The economy in the Southeast picked up modestly in July through mid August. An anomaly in the region, compared to elsewhere in the country, is that employers looked for alternatives to hiring when a job became open, according to the latest survey released Wednesday by the Federal Reserve.
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Mayoral candidates promise to find affordable housing cash
In a packed forum, top mayoral candidates said their ideas for raising money for affordable housing polices range from parking taxes to bonds, to maybe even casinos.
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Grady Memorial Hospital makes its debut in City Hall campaigns
Grady Memorial Hospital made its debut Tuesday in the campaign for seats at Atlanta City Hall. Every member of the Atlanta City Council signed a proclamation commending Grady for its 125 years of service.
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Gone Fishin’
Tom Baxter has gone fishing at the end of summer. Tom’s column will resume when the bass stop biting.
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‘Letters from Baghdad’ – how Gertrude Bell helped shape today’s Middle East
Gertrude Bell was the nasty woman of her era.
Her contemporaries — among them, T.E. Lawrence and Winston Churchill — admired her. However, they also deemed her arrogant, rude and “not very likable.”
It’s likely you’ve never heard of Gertrude Bell — something the absorbing documentary, “Letters From Baghdad” hopes to change. Born in England in 1868, she spent the last decade of the 19th century and the first quarter of the 20th criss-crossing the Middle East, getting to know the tribal factions and their power plays.
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Atlanta’s mayoral race is up for grabs
The 2017 Atlanta mayoral election is unlike anything we’ve ever seen.
And it is anybody’s guess on how it will shake out.
The back-and-forth between Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed and Atlanta City Council President Ceasar Mitchell this past week shined a spotlight on several of the complex issues that will influence the outcome.
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Auburn Avenue’s long-awaited history, cultural project moving forward
A walk along Auburn Avenue can be described as inspirational, even spiritual. Soon the words educational and attractive may be added. A highlight of a pending beautification project is a huge mural and 10 big light boxes that are to tell the corridor’s history.
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Hundreds close Labor Day weekend with rally for dreamers
As much of Atlanta skipped work or school on Labor Day, a few hundred folks gathered Downtown to rally in support of immigrants who want the permanent right to work or go to school.
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Photo Pick: DragonCon 2017 – Parade setup. by Kelly Jordan
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A tour of Labor Day weekend, 1967, through archives of Atlanta History Center
By Guest Columnist BO HIERS, who recently “semi-retired” from a 35-year career in the reinsurance industry and is a newly-minted volunteer at the Atlanta History Center.
So all this really happened 50 years ago in Atlanta. You can check it out yourself at the Atlanta History Center’s Kenan Research Center. You’ll need to drop by the check-in desk and create a Patron Card for yourself. You may even have to leave a few things in a locker as well, including any ink pens, before you are granted access. But once inside, you have a veritable treasure trove of historical gems at your disposal.
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New ‘Access to Justice’ map provides treasure trove of data in easy-to-use format
A new mapping tool intended to quantify the disparity of legal access in Georgia also shows some striking facts about the state’s population. For instance, a third of Gwinnett County residents don’t speak English at home and a third of Gwinnett’s households don’t have Internet access.
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U.S. Supreme Court asks Mississippi to defend Confederate symbol on flag
The same week Georgia unveiled a statue of Martin Luther King Jr., the U.S. Supreme Court requested the governor of Mississippi to defend the Confederate battle emblem on his state’s flag. Calls to lynch anyone trying to remove Confederate symbols have been issued by a Mississippi lawmaker and other state officials, according to a petition asking the court to consider a lawsuit involving the flag symbol.
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Emory University’s first ‘Conversation with America’ digs deep on big issues
Emory University sparked just the sort of conversation it had hoped to initiate when Emory launched its Conversations with America project Tuesday evening in Pittsburgh. The event was covered by media including NBC, politico.com, and thehill.com.
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ATL annexation of Emory et al.: City confronts DeKalb’s complaint
Atlanta on Tuesday laid a big piece of its foundation for the upcoming legal effort to provide a seamless annexation into the city of Emory University and neighboring institutions. The move appears designed to address provisions in a state annexation law regarding future development and density in annexation areas.
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In the Trump era, praying science can save us
The most dominant national headlines in recent weeks have highlighted a fundamental principle that’s often overlooked but cannot be overstated: Science matters. From predicting dangerous tropical storms to charting the path of an eclipse or utterly discrediting the claims of hate-filled racists, science may ultimately help to save us, if only from ourselves.
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Saving Georgia’s state reptile: Partnership makes headway for gopher tortoise
A public-private, preemptive effort to save the at-risk gopher tortoise has made considerable headway as it counts down to its 2020 goal to conserve habitat and protect turtle colonies, according to a new federal report.
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‘It’s a hard story to cover, because the weather’s so bad’
My first disaster had a lot in common with the current one. It was a hurricane named Agnes, a storm which weakened but wouldn’t go away.
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Atlanta – our new Mercedes-Benz Stadium is a keeper
From the first time I saw the design for the then-unnamed new Falcons stadium in October 2013, I was smitten.
Architect Bill Johnson poetically described how the first-of-its-kind retractable roof would open with eight panels traveling along octagonal tracks to create the opening by saying: “The heavens will open up.”
