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Mayor Reed’s legacy list grows as Wall Street approves city’s course
Following voter approval of Tuesday’s $250 million bond referendum, Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed can add the improvement of Atlanta’s roads, bridges, sidewalks, and public facilities to his lengthening legacy list.
As Reed begins his sixth year as mayor, legacies of his tenure include:
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As Midtown explores becoming a historic district, several of its older buildings are getting torn down
Oh the irony.
The Midtown Neighbor’s Association and its Historic Midtown Committee are looking into designating one of the city’s oldest neighborhoods into a “Local Historic District.”
But as the neighborhood is pursuing the establishment of a Midtown Historic Overlay District, significant parts of its history are being torn down for new developments.
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Ebola research by Emory, CDC yields results as aid workers arrive for monitoring after exposure to virus
As several aid workers exposed to the Ebola virus arrive for monitoring in Atlanta, researchers from Emory University and the CDC report progress in their efforts to improve treatment of the disease.
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Georgia coast lucky coalition came together to support the Coastal Marshland Protection Act of 1970
This week guest contributor PAUL M. PRESSLY, director of the Ossabaw Island Education Alliance, provides a brief history of efforts to protect Georgia’s coast, and reminds us why the coast matters.
With only 100 miles of coastline, Georgia is blessed with some of the most extensive salt marshes in the nation, hosting one-third of the marsh on the entire East Coast. So what a shock in May 2014 when the Environmental Protection Division nullified its old policy and ruled that the requirement of a 25-foot buffer between developed areas and marsh was eliminated.
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Clayton County welcoming MARTA as the start of a new day
As dignitaries and Clayton County residents gathered Saturday morning for a ceremonial ribbon-cutting of MARTA beginning bus service on March 21, Angel Lemond was trying to find out when buses would start serving Clayton State University.
“It costs me between $35 and $40 a day for a taxi to get and forth to Clayton State,” said Lemond, who found out that service to the university will start in August – the same month she is set to graduate.
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The Georgian Terrace Hotel serves as the launching pad for a national sensation.
No one imagined that the small business operated by a Georgian Tech student in a ballroom of the Georgian Terrace Hotel would one day become a national sensation.
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GRTA’s draft strategic plan envisions Xpress buses direct to airport, more service on major routes
GRTA is completing a strategic plan that envisions Xpress bus service direct to Atlanta’s airport as part of an expansion of a transit service that has consistently received state funds for operations since the great recession.
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Georgia’s marshes are at risk if state bill requiring 25-foot buffer isn’t passed
By Guest Columnist ROBERT RAMSAY, president of the Georgia Conservancy
When Sidney Lanier penned his famous poem – “The Marshes of Glynn” – in 1875, he extolled the beauty and wild scenery of Georgia’s salt marsh.
Though he feared this incredible landscape would be spoiled, Georgia’s coast has remained largely intact and even flourished at a time when many of the East Coast’s dynamic salt marshes have been lost or critically impaired.
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Xernona Clayton celebrates her “Life to Remember” documentary with friends
The forever-young Xernona Clayton showed her life on the big screen Saturday night to a “small” group of 600 of her closest friends at the Hyatt Regency Atlanta. They came to honor a woman who was born in Oklahoma and made it to Atlanta in 1964 after stops in Chicago and Los Angeles – becoming a close friend and associate of Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King.
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Third graders to plant trees as Atlanta’s proposed tree ordinance revision remains mired in politics
In a simple gesture of respect for the environment, third-grade pupils at Milford Elementary School in Cobb County are to plant 41 trees Friday.
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Atlanta Daily World building gives us hope – we can save history
It can be done.
To all the naysayers who view dilapidated older buildings as lost causes, stop by the Atlanta Daily World building at 145 Auburn Ave.
The attractive red brick building today stands as a testament of what a sensitive developer who has a passion for the historical integrity a place in time can accomplish.
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GSU’s top economist predicts Fed to raise interest rates in autumn
Georgia State University chief economist Rajeev Dhawan predicted today the Federal Reserve will wait until autumn to begin raising interest rates, and even then will do so gingerly.
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Metro Chamber VP to lead Cobb County’s new Georgia Business Success Center
The Metro Chamber’s vice president of entrepreneurial development has resigned to become executive director of the new Georgia Business Success Center, in Cobb County.
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In Selma to pay our respects to the past with hope for the future
SELMA – Thousands of people over the weekend descended on this small Alabama town with a population of less than 20,000.
Never before had Selma attracted these kind of crowds for the annual commemoration of Bloody Sunday – the re-enactment of the Selma-to-Montgomery March of 1965.
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Cachers plan logically to celebrate irrational, extraordinary Pi Day
This Saturday (3/14/15) at 9:26 a.m. plus 53 seconds, Myles Villoria and other high-tech treasure hunters in Georgia will throw pies in each other’s faces. The event is Pi Day, the worldwide celebration of the mathematical constant expressed in the Greek alphabet as π, and the celebrants are geocachers, people who use GPS technology to find stashes of prizes and mementos hidden all over the earth.
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Meria Carstarphen’s Selma roots to define her tenure at APS
SELMA – A beaming Meria Carstarphen – Atlanta’s still relatively new superintendent of schools – was right at home.
Carstarphen was receiving the inaugural Phoenix Award from the Sullivan and Richie Jean Sherrod Jackson Foundation Sunday morning – on the same weekend as all the 50th anniversary events of the Selma to Montgomery March that made such an impression on this nation and was a driving force behind the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965.
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Atlantic Station deal shows need to monitor urban renewal projects
Two funding issues related to the development of Atlantic Station illustrate the ongoing oversight needed to manage the type of big urban renewal projects so popular in Atlanta.
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The Voting Rights Act, 50 years later: do we have the capacity to initiate change for mutual benefit?
This week guest contributor STEVE SUITTS, an adjunct lecturer at the Institute of Liberal Arts of Emory University and a Senior Fellow at the Southern Education Foundation, looks at the benefits of the Voting Rights Act for blacks and whites alike.
“This year marks the 50th anniversary of the passage of the federal Voting Rights Act of 1965. It was originally opposed by most white southerners, as were the other three pillars of civil rights law passed during a period of only four years, from 1964 through 1968.”
