Category: Columns
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Prioritizing affordable, accessible health care will help Georgia recover, rebuild
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 rates across the state, are driving a prolonged COVID-19 impact.
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A founder of Sandy Springs’ privatized government advises Buckhead cityhood backers
We wouldn’t be talking about Buckhead cityhood if it wasn’t for the landmark 2005 incorporation of its north metro neighbor Sandy Springs amid similar tensions over political unity and government services.
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Caught off guard before his campaign begins, Perdue launches primary bid
The last thing he wanted to do, former Sen. David Perdue told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution last week, was run a campaign. Yet here he is.
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CPA ID’s companies that funded lawmakers who restricted voting access
Corporations that funded Georgia lawmakers who voted to restrict voting access are under increasing scrutiny that goes beyond national headlines about Coca-Cola Co. and Delta Air Lines reversing their positions in the face of public outrage.
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‘Belfast’ – an episodic 1969 movie with forced nostalgia
Kenneth Branagh has bathed his memory film “Belfast” in a nostalgic patina of black-and white. Alas, that’s not enough to give his heartfelt picture the emotional heft he intends.
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Seeking greater green equity – Woodruff Foundation and Park Pride
Thanks to a longstanding partnership between Park Pride and the Robert W. Woodruff Foundation, Atlanta is creating a more equitable park system that will better serve the city’s lower-income communities.
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Historically Black Seminary appoints youngest president
Matthew Wesly Williams is the 11th president in the school’s 60-plus-year history. By Allison Joyner Last month, President Rev. Matthew Wesly Williams was officially celebrated as the 11th president of the Interdenominational Theological Center (ITC). At 45, he is the youngest to hold the position. “I consider it a homecoming,” Williams said. “It’s a place […]
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Holiday Road: A half-mile holiday extravaganza with lights, music, cheer
By Hannah E. Jones After winding down a long, dark road nestled outside the city, the all-encompassing trees open up to a vast landscape filled with dazzling gold, blue, red and green lights. Leave your real-world worries at the door and let Holiday Road transport you into a world reminiscent of holiday films. Co-founders Bobby […]
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Grief in the holidays: Managing loss during COVID-19
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 report from Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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New leadership at Atlanta’s City Hall bodes well for closer collaboration
Following the results of the Nov. 30 run-off election, a drastically different Atlanta City Hall will take office in January.
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A closer look at Buckhead cityhood’s claims of public safety consulting and business deals
Bolstering the case for Buckhead cityhood are its advocacy group’s detailed claims of consulting public safety experts and cutting deals to attract new businesses contingent on the secession. But some of those alleged contacts — including a national law firm and the famous former head of the New York and L.A. police departments — say they have had no such talks, and most other claims could not be verified.
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Georgia companies lead, trail in disclosing political spending: CPA index
Five of Georgia’s S&P 500 companies are among the most transparent in the nation about their political spending. Three companies are in the bottom tier, according to an annual index.
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A governor’s race like none before it takes shape, long before the vote
Considering how long the political world of Georgia has been waiting for Stacey Abrams to show her hand, she picked a curious day to announce that she’s in the 2022 governor’s race.
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Local Daffodil Project’s journey to plant 1.5 million daffodils honoring Holocaust victims
By Hannah E. Jones “How can anyone who remembers stay silent?” The 2004 quote from Holocaust survivor, activist and Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel encapsulates the mission of the Atlanta-based Daffodil Project. The Daffodil Project is an international initiative to plant 1.5 million daffodils in remembrance of the children who lost their lives in the Holocaust. […]
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‘The Power of the Dog’ – a semi-mythic Western movie
In many ways, Jane Campion’s new movie, “The Power of the Dog,” is like a psychological Western from the 1950s. If it had been made back then, it might have starred Kirk Douglas (in full curled-lip mode) and a quivery Anthony Perkins.
