By Guest Columnist CARDEN WYCKOFF, on behalf of the Save Share Peachtree Coalition Organizing Committee At 9:55 a.m. on March 10, minutes after receiving official notice that the Peachtree Shared Space demonstration project was being ...
By Guest Columnist MANDY MAHONEY. U.S. program director of the Regulatory Assistance Project The South has long been defined by its heat and humidity, so much so that bragging about the heat has even become something ...
By Guest Columnist SAM WILLIAMS, Georgia State University professor of practice and former Metro Atlanta Chamber president Metropolitan Atlanta’s universities and hospitals (“Eds and Meds”), with more than 340,000 jobs, make a larger contribution to the ...
By Guest Columnist AISHA YAQOOB MAHMOOD, executive director of Asian American Advocacy Fund Society teaches us that education is the most powerful tool in providing people with the knowledge to better their lives. What if barrier ...
By Guest Columnist DAVIS FOX, retired city planner who has been active in DeKalb County politics and government for many years For now, the legislation to allow for the secession of the Buckhead neighborhood has stalled ...
By Guest Columnist STACEY EVANS, Democratic state representative for portions of Atlanta COVID-19 has intensified countless challenges that Georgians have faced both before and during the pandemic. Among those challenges is the critical lack of broadband ...
By Guest Columnist MIKE DOBBINS, Georgia Tech professor of practice and former Atlanta planning commissioner Over the last couple of years, housing costs have shot up in Atlanta. Already rising before, it is now difficult for ...
By Guest Columnist SARA PATENAUDE, chair of the Coalition for a Diverse DeKalb On a recent freezing night in January, two unhoused residents found refuge in DeKalb County Fire Station No. 3, located in Avondale Estates. ...
By Guest Columnist DAN REUTER, CEO of Reuter Strategy, an urban and regional planning firm Georgia and most states have a history of pandemic influenza planning. President George W. Bush signed the first national Pandemic Influenza ...
By Guest Columnist JESSICA DUPEE, president, American Marketing Assoc., Atlanta This time last year, there was cautious optimism that the new year – 2021 – would bring a return to normalcy thanks to vaccines and Covid-19 ...
By Guest Columnist JEFFREY STEPAKOFF, founding executive director, Georgia Film Academy There are so many reasons to be proud of our state. But I’d like to share with you something that Georgia has quietly done which ...
By Guest Columnist ANTONIO MOLINA, chairman, Georgia Hispanic Chamber of Commerce As a U.S. Navy Veteran, a community leader here in the state of Georgia, and current chairman of the board for the Georgia Hispanic ...
By Guest Columnist LIZ COYLE, executive director, Georgia Watch More than a year into the pandemic, Georgia is still facing many pressing challenges. The highly contagious Delta variant followed by the Omicron variant, and low vaccination ...
By Guest Columnist GIL FRANK, grief educator At the start of the traditional holiday season, the total number of people who had died from COVID-19 in the United States exceeded 768,000, according to the Nov. 19 ...
By Guest Columnist BRIAN McGOWAN, president of the The Centennial Yards Co. Returning to Atlanta after spending nearly three years in the Pacific Northwest, I see a city now facing the similar opportunities and challenges Seattle ...
By Guest Columnist Dr. PREETI JAGGI, a pediatrician based in Atlanta As a pediatrician, I’ve seen firsthand how the burden of pollution and climate change can disproportionately fall on our children.
By Guest Columnist BO HIERS, a semi-retired marketing officer in the reinsurance industry and super-proud grandfather of his beloved grandson, Fletcher Thanksgiving week is – with apologies to a popular song about a different holiday – ...
By Guest Columnists JIM KULSTAD, LORI LELAND-KIRK AND CAROLYN H. RADER, environmental advocate, urban planners and friends of Alycen Whiddon Unsung visionary, landscape architect and urban planner, Alycen Whiddon left a permanent legacy in the urban ...
By Guest Columnist MELINDA SYLVESTER, president of the Greater Georgia Black Chamber of Commerce Across the 50 states, there are 2.6 million Black-owned businesses that generate more than $138 billion in revenue annually. Georgia is among ...