The timing is perfect for “Atlanta Record Stores: An Oral History,” a new book from longtime music journalist Chad Radford.
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With so much unknown about training center plan, everyone’s a protester
With all the heat these days on who’s right and wrong about Atlanta’s public safety training center, it’s remarkable how little we know about what the plan actually is.
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Pedestrian advocate’s injury in Buckhead hospital zone is same old unsafe story
The relatively good news is that this is a story of broken teeth and bones, and not an obituary – this time.
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How landmarking a Midtown park could prevent a repeat of a historical mistake
Landmarking Pershing Point Park could prevent the fate of the historic buildings around it.
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City Hall in confusion over training center advisory committee vacancies and administration
Membership, vacancies and administration of the public safety training center’s advisory group are all causing City Hall confusion and mystery.
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MARTA kills Clifton Corridor rail option, moves ahead on bus alternatives
MARTA has killed the rail option for its Clifton Corridor project and moving forward with two “bus rapid transit” alternatives.
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Saving a historic Sweet Auburn sidewalk sign
A Gate City Drug Store tile sign embedded in the sidewalk has somehow survived largely intact after more than a century.
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Gun rights group aims to change Georgia’s assault law, gets defense attorneys’ support
GA2A’s agenda includes a totally unsexy and downright obscure item about restoring the common-law definition of assault, which is winning praises from criminal defense attorneys.
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Atlanta Botanical Garden’s BeltLine self-storage plan is blasted by a review committee
The Atlanta Botanical Garden’s plan to swap one Atlanta BeltLine self-storage facility for another was raked over the coals Jan. 18 by a review committee.
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Atlanta History Center’s Stone Mountain film is right medium for a myth-busting message
“I think it’s an innovative approach to the museum working outside its walls,” said the Atlanta History Center president and CEO.
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A model airplane club defends the Atlanta forest, but is targeted by destructive protests
As controversy over the “Defend the Atlanta Forest” protest movement escalates into terrorism charges and civil liberties infringements, you’d be forgiven for having no idea that a big piece of it revolves around model airplanes.
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Introducing the Stanley Awards for Georgia’s worst suppressions of First Amendment and open government
I’m proud to announce the debut of the Stanley Suppression Awards for Georgia’s worst attempts to stifle First Amendment activity and cloud government transparency.
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Protester terrorism charges come amid legal battle over other arrests of demonstrators, journalists
By John Ruch Concerns about biased policing of public safety training center protests sparked by remarks from the Atlanta Police Department’s (APD) second-in-command fit into a bigger picture that includes a pending lawsuit alleging illegal arrests of protesters and targeting at least two journalists documenting them. The lawsuit’s allegations include retaliatory arrests for engaging in […]
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A close-up look at the Atlanta Botanical Garden’s expansion map
The Atlanta Botanical Garden expansion is one of those acts of Atlanta’s political gods that gets presented from their heavenly view as coloring in relatively blank spots on the map. Down at the human scale, however, there are many details in flux and lives in transition.
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Cabbagetown’s historic mill gets a much-needed rehab – but who covers the tab?
Scaffolding has risen like a banner for historic preservation on a smokestack at Cabbagetown’s old Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills, marking the long-awaited start of rehab work on one of Atlanta’s most significant structures.
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A new disability rights and justice group aims to unite activists across the South
A new Georgia-based disability rights and justice group aims to unite advocates in 14 states in the South, a region notorious for inequities and discrimination.
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With a new General Assembly elected, beware of bills assaulting the First Amendment
With a newly elected Georgia General Assembly set to meet in January, it’s not too early to start warning it away from the kind of First Amendment assault we saw in last year’s session.
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A Virginia-Highland preschool plan becomes a proxy for BeltLine and preservation debates
A Virginia-Highland preschool’s expansion plan has sparked one of those neighborhood battles that is about way more than just that site.
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The message of Central State Hospital’s endangered historic buildings
Renewed concerns about the historic campus at Milledgeville’s Central State Hospital (CHS) are a reminder that public buildings embody the government’s opinion of the people who use them.
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How a gun-ban debate is also challenging Rivian, property taxes and other uses of public land
A gun-ban debate has become a legal precedent on a bigger question: Does the public indeed control public land and public money?
