By Guest Columnist BILL TODD, Georgia Tech professor of healthcare management. On Saturday, Sept. 24, 2022, the life of the remarkable and humble Dorothy Marie Mallinson Todd was celebrated at her lifetime home church, St. ...

By Guest Columnist PETER DYE, assistant director of community and global engagement and TheDream.US scholar advisor at Oglethorpe University. Last month, Oglethorpe University hosted the inaugural “Coalition and Community Building: Supporting Georgia’s Undocumented Students in Higher ...

By Guest Columnist JEFF JOSLIN, co-chair of the Resilience Building Action Team for the nonpartisan, nonprofit Citizens’ Climate Lobby. Another senate runoff. After a grueling election season, we must now endure the onslaught of four ...

By Guest Columnist JOHN BARROW, former representative of Georgia’s Twelfth Congressional District. Twice in the last six months I’ve heard Andy Young tell an audience that any time the federal government offers to pay you ...

By Guest Columnist SUSAN NEUGENT, President Emeritus of Fernbank Museum. Known in archaic twentieth-century parlance as the unabridged Encyclopedia Britannica on two legs, Jeff Rader will conclude his tenure as a DeKalb County Commissioner at the end ...

By Guest Columnist MICHAEL MINOR, Georgia Health Plan Chief Executive Officer at UnitedHealthcare Community & State Our health is influenced by more than just the care that we receive. In fact, according to the American ...

By Guest Columnist TONY ROBERTS, president and CEO of the Georgia Charter Schools Association. Georgia’s non-profit public charter schools strengthen the overall public school system by offering more children an opportunity to receive high-quality public ...

By Guest Columnist JIM SCHRODER, project manager for Alex Garvin on The Beltline Emerald Necklace report in 2004. On a warm, sunny day on Sept. 10, 2004, Alex Garvin looked out of the helicopter at ...

By Guest Coulmnist ERNEST BROWN, chair of Abundant Housing Atlanta. I’m lucky. I got to grow up in South Dekalb County in the 90s, an enclave of Black excellence that prepared me to succeed in ...

By Guest Columnists MATTHEW PIEPER, executive director of Open Hand Atlanta and KEVIN WOODS, president of the Atlanta Medical Association. After moving to Atlanta in 2020, David, a successful publicist and professor, found himself in ...

By Guest Columnist DAVE PAULE senior consultant at Our Fundraising Search and Georgia State University instructor. It’s hard to avoid political messaging in Georgia during campaign season. This election is no exception, with some of ...

By Guest Columnist ADAM KOVACEVICH, founder of Chamber of Progress. A bill to slash tech companies’ ability to remove harmful posts, including foreign misinformation, came just short of making it through the Georgia legislature this ...

By Guest Columnist TIM ECHOLS, Georgia Public Service Commissioner. In a political year like this one, everyone needs a little escape. Enter Dragon Con and the thousands of costumed characters that invaded downtown Atlanta on Labor ...

By Guest Columnist JENNIFER OWENS, president of HealthMPowers For decades, the issue of food security has driven policy debates, charitable giving, community development and strategies to improve population health. Access to food among under-resourced communities, ...

By Guest Columnist CHARMAINE MINNIEFIELD, activist and visual artist. My great-grandmother’s name was Ora Lee Fuqua. She was born on a sharecropping plantation in Central City, Ky. We were owned by the Fuqua family, a ...

By Guest Columnist ERIC ROBBINS, President and CEO of the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta. I have been a Jewish community builder for decades. I have lived through countless episodes of war, famine, natural disaster ...

By Guest Columnist TED TERRY, DeKalb County District 6 Commissioner. No matter where you live, someone in your neighborhood feels the housing crunch. It could be the single mother of two down the street, the ...

By Guest Columnist MATTHEW RAO, chair of BeltLine Rail Now. I voted for More MARTA, not less MARTA. And like me, so many of you did too. More MARTA, the 40-year program funded by a ...

By Derek Prall Hi everyone! My name is Derek Prall. You might not recognize the name as it doesn’t appear on many bylines here, but I’ve been working in the background of SR for a ...

By Guest Columnist MELITA EASTERS, executive director and founding chair of Georgia WIN List, the state’s leading PAC for electing pro-choice Democratic women. Georgia voters who care about reproductive freedom have the opportunity to do ...