At the foot of your midterm ballot, there are going to be some referendum questions. Here’s what they mean.
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Battle over Plant Vogtle costs Jacksonville a downgrade in credit ratings, outlook
The battle among the owners of Plant Vogtle over its continued construction has led to a lowering of the credit ratings of about $2.1 billion in bonds sold by Jacksonville, Fl. The concern is the city’s reliability to repay its debts, according to a rating action issued by Moody’s Investors Service.
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‘The Old Man and the Gun’ – actor Robert Redford still robbing banks – now as Forrest Tucker
One measure of the affection (and, yes, lust) that has accrued to Robert Redford over his decades in movies is, when he walks into a bank in “The Old Man and the Gun,” we reflexively wonder, is he “walking” like an old man or does he, at 82, now walk like an old man?
Actually, in keeping with the delicacy of the acting ego, Redford is playing younger than his age.
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Planned Chamblee Doraville CID to create sense of place, urgency for improvements
By Guest Columnist DAN REUTER, a longtime advisor on urban planning and community development in metro Atlanta and the founder/CEO of Reuter Strategy
Momentum is building for the creation of a new Community Improvement District in the cities of Chamblee and Doraville. Led by local commercial property owners and encouraged by the leadership of the cities of Chamblee and Doraville, a CID will help the community to leverage the existing assets to provide greater access and amenities.
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Promised Howell Mill overhaul may not happen
A bunch of proposed work on Howell Mill Road is up in the air as the city steps back from some public works pledges.
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A 10-minute walk to a park? Advocates say it should happen in Atlanta
It might be a stretch goal in a spread-out city like Atlanta, but parks advocates say that everyone should live within a 10-minutes walk of some nice green space.
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Former Technology Association of Georgia CEO lands new leadership role
Tino J. Mantella, a veteran executive who led the Technology Association of Georgia (TAG) from 2004 to 2016, will be the new president and CEO of the Turknett Leadership Group.
In his 12 years at the helm of TAG, Mantella grew the organization from fewer than 500 members to more than 36,000.
The Atlanta-based Turknett Leadership Group was founded by Bob and Lyn Turknett 30 years ago to help develop leaders through executive coaching, talent assessment and development, succession planning and cultural assessments.
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Atlanta Police Foundation gets $2 million Coca-Cola pledge to fight crime
At the Atlanta Police Foundation’s Crime is Toast breakfast Tuesday morning, Coca-Cola CEO James Quincey announced that the company was making a $2 million gift to the foundation’s upcoming Vision Safe Atlanta campaign.
Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms also announced both she and Quincey had agreed to co-chair the Atlanta Police Foundation’s $35 million capital campaign, which will build at least one new @Promise Youth Center on the Southside along Metropolitan Avenue.
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Metro Atlanta also wants ‘More MARTA’ – as transit gains favor
More MARTA started out as a vehicle to bring more transit to the City of Atlanta.
Now it’s turned in to a cry for More MARTA in metro Atlanta.
Although the More MARTA $11.5 billion project list was tied to voters in the City of Atlanta passing an additional half-penny MARTA sales tax to be invested within the city, the last two MARTA board meetings were filled with people who wanted “More MARTA” in their jurisdictions.
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Kensington station development proceeds despite Avondale protests
The 240-unit development will be “100 percent affordable housing” right next to the Kensington MARTA station.
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Clifton Corridor’s light rail service an ‘overnight success’ that took six decades
Overnight success takes about 20 years, or so goes the maxim. Sometimes it can take nearly 60 years, as in the case of the Clifton Corridor – where the newly approved plan to connect rail service dates to a map unveiled in 1961, when President Kennedy was in office.
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An introduction of SaportaReport’s newest columnist – King Williams
It started out with a simple question, “Momma, where did the people go?”
I was a young teen at the time, and the seemingly simple question perplexed my mom and also perplexed everyone else I would ask until I reached my senior year of college.
“Those people” were the people of East Lake Meadows, a public housing project on the Eastside of Atlanta which sat right in-between the city limits of Atlanta and my native city of Decatur.
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Multiple choice voting? Same day registration? Georgia candidates give mixed reviews of voting variation
What if every election day folks voted more than once — legally — ranking candidates from first to last? Or what if folks who weren’t registered at all showed up on Election Day and got a ballot?
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‘A Star is Born’ – Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga carry the movie
A star isn’t exactly born in the newest iteration of the well-worn classic. After all, most of us have heard of Lady Gaga somehow, somewhere.
Besides, this isn’t even – technically – her feature film debut. According to IMDB, she’s already appeared on the big screen in “Machete Kills” “Muppets Most Wanted” (as herself) and “Men in Black 3” as “alien on TV monitors.”
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U.N.-affiliated sustainability network to be recognized at Center for Civil, Human Rights
By Guest Columnist JENNIFER HIRSCH, co-founder of RCE Greater Atlanta, with GARRY HARRIS and SERENA NEWHALL, steering committee members of RCE Greater Atlanta.
Atlanta’s regional sustainability network, RCE Greater Atlanta, will celebrate its recognition by the United Nations University at an event hosted Wednesday by the Center for Civil and Human Rights, an RCE member organization. A program for youth leadership in sustainability is among those to be celebrated.
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MARTA’s surplus property: Managing excess a challenge in its own right
Even the graffiti artists haven’t made much of a mark on the latest piece of surplus property MARTA intends to sell. A YouTube video of the site has scored just 131 views in six months. But the sale of this property does speak to the ongoing management of a transit system that’s just approved a $2.7 billion expansion plan.
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A slice of Americana, the black powder longrifle, to make annual appearance
The otherworldly smoke and sound of black powder weapons will move from the fields of historic reenactments to the hunting tracts of Georgia next weekend, as thousands of hunters armed with muzzleleaders are expected to head out in search of deer.
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Critics rallying to “Redlight the Gulch;” call it a bad deal for Atlanta
But the crux of the anti-Gulch deal argument is that what the people get is nothing compared to what the developer gets.
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MARTA to seek its own lanes for streetcar expansion
In a car-loving city, MARTA planners are looking to get light rail its own lane as much as possible, as they plan a system across the city.
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Southern Co. on Vogtle: ‘ultimate outcome of these matters cannot be determined’
The following sentence concludes a federal filing that sets out terms of the agreement among Plant Vogtle’s partners that enables construction to continue: “The ultimate outcome of these matters cannot be determined at this time.”
