The Atlanta Audubon Society has produced a best practices guide that provides advice on how to manage and maintain land in ways that promote both people and wildlife. The document is available for free download on the society’s website.
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Honoring Rosa Parks at Geogia Tech: Sculpture unveiling slated
A sculpture honoring Rosa Parks is to be dedicated Thursday afternoon on the campus of Georgia Tech. The sculptor is Martin Dawe, who crafted the sculpture of Martin Luther King, Jr. installed last year on the grounds of the state Capitol.
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Atlanta may make it easier to expand existing homeless shelters
A proposal now making the rounds of Atlanta’s neighborhood planning units says Atlanta has a growing number of people in homeless families and the city should make it easier to expand existing facilities – provided operators get a special use permit from the city.
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Eleven Georgia counties make Census list of nation’s fastest growing counties
Eleven of the nation’s 100 fastest-growing counties are in Georgia, the latest Census estimate shows. Seven of them are in Atlanta’s distant suburbs or the mountains, and two are close to Athens – which the AARP has cited as one of the best retirement cities for three consecutive years.
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$100 million in transit funding, no clarity on who will divvy up the money
The State Road and Tollway Authority is to distribute the $100 million in state funding for transit. It’s not clear who will serve on the SRTA board that will make the decision and, the last time SRTA divided transit money, nearly two-thirds of the money went to metro Atlanta.
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Metro Atlanta absorbed eight of 10 Georgians who arrived in past seven years, Census reports
The latest population estimates from the Census show that metro Atlanta absorbed 81 percent of the state’s population growth through the first seven years of the current decade. This means an estimated 598,000 newcomers landed in the region, while the rest of the entire state absorbed just 144,000 new residents.
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Marcus Stroke Network comes as disease hits soaring number of millennials
The Marcus Foundation has donated $15 million to enhance the prevention and treatment of stroke in the Stroke Belt that covers 11 southern states. It comes on the heels of an analysis by Scientific American magazine that shows stroke is no longer a disease of the elderly — it’s striking a soaring number of millennials.
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Ga. lawmakers punt on protest of offshore oil drilling as historic oil lease goes to market in Gulf of Mexico
As Georgia lawmakers defer voting on resolutions to oppose oil exploration and drilling off Georgia’s coast, on Wednesday the largest offshore oil and gas lease sale in the nation’s history was conducted for most of the Gulf of Mexico.
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Fulton County commissioners vote to continue efforts to decriminalize mental illness
Fulton County commissioners took another step Wednesday toward ending the county jail’s reputation as the state’s largest mental institution. The goal is to treat mental illnesses through a network of programs based outside the jail, possibly in a future facility designed to provide treatment rather than incarceration.
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Georgia’s rural communities can seek federal funds for broadband
The successful rollout of a rural broadband program in Tennessee, highlighted Tuesday in a federal statement, could serve as a template for some of the upcoming broadband efforts that state lawmakers have supported in Georgia’s rural communities.
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Atlanta’s potholes: Repair crews added while some consider new ‘pothole posse’
Potholes and the metal plates that cover some of them are enough of a problem that one member of the Atlanta City Council has suggested the city consider reconvening the “pothole posse” formed by then Mayor Shirley Franklin to fix crumbling streets.
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BeltLine elevates head of housing policy to cabinet level position
The Atlanta BeltLine, Inc. has elevated the position of housing director to a cabinet level position, underscoring BeltLine President and CEO Brian McGowan’s intention to sharpen the BeltLine’s effort to comply with City Hall’s mandate that the BeltLine develop 5,600 units of affordable housing along the corridor.
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MARTA seeks to develop small site at Peachtree Center Station, near ATL Streetcar
MARTA is looking for a partner to develop a plum of a property, a sliver of land in Downtown Atlanta that provides ready access to the Atlanta Streetcar and MARTA’s Peachtree Center Station.
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Atlanta Science Festival showcases technology of future, reminds of past accomplishments
Amid the robot shows and eco-expeditions, the Atlanta Science Festival commemorates the strength of Atlanta’s roots as a center of technology and manufacturing. The event continues through March 24.
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Water restrictions eased in metro Atlanta, though dry conditions continue
The state has eased watering restriction in several counties in metro Atlanta. All types of outdoor water use is allowed, but landscapes can be watered only from 4 p.m. to 10 a.m., according to a new advisory from the Georgia Department of Natural Resources.
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Metro Atlanta housing futures dinged in two new federal reports
Two federal reports released Wednesday dashed chilled water on the housing market in metro Atlanta and across the Southeast. One report predicted a continuing status quo of modest growth, and another forecast a weakening market due to the new federal tax law.
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Southface to recognize four leaders in sustainability at Greenprints program
Southface is preparing to recognize four projects that embody the philosophy of sustainability that forms the foundation of the Fulcrum Awards, which are a highlight next week at Southface’s Greenprints program.
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Atlanta’s next big dream: Huge Internet system to spur development, improve lifestyle
Atlanta has never been at a loss for big dreams, and the latest project maintains tradition. The city intends to develop a huge Internet system that will do everything from locate gunshots to spark development in blighted neighborhoods.
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MARTA seeks federal lobbyist, though has kept same firm since 2009
MARTA is shopping for a federal lobbying team that is to work with the Trump administration. The question is whether MARTA is inclined to replace the firm it’s had on Capitol Hill since the Obama adminstration.
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Harper Lee’s letters bound for Emory after aborted attempts to sell, donate, return to author
The same week a court issued a ruling to unseal the last will of To Kill a Mockingbird author Harper Lee, Emory University announced it has acquired some of the author’s papers that a California lawyer had tried to donate, return to Lee, or sell at auction – but couldn’t get his price.
