The state program that encourages commuters to find alternatives to solo trips kicks off a weeklong series of programs Monday to launch its “Be the Solution” initiative.
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SunTrust Bank teaches financial literacy as part of national focus on financial education
A dozen years after Congress created a commission to promote financial literacy, SunTrust Bank continues to provide volunteers to help students in metro Atlanta learn methods to manage their money.
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Glenridge Hall site to have 1,000-plus homes, 460,000 square feet of office space
The Atlanta Regional Commission soon will begin its review of plans to redevelop the site of Glenridge Hall, in Sandy Springs, to a live-work-play community that’s to open in 2020.
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Pedestrians, as well as motorists, affected by temporary closing of Mitchell Street
The alternate route created when Martin Luther King Jr. Drive was closed to accommodate the Falcons stadium now has an alternate of its own, which is to remain in effect through the summer.
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Atlanta’s sustainability proposal revives debate over carrots, sticks
Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed’s cabinet may characterize it as a fairly “innocuous” proposal, but the administration’s effort to create Atlanta’s first mandatory sustainability program for commercial buildings has sparked a fairly lively debate.
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U.S. needs national strategy for seaports, says GPA director
When Curtis Foltz looks to the future, the head of the Georgia Ports Authority sees a day when ports around the nation won’t be able handle the demand for moving freight.
“Generally speaking, our ports are falling way behind in terms of modernizing, capacity, velocity, and utilizing capital,” said Foltz, GPA’s executive director since 2010 and head of the nation’s fourth largest, and fastest growing, container port.
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Poachers may be taking alligator snapping turtles, which can bring $10,000 each
Poachers may be to blame for the slow recovery of alligator snapping turtles in Georgia, according to the Georgia Department of Wildlife.
Wildlife researcher Rachel King reported that people she met on the Flint River during her survey of snappers last summer complained about the turtles being protected. They told her snappers are good to eat, according to a DNR statement.
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Transit funding provided in state legislation, priority given to roads in congested regions
Transit can be funded with proceeds of the transportation funding bill state lawmakers have sent to Gov. Nathan Deal, and priority for highway funding shall be assigned to congested regions of the state – such as metro Atlanta.
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Atlanta’s civic leaders celebrate Charlie Loudermilk at opening of Loudermilk Park
Charlie Loudermilk and John Portman sat shoulder to shoulder on a brilliant Tuesday in Atlanta as civic leaders thanked Loudermilk for his public service before cutting the ribbon on the Charlie Loudermilk Park.
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Why can’t Atlanta’s jobs training agency help more people find work, city councilmembers ask
The conversation last week about the effort to salvage Atlanta Workforce Development Agency reminds of the quip about it being hard to drain the swamp when you’re up to your ears in alligators.
Michael Sterling wanted to focus on the systemic changes he’s made in the 10 months he’s served as the agency’s executive director. He took over after a city audit recommended the city consider closing AWDA because it was so deeply troubled.
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Georgia Legislature provides a few wins for environmentalists: Solar energy, plastic bags
Georgia lawmakers have resolved two bills in favor of environmentalists – by passing one bill that promotes the installation of solar power, and by killing another that aimed to prevent local governments from regulating plastic bags.
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Cobb Chairman Tim Lee announces bid for reelection in 2016, touts Braves move
Cobb County Chairman Tim Lee touts the Atlanta Braves’ relocation to the Cumberland area as he announced his campaign for reelection in an email sent Saturday morning.
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Mayor Reed’s office responds to report on proposed sustainability ordinance
Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed’s administration has what it describes as, “serious concerns over the accuracy of claims made,” in a March 24 report of an Atlanta City Council committee meeting on the administration’s proposed sustainability program for commercial buildings. The following is the complete text of a column produced by Denise Quarles, director of the city’s Office of Sustainability, in response to the story:
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Atlanta’s leading commercial real estate players blindsided by Mayor Reed’s sustainability plan
Major real estate interests in Atlanta, including Cousins Properties, Inc. and the Atlanta Hotel Council, said Tuesday they were blindsided by Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed’s proposed water and energy sustainability program.
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Line between homelessness, foreclosure blurs amid lingering impact of great recession
The longer Bill McGahan talked, the clearer became the connection between homelessness and affordable housing. And he didn’t even mention housing.
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Georgia Tech awards Mike Dobbins for his students’ work with Atlanta’s blighted communities
Mike Dobbins is the first non-scientist to win Georgia Tech’s Innovation and Excellence in Laboratory Instruction Award, which recognizes his work with the CityLabs program in the School of City and Regional Planning.
Dobbins is best known these days for the reports and proposals his students have produced on sweeping urban redevelopments. Recent topics include Memorial Drive; Fort McPherson; West End; and Northside Drive (which influenced the debate over Atlanta’s provision of $200 million in bonds to build the Falcons stadium).
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Potential Atlanta mayoral candidates discuss design, development issues with AIA
For more than two hours Thursday evening, four potential candidates for Atlanta mayor in 2017 discussed the city’s design and development issues in a panel discussion hosted by Atlanta’s chapter of the American Institute of Architects.
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Georgia’s middle class shrinks even as household income plummets, Pew reports
A report released today by Pew Charitable Trust shows that Georgia’s middle-class has shrunk since 2000 – even as the benchmark, which is median household income, plummeted by 18 percent during the period.
Here are the numbers:
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Mayor Reed’s legacy list grows as Wall Street approves city’s course
Following voter approval of Tuesday’s $250 million bond referendum, Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed can add the improvement of Atlanta’s roads, bridges, sidewalks, and public facilities to his lengthening legacy list.
As Reed begins his sixth year as mayor, legacies of his tenure include:
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Ebola research by Emory, CDC yields results as aid workers arrive for monitoring after exposure to virus
As several aid workers exposed to the Ebola virus arrive for monitoring in Atlanta, researchers from Emory University and the CDC report progress in their efforts to improve treatment of the disease.
