Her nickname was “Mayor of Summerhill” for a reason.
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Freedom Park working on new plan for its 200+ Atlanta acres. Your thoughts wanted.
This is the first big review of the park in a generation
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North Georgia candidates testify to conservative credentials in congressional runoffs
Trump, COVID-19 and conservative credentials got the most attention.
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Georgians can arrest each other. But should they be able to?
A fire that started in Brunswick over citizen’s arrest has reached the Georgia state Capitol.
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Atlanta mayor, City Council endorse police “transformation.” Details and timeline yet to come.
There’s been a tension: Atlanta leaders do want police, but they want a “transformation” too.
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Georgia Legislature goes home. Here’s a wrap of health care and criminal justice bills.
Limits on businesses’ COVID-19 liability, a micro-Medicaid expansion and more.
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Hate crimes proposal drives Georgia legislators apart — but consensus may be near
Not all the splits in the Legislature are partisan.
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‘Defund the police’ didn’t pop up overnight. A metro Atlanta activist explains.
“Millions of children go to school where there are many cops, but not one nurse.”
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Voices in Georgia streets demand change. That usually takes a while.
If these protests “feel different,” it’s also true that change is liable to be slow.
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Atlanta church, bar, cemetery joining national historic registry
The listing preserves the stories of each site.
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City of Atlanta draft budget avoids furloughs — and most new hiring
Atlanta city departments will be asked how they might cut budgets by 5-10%.
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East Point Mayor: Make sure development happens “with” residents, not “to” them
“What we do have is a real belief in the fact that things can be different.”
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Georgia rolls out $1 million welcome mat for Macy’s Midtown tech hub
Georgia wouldn’t have offered $1 million if they didn’t think it was necessary, said a state leader.
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Cutting your budget? So will Georgia, Fulton, Atlanta and other local governments.
Layoffs, furloughs and some shorter school years were the result the last time the economy fell off a cliff …
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Georgia has COVID testing capacity, leaders urge people to get tested
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp at the Capitol on April 27. Credit: screenshot By Maggie Lee Georgians who have even mild COVID-19 symptoms can and should get tested, say Georgia’s governor and its top public health official. “If you’re feeling bad, if you have those symptoms that I went over … body pain, cough, fever … […]
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A former surgeon general wants this to be the last pandemic that’s worse for black Americans
Even work puts black and brown people at higher risk of sickness of now.
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Thousands call about adopting Atlanta pets during pandemic
In this far-from-normal time, people are seeking pets.
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Fulton courts aren’t acting on evictions — for now
There’s more demand for rental assistance than nonprofits can handle.
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216-acre southeast Atlanta forest headed for permanent preservation
It’s bigger than Cascade Nature Preserve or Piedmont Park.
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COVID-19 may cast shade on sunny local government budgets
“We just have no idea at this time what sort of expenses we’re going to have associated with this emergency.”
