The Atlanta BeltLine likely won’t get approval Monday for a $7 million allocation to cover unspecified “professional expenses” until it explains to the Atlanta City Council what the money is supposed to cover.
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‘Late Night’ – Emma Thompson is movie’s ace in the hole
“Late Night” is both too little and too late.
I say that regretfully. The idea of a workplace comedy attuned to #MeToo and #TimesUp would certainly be welcome, especially in the summer when Hollywood all but posts signs saying “No Girls Allowed.”
But writer/star Mindy Kaling simply hasn’t come up with the goods.
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Georgia’s threat of hurricanes this season eased by distant weather, UGA reports
The threat of hurricanes landing in Georgia this season is reduced by the persistence of an El Niño in the Pacific Ocean, according to a report released Friday by a climatologist at the University of Georgia – who also observed that the downpours this months have reduced the extent of drought in the state.
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Breaking down barriers for Latino entrepreneurs In Georgia
By Guest Columnist GIGI PEDRAZA, executive director and founder of Latino Community Fund
From the carpet industry’s rapid growth in Dalton in the 1980s to the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta to Georgia’s continued economic growth right now, our state has repeatedly drawn in Latino immigrants with the promise of a chance to live the American Dream and provide a better life for their children. Today, over a million people with Latin American roots live in Georgia.
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Planned charging stations for e-scooters, e-bikes could ease tension over their use
The free market has found a way to create a new revenue stream off electronic bikes and scooters, and this answer promises to resolve one thorny issue regarding the devices – where and how the devices are charged.
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MARTA board OKs spending plan for new light rail, rapid bus
Now MARTA shifts to zooming in on each individual project: turning those thick lines on maps into detailed designs of where exactly to lay a rail, where to build a bus lane, where to set up stations and stops.
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Doraville’s top cop to stand in for indicted Georgia insurance commissioner
“No. 1, we have to have a person of very high integrity in the current situation that we’re in,” Gov. Brian Kemp said.
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SunTrust-BB&T pick Truist as name for combined $66B bank
And the new name is …Truist.The top executives of Winston-Salem, N.C.-based BB&T Corp. and Atlanta-based SunTrust Banks Inc. announced Wednesday that the name of their new merged bank will be Truist – a name picked to reflect the heritage of both financial institutions.
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Atlanta A-listers raise $117M for Bernie Marcus’ 90th birthday
The A-list Sunday night dinner – “In Bernie’s Honor” – raised an historic $117.7 million in celebration of Bernie Marcus’ 90th birthday.The co-founder of The Home Depot Inc. was feted by his fellow co-founders – Arthur Blank and Ken Langone – as well as the top business, civic and government leaders in Georgia.
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Kemp’s first trade mission as governor: South Korea
A Georgia delegation headed by Gov. Brian Kemp is heading to South Korea to pitch the state to companies there, and visit companies that already invest here.
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Gwinnett County firm stiffs workers OT pay in case resolved by federal Labor Dept.
A Gwinnett County granite installation company that didn’t pay its workers overtime was among four firms cited Wednesday by the federal government – including one that stiffed its workers out of $1.5 million at a Marine military base, plus one cited Tuesday for shorting workers at an Air Force base in Panama City, Fl. wrecked by Hurricane Michael.
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Georgia may yet tax Walmart.com Rolexes, short-term rentals, ride-hailing and other online commerce
“Because they’re not being collected, those are dollars that are not being used in our communities, and for me, that’s a problem.”
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A conversation with Keith Parker President and CEO of Goodwill of North Georgia.
By King Williams Keith Parker is the current President and CEO of Goodwill of North Georgia. He is also known to many in Atlanta as the former CEO of MARTA, who for five years oversaw one of the greatest turnarounds in the organization’s history. Parker is a long-time industry veteran who has worked in transit […]
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Fulton County’s new sustainability plan sets climate change mitigation as No. 1 goal
Climate change mitigation is the No. 1 priority named in the sustainability program approved unanimously by Fulton County’s Board of Commissioners. The measure is strongly endorsed by environmentalists and members of a citizen panel that contributed to the document.
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Atlanta shouldn’t settle for mediocre ‘More MARTA’ plan
The proposed investment priorities of More MARTA in the city of Atlanta feels as though we’re coming up short.In gauging the response of the proposed priorities and timeline of the More MARTA plan, it appears few are satisfied or comfortable with the plan as it stands.
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Grooming change agents for tomorrow starts with engaging youth today
Jackie Ampofa is a teenager who represents the next generation of community leaders. She’s working to improve a blighted area near Six Flags Over Georgia and her mentor – whose work contributed to a new statewide law protecting tenants – brought her to an event that teaches folks from less-advantaged backgrounds how to build partnerships across generations.
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Fixing Atlanta’s scooter chaos won’t be easy
There are joyous riders, angry pedestrians and all kinds of folks in between. If everybody’s going to be accommodated, it’ll take education and courtesy — not enforcement alone.
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‘The Souvenir’ – Tilda Swinton and her daughter play drab roles
“The Souvenir” is a portrait of the artist as a young doormat.Set in London in the ‘80s (i.e., no computers, cellphones, but the occasional IRA attack at Harrods), the movie features Tilda Swinton, looking as close to ordinary as you’ve ever seen her, and her real-life daughter, Honor Swinton Byrne, here cast as her movie daughter, Julie.
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What would you take if given the opportunity
It is an iconic image, to say the least. Astronaut Alan Shepard, in his full spacesuit, standing on the surface of the moon…swinging at a golf ball. Amid all of the hi tech, “get me to the moon and back” gear aboard the Apollo 14 mission, Shepard had smuggled a makeshift golf club and some […]
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‘until I am’ wins 2019 Georgia Poet Laureate’s Prize for Marietta teen
This year’s teen winner of the Georgia Poet Laureate’s Prize explores questions of self that respond directly to Henri Cole, another award-winning poet who observed a poem is, “a little snapshot of the soul in a moment of being.”
