Atlanta-based Southern Co. may be an early example of a power producer criticized by environmentalists for its pledge to comply with a provision of the Paris climate accord. Meanwhile, Joe Biden and the Democrats are trying to devise a climate platform to take on President Trump – one that satisfies the party’s centrist and progressive views on fossil fuels.
Category: Columns
Posted inMaggie Lee
Atlanta church, bar, cemetery joining national historic registry
The listing preserves the stories of each site.
Posted inSean Keenan
Atlanta missed the mark during the protests, but police and demonstrators can learn from the turmoil
Where we go from here remains uncertain, but there’s something comforting and promising about the prospect of an APD officer ditching their riot shield and gas mask and tear gas grenades to wield instead a picket sign emblazoned with “Black Lives Matter.” Until then, though, the morbid song of squad car sirens and clicking handcuffs shall ring too loud.
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Krishna Festival of Chariots – June 1 2019 – Photos by Kelly Jordan
Note – Continuing a series about annual Atlanta events missing this year which we hope will return in 2021. Kelly
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Project Light shines bright as Atlantans seek to drive out hate, darkness
As we emerge from one of the darkest weekends in Atlanta’s history, a light is shining bright.
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Cabbagetown Reunion Festival – June 1 2019 – Photos by Kelly Jordan
Note – Continuing a series about annual Atlanta events missing this year which we hope will return in 2021. Kelly
Posted inColumns
‘Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind’ – documentary features her life, not death
So much has happened this past weekend that writing about a Natalie Wood documentary seems a bit beside the point.
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Remembering the launch of CNN on its 40th anniversary
By Guest Columnist MARK ALDREN, a member of the team that launched CNN and past president/board member, Atlanta Press Club
Skeptics, and there were plenty of them at the time, called it the “Chicken Noodle Network.” But 40 years ago, Atlanta was the birthplace of a revolution in news reporting. On June 1st, 1980, Ted Turner launched the Cable News Network, CNN. It was a bold experiment no one had dared try before – 24- hour news, seven days a week, beamed skyward to orbiting satellites.
Posted inSean Keenan
Housing authority aims to convert historic Westside building into affordable residences
Atlanta Housing officials took steps on Wednesday that are expected to pave the way for a historic Westside building to be reimagined as an affordable housing complex for people experiencing homelessness, military veterans, and young people aging out of foster care.
Posted inColumns
A crowded summer calendar, as the nation struggles to get back to business
No summer in our lifetimes has been awaited so eagerly as this one. But their expectations for relief this summer don’t hang on much.
Posted inMaggie Lee
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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Rural Georgia at risk of falling behind amid philanthropic pandemic relief efforts
Rural Georgia is at risk of getting left even further behind the state’s populated regions amid the pandemic. One key factor is that many philanthropies won’t donate to local groups that can’t produce audited statements and IRS designations. Bambi Hayes-Brown is seeing it first hand in Southwest Georgia.
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Local leaders boldly say Atlanta is THE center for global health
Several key economic development leaders are making a new claim: Atlanta is THE center for global health. That’s a step up from what we used to say – that Atlanta is “a” center for global health.
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Illumine – Oakland Cemetery 2016-19 – Photos by Kelly Jordan
Note – another in a series about beloved events we are missing this year, and look forward to returning in 2021 – Kelly
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Decatur Arts Festival 2019 – Photos by Kelly Jordan
Note – another in a series about beloved events we are missing this year, and look forward to returning in 2021 – Kelly
Posted inKelly Jordan, Media, Seen in Atlanta
Atlanta Jazz Festival – 2017 and 2019 – Photos by Kelly Jordan
Note – another in a series about beloved events we are missing this year, and look forward to reviving in 2021 – Kelly
Posted inColumns
‘The Trip to Greece’ – Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon banter with Greece as a backdrop
Greece is the word – or it would be if its magnificent scenery could get a word in edgewise as Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon chatter and babble non-stop through the fourth and final leg of their meandering series in “The Trip to Greece.”
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COVID-19 makes ‘Think Globally, Act Locally’ more than a check-box exercise
By Guest Columnists ANNA WESTERSTAHL STENPORT and SEBNEM OZKAN, of the Atlanta Global Studies Center at Georgia Institute of Technology
Universities and colleges, as local and global anchor institutions, are poised to educate the next generation of global citizens and empower metro Atlanta’s ‘new’ global agenda through the common international language of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals.
Posted inSean Keenan
Atlanta officials consider more than doubling development impact fees
Atlanta City Council leaders and other city staff are hashing out a plan to update the so-called “impact fee program,” which utilizes funds collected from developers and directs them toward public services, such as infrastructure projects.
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MomoCon 2018 – Photos by Kelly Jordan
Note: Continuing a series about events that will be missed this year, here are displays from 2018 about the fabulous, colorful, delightful MomoCon https://www.momocon.com). – Kelly
