Some of the things that still have a chance? A near-total ban on abortions, a hate crime law, a state takeover of the airport, medical cannabis cultivation and more.
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Wall Street analysts remain bullish on WellStar despite possible regulatory reform
Wall Street credit analysts gave little heed to potential changes in state regulations of Georgia’s hospital industry when they issued last week a stable rating to WellStar Health System.
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Atlanta’s gentrification, now a challenge, started as sign of city’s spirit of civil rights
By Guest Columnist HATTIE DORSEY, civic volunteer, founder and retired president of the Atlanta Neighborhood Development Partnership
Gentrification is a word used to describe what happens with housing development patterns in cities, particularly in the North, Midwest and West Coast cities, when neighborhoods change by race and by income. It was not a pattern that happened in the South, because housing in this region was segregated by race even years after the civil rights movement.
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Delta’s top credit rating reflects lower costs of hub at ATL airport: Moody’s report
As state lawmakers consider taking over Atlanta’s airport, Delta Air Lines, Inc. on Wednesday received a top credit rating from Moody’s Investors Service that builds on a recent rating that said one of Delta’s key credit strengths is the lower costs of doing business at Atlanta’s airport.
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Census proceeds with $500 million marketing plan for embattled 2020 Census
The Census Bureau on Monday unveiled the $500 million communication platform for the 2020 count of the nation’s population – “Shape your future. START HERE.” The release comes as the decennial count remains mired in litigation brought by several states and the NAACP.
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Georgia House OKs pair of tenants’ rights bills
“This law is a ban on retaliatory evictions of tenants,” said state Rep. Sharon Cooper, R-Marietta. “This is about slum landlords.”
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Metro Atlanta ranks in top third of global rankings of traffic congestion
Moscow is ranked as the world’s worst city for traffic congestion, but motorists there travel 3 mph faster than drivers in Atlanta when it comes to the rate of travel on the last inner city mile, according to a report that could fuel conversation at Tuesday’s meeting about express lanes along Ga. 400.
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Georgia bill would set aside funds from Uber, Lyft, taxis for mobility and “innovation”
“Thirty million dollars to $60 million dollars can remove a whole lot of barriers for a whole lot of people in our state,” said state Rep. Kevin Tanner, R-Dawsonville.
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Arts, culture in ATL: ARC approves long-awaited plan to expand programs
The murals, performances, farmers markets and soccer events becoming more prevalent at MARTA rail stations are the types of arts and culture offerings the Atlanta Regional Commission intends to foster across the region through a new strategic plan.
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‘The Stitch’ seeks to bridge the divide created by the Downtown Connector
Ever since the Atlanta region began carving the city apart with highways in the 1950s and 1960s, civic leaders have explored ways to reconnect the disjointed areas by bridging over our interstates.In 1981, the late Atlanta Mayor Maynard Jackson was about to end his second term in office. President Jimmy Carter, who had just lost re-election, was looking for the right place to build his presidential library.
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‘Greta’ – movie slides easily from shock to schlock
The customer, a petite European redhead, has just been poured a glass of Chablis by her nervous waitron. Taking a sip, she says appraisingly, “It’s like you. Promises a lot, then disappoints.”The same could be said about “Greta,” a stalker-cum-Bluebeard story with a twist. The customer happens to be the title character, Greta (Isabelle Huppert), a sixty-something widow living in Brooklyn.
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Hip Hop is one of Atlanta’s greatest exports; so why isn’t it embraced like it?
By King Williams When it opened in June 2017, the Pink Trap House became an instant phenomenon, not only in Atlanta, but in the United States and the global Hip Hop community. In a few short weeks, the Pink Trap House became the actual artistic, cultural and community gathering spot that so many gentrified real […]
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Memorializing wood that matters into things that last
By Guest Columnist RONNY JUST, a worker of wood
My German grandfather was sometimes described as stoic and unemotional. For many years I was unable to reconcile that description with my observation of the man’s passion for shaping red cedar – from his farm outside Austin, Texas – into treasured family heirlooms.
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Bribery, favoritism, retaliation cited in Atlanta’s oversized pay for overtime hours
A manager at Atlanta’s airport awarded overtime hours to her husband, son and nephew rather than giving other employees a chance to earn the extra pay, a situation that is just part of the abuse of overtime pay identified in the city’s internal audit of overtime pay.
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MARTA manager sentenced for role in fraud prosecuted Justice Department
The sentencing in federal court this week of a former MARTA department administrator brings to a close a scheme in which two top transit officials and an associate defrauded MARTA of more than $500,000.
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Georgia could approve hemp, medical cannabis grows this year — but time running low
One might ask if high-THC marijuana for sale on the street might be grown in the middle of a field of hemp.
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Disease-causing bacteria in water off Georgia beaches now routine presence
Beachgoers were advised they may get sick if they enter the water along portion of three of Georgia’s coastal islands in February because of high levels of a waterborne bacteria associated with disease. The waters have been declared safe, but the warnings remind of the potential harm caused by runoff from manmade or other sources.
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Crime, traffic dominate Buckhead town hall with mayor
“The only thing slowing down the criminals are the potholes,” said one resident.
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Emory area could see skyscrapers under Atlanta’s proposed rezoning
Office towers of an unlimited height could be permitted on a portion of land brought into Atlanta through the annexation of Emory University and the surrounding area, according to the rezoning proposal.
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The idea of Georgia running Atlanta’s airport gets a state Senate nod — barely
“We’ve had the world’s busiest and most efficient airport for many years running, and this notion that the state can somehow run it better is presumptuous,” said Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms
