San Diego – San Diego built what a plaque says is the nation’s first leash-free dog beach, in 1972, at a time the beachfront community was blossoming into a surfing capitol and the Haight-Asbury of southern California.
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San Diego attractions: Some resemble fantasies portrayed at Disneyland
SAN DIEGO – One fascinating aspect of the tourist attractions in San Diego is that a fair number of them are as much fantasy as those 100 miles north, in Disneyland.
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San Diego, Atlanta: Two convention cities seek to grow their trade, attractions
SAN DIEGO – Atlanta and San Diego share more than Top 5 rankings in the competitive convention business. Both favor architecture designed by Atlanta architech John Portman’s company, and both have litigated over the use of the hotel/motel tax to fund public projects.
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BeltLine’s Eastside Trail to be extended through use of eminent domain, if necessary
The City of Atlanta is preparing to acquire additional land to extend the Atlanta BeltLine’s Eastside Trail, by condemnation if necessary.
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Turner Field: Georgia State’s bid bolstered by 20-year effort to redevelop Downtown Atlanta
There’s one major reason Georgia State University is viewed as a front-runner in the effort to redevelop Turner Field – GSU has been implementing a vision to redevelop its neighborhood into a walkable community since the 1990s.
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Atlanta expands sustainability effort with plans for solar panels on public buildings
Atlanta became the first city in Georgia Monday to establish a solar plan to install solar panels on public buildings, a major move in the city’s efforts to become more sustainable.
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Atlanta’s homage to Southern folk artists to be restored to pre-Olympics grandeur
Folk Art Park, Atlanta’s homage to Southern folk artists including Howard Finster and Lonnie Holley, is on track to be repaired and restored to its quirky beauty when the park was opened for the 1996 Summer Olympic Games.
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Jewish Family, Career Services to expand facilities for wide array of social services
Following the success of building a new Ben Massell Dental Clinic, the Jewish Family and Career Services of Atlanta is preparing to complete its campus in Dunwoody as it continues to collaborate with other social service agencies.
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GSU economic forecaster predicts December rate hike, the Fed telegraphs the same
Rajeev Dhawan had the good fortune Wednesday to see a prediction he made in the morning be proven true that afternoon, when the Federal Reserve telegraphed that a rate hike is likely in December.
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Decatur park to be built by pure determination of advocates
A former eye sore of a gas station in Decatur is to be rejuvenated into a community park once the soil is remediated in a process that could begin as early as Wednesday.
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Atlanta, MARTA, GDOT turn their attention to southwest Atlanta’s redevelopment
The latest mark of what is proving to be significant government effort to bolster the redevelopment of southwest Atlanta is a proposal to use money from Atlanta’s Brownfield Revolving Loan Fund to remediate portions of the Atlanta BeltLine’s Westside Trail.
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Atlanta mayor, council at odds over road project to serve $100 million development planned in NW Atlanta
The Atlanta City Council on Monday is slated to consider a vote to overturn Mayor Kasim Reed’s veto of the council’s plan to use $800,000 in city funds to extend Moores Mill Road, in northwest Atlanta – an issue that roiled on Reed’s Facebook page.
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Cobb County Chairman Tim Lee talks up economic fruit of Braves’ move to Cobb
Cobb County Chairman Tim Lee is using the second anniversary of the Atlanta Braves announcement of their move to Cobb County to talk up the economic benefits Cobb will receive and is already receiving.
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Georgia’s transportation funding law helps win additional federal funds: Chamber
The transportation funding bill enacted by the Georgia Legislature this year has helped the state draw down additional federal funding in the transportation bill now being negotiated in Congress, according to the Georgia Chamber of Commerce.
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Grant to preserve five houses on same block as Martin Luther King Jr.’s birth home
The rejuvenation of Auburn Avenue is expanding, this time in the preservation of five houses on the same block as the Martin Luther King, Jr. birth home, through a grant provided by American Express and the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
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Atlanta Streetcar to get conduct code: No vaping, spitting, or evading fare
Just as MARTA has its Ride With Respect code of conduct, the Atlanta Streetcar could soon have its own conduct code that outlaws everything from evading a fare, to spitting, to vaping an electronic cigarette.
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Norfolk Southern continues roll-out of lower-emission locomotives
Norfolk Southern rolled out in Chicago last week more of the eco-friendly locomotives the company unveiled in Atlanta in September. The engines are designed to reduce particulate matter emissions by 76 percent, according to a Chicago official.
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Policeman with strong political record takes charge of precinct overseeing Midtown, Downtown
The Atlanta police major who on Thursday took charge of the precinct for Midtown and Downtown brings a strong political record that includes a suspension for saying he wanted to beat then Mayor Shirley Franklin in the head with a bat, and delivering the local police union support to Kasim Reed in the 2009 runoff election for mayor.
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Ga. Water Coalition’s annual “Dirty Dozen” commends state for opposition to Palmetto Pipeline
The Georgia Water Coalition used the release Wednesday of its annual “Dirty Dozen” list of threats to water quality to commend Georgia for denying a permit to facilitate construction of the Palmetto Pipeline.
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Planned Atlanta hotel latest venture by hotel/casino company run by Seminole Tribe of Florida
The new Hard Rock Hotel announced for downtown Atlanta is the latest venture for a parent company owned by the Seminole Tribe of Florida, which a story on forbes.com described as, “tribal pioneers in the casino and gaming business.”
