The Big Three worker training programs – re-skilling, up-skilling and now, out-skilling – may best be addressed by credentialed, online classes that students have found – even as policymakers are focused on tuition-free and debt-forgiveness campus-based programs.
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‘Portrait of a Lady on Fire’ – Céline Sciamma’s ‘superb’ movie casts a spell
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The lady on fire in Céline Sciamma’s superb film, “Portrait of a Lady on Fire,” may not be the lady in the portrait. It could just as easily be the lady who paints the portrait.
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Time is now to advance LGBTQ rights at state, federal levels
By Guest Columnist GILBERT YEREMIAN, a business owner in Atlanta
As an ally to the LGBTQ community and a business owner who knows the importance of valuing a diverse workforce, I’m hopeful 2020 will bring nondiscrimination protections for LGBTQ Georgians in employment, housing, and public spaces.
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Atlanta lawmaker: $100 million affordable housing bond should help city buy land for residences
When Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms last month called for the city to issue $100 million in bonds to propel affordable housing initiatives, local leaders and housing professionals began brainstorming how the money might best be spent.
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Are we so bad, after all? What lists can tell us and what they can’t
What’s more fun, journalistically, than a list? While we’re waiting for qualifying week to end here in Georgia, and fretting over our supplies of hand sanitizer, let’s take a brief dive into how lists get made, and what they really tell us about ourselves.
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Confronting our past and present in serendipitous Montgomery, Selma trip
What a journey!
Our 2020 Leadership Atlanta class on Saturday traveled to Montgomery and Selma to confront the more sordid aspects of our nation’s shameful past and present – while asking ourselves the question civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. asked 53 years ago: “Where do we go from here?”
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Coal ash settlement in N.C. a guideline for Georgia – bury in lined basin or recycle
A legal settlement over coal ash in North Carolina has resulted in the type of outcome Georgia environmentalists would like to reach here – excavation of coal ash from all of a power company’s unlined basins, and placement in an onsite lined landfill or recycled for industrial use.
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Georgia House panel moves for more audits on film tax credit, expansion to film music
Georgia will forego something like $1 billion this year in the form of tax credits to TV and movie-makers.
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‘Greed’ – a romp through the abuses of the rich and infamous
You could say Gordon Gekko was wrong. “Greed” isn’t just good.
It’s hilarious – and ultimately quite sobering.
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Addressing Atlanta’s health disparities through community service approaches
By Guest Columnist JENNIFER S. SINGH, associate professor of sociology at Georgia Tech
Heart disease is the leading cause of death in Georgia, and in Atlanta it disproportionately affects black and low-income communities. To address heart health disparities, Georgia Tech college students are getting involved through a community service-learning program at Georgia Tech in collaboration with American Heart Association and Grove Park Foundation.
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By rejecting Integral settlement, AHA will spend money on lawyers instead of housing
Update: The Atlanta Housing Authority met on Feb. 26 after this column had been published, and it voted unanimously to approve an amended settlement with Integral and its partners. After the vote, AHA Chair Chris Edwards said: “Hopefully we’ll get out of the lawsuit business. It stops millions of dollars currently being spent on expensive litigation.”
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Collins loses no time rejecting Trump’s overture to be national intelligence director
In the end it was just a reality show too far, the idea that U.S. Rep. Doug Collins could be lured away from a confrontation with U.S. Sen. Kelly Loeffler with the sourest plum in Washington, the job of national intelligence director.
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Unmet demand for higher-priced units adds to lack of affordable housing options in Buckhead
Higher-income folks play a part in the affordable housing discussion because there is an unmet demand for rental apartments at their price points in at least one area that was studied – Buckhead.
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Questions linger over which way Georgia’s criminal justice system will trend
“Justice” is in the eye of the beholder
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‘The Traitor’ – a true Mafia thriller that spans decades
In many ways, “The Traitor” is the movie “The Irishman” should’ve been. It, too, is made by an aging master – 80-year-old Marco Bellocchio rather than 77-year-old Martin Scorsese. It, too, runs several hours. And it, too, is a Mafia-based true story.
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‘Because housing is built with ballots:’ Affordable housing in 2020 elections
By Guest Columnist BAMBIE HAYES-BROWN, president and CEO of Georgia Advancing Communities Together, Inc.
The affordable housing crisis is a choice. We have the resources to solve it. Elected officials must garner the political will and work to end this crisis. The 2020 elections are the focus of a national effort by housing advocates with the motto – “Because housing is built with ballots.”
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CDC girds for battle against COVID-19 as the knife looms near its budget
By Tom Baxter Reflecting a complicated history, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — the CDC, as everybody in Atlanta knows it — has gone through several names changes and adjustments. Its World War II predecessor was the Office of Malaria Control in War Areas. That’s a clue as to how the CDC came […]
