By Guest Columnist HOWARD S. WERTHEIMER, executive vice president and chief operating officer at the Piedmont Park Conservancy. A number of years ago, when I was leading the Office of Capital Planning and Space Management at ...
By Guest Columnist GIL FRANK, co-founder and executive director of Historic Westside Gardens In the affordable housing crisis that brews in Atlanta, lower-income people and marginalized populations suffer most. Historic Westside Gardens focuses on food justice, ...
By Guest Columnists STEVE GOTTLIEB and BILL BOLLING, executive director, board member (respectively) of Atlanta Legal Aid Children in foster care throughout Georgia – and those of us fighting on their behalf to improve their lives ...
By Guest Columnist NICK STEPHENS, an Atlanta writer and parks advocate Earlier this year, over 15 years after it was first proposed, construction on the Westside Park at Bellwood Quarry finally began. The promise of the ...
By Guest Columnist BETTY WILLIS, president of the Clifton Corridor Transportation Management Association As far back as 1961, transportation planners at the predecessor of the Atlanta Regional Commission had the foresight to anticipate where MARTA rail ...
By KEVIN GREINER, president and CEO of Gas South If you’re a mature (i.e., middle-aged) music fan like I am, and you happened to show up at Music Midtown last month, you probably asked yourself: What ...
By Guest Columnist SANJAY PATEL, director of special projects at Soccer in the Streets It’s Saturday morning in late August and a soccer team from the Garden Hills neighborhood is aboard a MARTA train heading southbound. ...
By Guest Columnist PATTY DURAND, co-chair of BeltLine Rail Now You’d think if Atlanta leaders had a way to extend reliable rapid transit to dozens of neighborhoods, connecting them to existing MARTA rail at multiple points ...
By Guest Columnist TAYLOR DUNCAN, founding commissioner/director of the Alternative Baseball organization Hello everyone! My name is Taylor Duncan! I am 23 years of age from Dallas, and was diagnosed on the autism spectrum at the ...
By Guest Columnist ED CHANG, founding executive director of redefinED atlanta Editor's note: A full statement from the author on the decision by the Atlanta Board of Education to not renew the contract of Superintendent Meria ...
By Guest Columnist KEVIN H. POSEY, who writes about transportation and has served on related boards in the Washington region. He moved to Atlanta in 2017. Atlanta’s BeltLine is perhaps the city’s best-known landmark. As with ...
By Guest Columnist AUSTIN HACKNEY, government affairs director, Home Builders Association of Georgia For generations, home ownership has provided individuals and families with a path towards economic prosperity, and a strong residential construction industry is known ...
By Guest Columnist BILL VANDERKLOOT, a film director/producer who attended the event The late Tip O’Neill once said, “all politics is local.” As a corollary, I believe that all history is personal. That is until it ...
By Guest Columnist DEBRA EDELSON, executive director of Grove Park Foundation If our Atlanta region continues to grow as predicted, we will have tens of thousands of new residents move in town over the next 10 ...
By Guest Columnist RYAN GRAVEL, AICP, founder of Sixpitch, Inc. The latest tale in the slow destruction of Atlanta’s iconic tree canopy might seem like a bizarre aberration. When you see it in context of generational ...
By Guest Columnist DOUG JOINER, a lifelong child and adolescent advocate In January 2012, I was introduced to Safe Routes to School in metro Atlanta through the National Association of Chronic Disease Directors via a Kaiser ...
By FRANK FERNANDEZ, senior vice president of community development of the Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation The Westside is indeed On the Rise. It is not perfect and long-time residents are rightly and deeply concerned ...
By Guest Columnist ANDREA L. BOONE, Atlanta City Councilmember and daughter of the late civil rights leader Rev. Joseph E. Boone In 2008, the city named the north border of Rodney Cook Sr. Peace Park for ...
By Guest Columnist JACKSON FAW, a writer, actor and activist based in Atlanta On July 1, against promises made to downtown Atlanta hotels and businesses that oppose the plan, the Atlanta City Council rushed a vote ...
By Guest Columnist MELITA EASTERS, founding chair and executive director of Georgia’s Win List U.S. Women’s Soccer team co-captain Megan Rapinoe scored two goals during the June 28 match against France, giving her team a stunning ...
