By Guest Columnist DEPRIEST WADDY, president and CEO of the Community Foundation for Northeast Georgia. Four years ago, artist Kathy Fincher was asked to create a monument of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. “I researched ...

By Guest Columnist ELLYN COCHRAN, president and chief executive officer of Quality Care for Children As workforce recruitment and retention remain a challenge in our post-pandemic reality, it is clear that ensuring access to quality, ...

by Guest Columnist DAVID KYLER, co-founder and director of the Center for a Sustainable Coast. “The point is, ladies and gentlemen, that greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed ...

By ALEX SCOTT, of the Okefenokee Protection Alliance. Tupper Lake, N.Y., is a small village that’s located within the boundaries of Adirondack Park. In 2020, the population was 3,282. The town was always a hardscrabble ...

By Guest Columnists JONATHAN A. GROSSBERG, MD, MBA, FAANS and C. MICHAEL CAWLEY, MD, FAANS on behalf of the Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery (SNIS). Both perform mechanical thrombectomy procedures at Emory University Hospital and Grady ...

By Guest Columnist JUDY DIGGS KEENAN First let me make my position clear—I love the BeltLine.  Almost daily, I am on it running, walking to the grocery, or taking my dogs to Piedmont Park.  The ...

By Guest Columnist MICHELLE HISKEY, an Atlanta-based journalist and writing coach. Vulnerable children of color are benefiting through a patchwork of quilters from all over the world visiting Atlanta next week. They arrive as more ...

By Guest Columnist ZACK FOX LOEHLE, a writer based in Atlanta. His work is often about nature, history, and culture and has appeared in Mental Floss, Curtis’s Botanical Magazine, Explore Georgia and other outlets. Scientists ...

By Guest Columnist BO HIERS, a semi-retired marketing officer in the reinsurance industry and super-proud grandfather of his beloved grandson, Fletcher. Epic news, Sunday School class! I have access to a perfectly functioning Way Back Machine! Who’s ...

By Guest Columnist PATTY DURAND, president and founder of Cool Planet Solutions and a candidate for the Georgia Public Service Commission District 2. As spring approaches, so does the in-service date for Plant Vogtle’s Unit ...

By Guest Columnist HANS KLEIN, an associate professor in the School of Public Policy at Georgia Tech. Atlanta is at a turning point for transit. With explosive growth in population, employment and traffic, our city ...

By Guest Columnist MARK ALDREN, a member of the team that launched CNN and past president and current board member of the Atlanta Press Club. It feels like the loss of an old friend. Although ...

By ANTHONY RODRIGUEZ, executive director of the HUB404 Conservancy What is HUB404? Simply stated, it is a nine-acre, half-mile greenspace that will “cap” Georgia 400, adding additional park and recreation space in an area where ...

By Guest Columnist LYNN DURHAM, Ed.D., President and CEO of Georgia CORE and a three-time cancer survivor. It’s unlikely that there are many of us who have not been touched by cancer in some way. ...

By Guest Columnist MELITA EASTERS, executive director of Georgia WIN List, a grassroots political action committee dedicated to recruiting, training, supporting, electing, and re-electing Democratic women. As the Georgia General Assembly convenes Monday, women will ...

By Guest Columnist NAN ORROCK, Georgia State Senator. Now that the runoff election dust has settled and Senator Raphael Warnock is returning to Washington, it’s clear that Herschel Walker’s inability to focus on the kitchen ...

By Guest Columnist ANDREA LAUER RICE, president of the Hungarian American Coalition and founder of the Atlanta Hungarian Festival. This fall, Millennium Gate Park became home to the first-of-its-kind female freedom fighter statue – a ...

By Guest Columnist ROBERT KERR, audit and assurance partner at Deloitte and Touche. For some years now, many organizations have embraced community-minded environmental, social and governance (ESG) initiatives. These initiatives aim to improve the world ...

By Guest Columnist BOB WILLIS, chief investment officer at Willis Investment Counsel.  We do not know exactly what Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell is thinking or how he evaluates our nation’s current spike in inflation. ...

By Guest Columnist KIMBERLY BEAUDIN, president and CEO of the College Football Hall of Fame. As the first female CEO in the College Football Hall of Fame’s 71-year history, it’s important to reflect on my ...