The board of Atlanta Public Schools will not renew its contract with Superintendent Meria Carstarphen.
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The ATL transit board names Chris Tomlinson executive director
The close connection among agencies is the latest example of the state of Georgia trying to address cross-county metro Atlanta traffic snarls by means other more untolled car lanes.
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With Georgia gambling legislation likely, no agreement yet on the spoils
When it comes to gaming, the odds are always in the house’s favor — so when the government taxes the house, it’s a win for the government. But wrangling over the not-yet-existent spoils will lower the odds against any gaming bill passing in Georgia next year.
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Atlanta sells airport bonds, but Council has some questions on how it was done
Atlanta City Council OK’d the sale of about $700 million in bonds this week on behalf of the airport, and the market considers the airport just about as safe as U.S. Treasury bonds. But members of Atlanta City Council had some questions about when the bond information was put together and who did it.
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Divided Fulton board approves hotel tax breaks for Buckhead, O4W
Hotels in Buckhead and Old Fourth Ward are on track for property tax discounts worth millions, but they divided the members of Fulton County’s economic development board.
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Two months after announcing it, Fort Mac board votes to approve building sale for FDA
An announcement from Fort Mac in June was clear: the agency was making a $17 million building sale. Federal scientists and staff would move into a disused command building.
That sale has just now gotten the 10-1 approval, with one abstention, of the board of the McPherson Implementing Local Redevelopment Authority.
But the board still has yet to take any action on the question of a developer who has in sight the bulk of the roughly 144 acres of the former fort.
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Fulton Industrial-area facility that uses ethylene oxide has a meeting coming up with Georgia officials.
The state says a Fulton Industrial-area company has shown interest in expanding its business of sterilizing medical supplies. But the company uses ethylene oxide, the same toxic gas that’s got people in Smyrna and other places demanding the shutdown of similar facilities.
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Two new At-Promise centers to break ground
It’s “changing lives one by one, we’re at-promise, not at-risk. And that’s a great thing,” T.J. Jones said.
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96 students to start Atlanta Tech program backed by corporations in a city that needs them
A total 96 students this fall are going to join a new Atlanta Technical College program backed by some of the city’s biggest employers. And if the school’s statistics hold, graduates will be in great professional demand soon.
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Georgia’s new Business Court gets first judge
About a year before Georgia State-wide Business Court starts accepting cases, members of the state House and Senate have confirmed Walter Davis as its first judge.
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Fulton is undervaluing some commercial properties; so now what?
The people who are supposed to set the taxable value of Fulton’s buildings are “outgunned” by commercial property owners and hired experts, says a county commissioner.
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BeltLine recruits new COO from HUD
Reuben Brooks, previously a U.S. Department of House and Urban Development leader in the southeast, is joining the BeltLine as COO.
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Decarceration activists bring message to Fulton County
Fulton County’s commissioners are open about the overcrowding crisis at the county’s main jail. Activists have a solution: stop what they call “over-incarceration” in the county.
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Atlanta schools leader: Poverty at the heart of issues facing students
“You can see that white students … they’re 4.5 grade levels ahead of black students and it’s tied to poverty,” APS Superintendent Meria Carstarphen said.
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Viewpoint: Georgia has too many counties — and other jurisdictions — to run as well as it could
All this complexity makes government hard to understand, hard to oversee. And in a lot of ways, it doesn’t serve the people all that well. Still, there are yet ways to make local governments work better together.
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Atlanta joins Rockefeller program to jumpstart investment in poorest pockets of city
The idea is to make sure these investments lift all boats, “not just the yachts.”
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Developer property tax breaks in hot Atlanta neighborhoods raising questions
Atlanta and Fulton may be winning valuable jobs and investments via property tax discounts to developers; or they may be giving away something they don’t have to.
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Fort Mac redevelopment leader resigns
The public authority that’s overseeing the redevelopment of Fort McPherson has a new interim executive director. The turnover at the top comes amid media reports of a serious conflict between the authority and a key contractor, plus revelations of cash flow problems.
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State regulators order up more renewable energy from Georgia Power
Georgia Power will add new renewable energy to its portfolio under a plan unanimously approved Tuesday by state regulators. The company also got approval to wind down more coal-burning units.
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Records show Tyler Perry Studios interest in the rest of Fort Mac
Tyler Perry Studios is interested in exercising a right to make an offer on the approximate 145 acres of the former Fort McPherson site that it doesn’t already own, according to official text messages from earlier this year.
But so is a developer that’s been publicly working on a plan for about two years.
