Category: Guest Column

By BOB DICKINSON, founder and president of Dickinson Partners Group and STEAM Sports Foundation.  Last summer the film “Imagining the Indian: The Fight Against Native American Mascoting” won the top award at the Morehouse Human Rights Film Festival. The film also won a host of other accolades at festivals throughout the U.S. and Canada. It is […]

By Guest Columnist SUSAN PERCY, an Atlanta journalist and former editor of Georgia Trend Magazine. I was already outraged by the Georgia Senate’s failure this past session to give a committee vote to the bipartisan mental health legislation, HB 520, that passed the House by a 163-3 margin. The measure was a follow-up to the […]

By Guest Columnist JAY MILLER, a semi-retired lawyer who lives in the Inman Park area. The Beltline is Atlanta’s jewel. It epitomizes how a human construct can complement nature and how people from all quarters can enjoy themselves side-by-side in harmony. If there is a better example of diversity anywhere, I have yet to find […]

By Guest Columnist BARRY BRANCH JR., a Cooledge Avenue resident of 25 years. In a little over a month, many current and former residents of Cooledge Avenue, a small, close-knit street with just over thirty homes located in Virginia Highland at the point where the neighborhood borders Midtown, The Beltline and Piedmont Park, will be […]

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 every monument in the world and found that few portrayed his faith.” said Fincher.  The subject of the commission was […]

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, affordable child care can be a big part of the solution.  The high price of child care has long been […]

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 works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of its forms — […]

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 little place with a long history of losses. The lumber industry dwindled, fires decimated part of the town, and the […]

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 Memorial Hospital and are members of SNIS, supporting its Get Ahead of Stroke campaign to improve systems of care. As […]

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 creation of real walkability for in-town Atlanta has truly revitalized this city.  Nevertheless, some basic issues need to be addressed.  […]

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 textile artists are using their creative skills for social activism, and telling stories of marginalized people and their pain. QuiltCon, […]

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 across Georgia are racing to conserve the gopher frog (Lithobates capito), an amphibian native to the Southeast threatened by the […]

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 ready for a time travel adventure? I can only take three with me, so let me know fast. Come on, […]

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 3, the first of two nuclear reactors under construction in Georgia, and the only nuclear plant under construction in the […]

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 is ready to renew its commitment to transit and reduce its reliance on privately-operated automobiles. The good news is that […]

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 it was common knowledge that the move had been in the works for years, when the official word came that […]

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 it is scarce. Connecting to MARTA’s Buckhead station and PATH400, the nation’s first transit-oriented park will rejoin areas split by […]

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. Cancer is Georgia’s second-leading cause of death even though many of its devastating effects are preventable or controllable – sometimes […]

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 hold a historic 82 seats for the first time since the Supreme Court of the United States set aside a […]

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 table issues cost the Republican support among our state’s most powerful constituency – older voters. I belong to that constituency. […]