Atlanta now a national poster child in homeless debate for closure of Peachtree/Pine shelter

July 7, 2017, 12:42 pm/1 Comment

Atlanta is the national poster child chosen by a digital affiliate of The Atlantic magazine to illustrate the challenge of providing for the homeless. The news hook was the pending closure of the shelter at the corner of Peachtree and Pine streets.

Maynard Jackson’s burial site now marked with an obelisk of honed black granite

July 6, 2017, 4:47 pm/0 Comments

The widow of former Atlanta Mayor Maynard Jackson’s family has unveiled a monument at his burial site in Atlanta’s Historic Oakland Cemetery – a 14.5-foot black obelisk made of honed granite from Africa.

I-85 collapse prompted greater use of telecommuting, transit: CBRE report

July 5, 2017, 1:02 pm/1 Comment

A new report from the real estate firm CBRE on lessons learned from the collapse of Interstate 85 in Atlanta shows that telecommuting played a greater role than MARTA in helping employees continue their work while avoiding traffic congestion.

Atlanta law firm plants seeds of diversity as black lawyers comprise 4.4 percent of bar

July 3, 2017, 3:23 pm/1 Comment

Just 4.4 percent of the nation’s 1.1 million lawyers are black or African American. The Atlanta law firm Morris, Manning & Martin has just wrapped up its seventh annual program to introduce a diverse group of high school students to the legal profession as part of its effort to help plant the seeds of greater diversity.

Georgia now tracking saltmarsh sparrow in hopes of helping imperiled species

July 2, 2017, 4:58 pm/0 Comments

Georgia is joining an effort to track the migratory patterns of a bird that biologists predict could be extinct within 15 years – the tiny saltwater sparrow, which is barely more than 4 inches long and weighs less than an ounce.

Pullman Yard nominated for landmark status, which would curb potential demolition

June 30, 2017, 4:13 pm/3 Comments

Atlanta is taking steps to preserve the old buildings at Pullman Yard by nominating them for landmark status. The nomination follows an effort by the Atlanta City Council to protect land on which the yard is situated, including the headwaters of Hardee Creek.

Neon Deion Sanders, Koch brothers, Snoop Dogg – odd bedfellows, indeed

June 29, 2017, 8:04 pm/0 Comments

Deion Sanders, a star of both the Atlanta Braves and Falcons in the early 1990s, has partnered with the politically conservative Koch brothers to fight poverty in Dallas. An “unlikely partnership” is how a reporter with the Associated Press characterized the relation.

ATL Streetcar transfer to MARTA to take about a year: Public Works commissioner

June 28, 2017, 5:23 pm/3 Comments

The transfer of the ownership and management of the Atlanta Streetcar from the city to MARTA will take about a year to finalize and will be retroactive to July 1, Atlanta’s Public Works commissioner said Wednesday.

Invest Atlanta to approve final financing for proton center, get new board member

June 27, 2017, 8:27 pm/0 Comments

Invest Atlanta is slated to approve Wednesday the final step in a financing deal that will enable construction to resume at the Georgia Proton Treatment Center, in Midtown, just as the Atlanta City Council is poised to appoint a new member to the development authority’s board.

Law & Public Policy

In driverless cars, new hope for Atlanta’s gridlock
By Eric Tanenblatt The world came to know Atlanta at the height of the civil rights struggle as “t...
Leadership in Action

Launching a Second Century of Service
By Rebekah Henry Murphy, 2017-2018 President of the Junior League of Atlanta For our entire history,...
Financial Inclusion

Will improved credit reporting standards help Atlantans?
By John Hope Bryant, Founder, Chairman, and CEO, Operation HOPE, Inc. According to a recent Forbes r...
Poverty & Equity

Where Charlottesville Meets Atlanta
Charlottesville is a sobering reality of how we view social mobility in this country– fear of...
People, Places, Parks

Chattahoochee River poised for rebirth
A largely abandoned corridor snaking through Atlanta. Industrial sites that have treated the corri...
Higher Education

The Incalculable Value of a Public Research Institution
By James Weyhenmeyer The first day of a new school year is marked by excitement and expectation, and...
Metro Business

Metro Atlanta Chamber’s Top 10 Atlanta & Georgia Rankings 2017
Metro Atlanta is making economic strides on a global scale, driving results across the industry sect...
Global Health

Haiti Disease Detectives Join Fight Against Zika
By Dr. Dionisio Herrera Guibert, Director of TEPHINET I recently attended a graduation ceremony in H...
Region Matters

ARC Regional Snapshot: Affordable Housing
Overall, Atlanta is an affordable place… or is it? Housing affordability is a concern, not just...
Transit

MARTA Breaks Ground on Chamblee TOD
Pictured L to R: MARTA Sr. Director of TOD Amanda Rhein, MARTA Chief-of-Staff Rukiya Thomas, Chamble...
Sustainable Communities

Atlanta Mayoral Candidates to Address Affordable Housing Issues
City for All Housing Coalition, TransFormation Alliance Sponsor Sept. 6 Forum Candidates for the N...
Philanthropy

Taking Care of Atlanta’s Historic Westside
One of the things I love about Atlanta is that we are a city of neighborhoods, each with its own uni...

Operation Hope

Task Force for Global Health

Georgia State University

Dentons

The Junior League of Atlanta

Metro Atlanta Chamber

The Trust for Public Land

United Way of Greater Atlanta

The Center For Working Families

Atlanta Regional Commission

ANDP

MARTA

Maria’s Metro

David Pendered

Jamil’s Georgia

Eleanor Ringel Cater

Tom Baxter

Lyle Harris

Seen in Atlanta

Photo Picks

WABE

ATL Business Chronicle

Stories of Atlanta by Lance

Maynard Eaton

Moments by Chris Schroder

Michelle Hiskey & Ben Smith

Saba Long