Grady Health System has hired a company to help manage the care patients receive as they transition through Grady Memorial Hospital. The goal is to better coordinate care in order to avoid unnecessary time spent in the hospital.
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PATH 400, Buckhead greenspace expand with guidance from Livable Buckhead
The next phase of PATH 400 is to be a trail alongside Atlanta’s own version of Okefenokee Swamp, a wetlands in Buckhead complete with beaver dams. Just four years ago, this stretch of trail appeared to be little more than gilding on a dream. Now, construction is funded and awaits just a go-ahead from Norfolk Southern Corp.
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‘Hearts Beat Loud’ – a minor miracle of a movie about a father-daughter musical duo
Heartfelt and, yes, heartwarming (aaarrgh, what a buzzkill word!!), “Hearts Beat Loud” reminds us there is life at the movies beyond dinosaurs and third-rate “Star Wars” one-offs.
It’s a small, smart picture about a father and daughter beautifully played by Nick Offerman (“Parks and Recreation”) and KIersey Clemons (“Flatliners,” “Transparent”).
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City needs to hit pause on Brock English Ave. project
A proposed mixed-use project by Brock Built Homes and partners has become a lightning rod in the already divided English Avenue community.
Despite a lack of consensus among key players on the Westside, the project has been sailing through the Atlanta City Council’s committee meetings. It was scheduled to go before the full Atlanta City Council on Monday, July 2, but it has been delayed for 30 days.
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Atlanta well positioned to continue efforts to thrive in an rapidly changing world
By Guest Columnist STEPHANIE STUCKEY, a sustainability expert
In May 2016, Atlanta became the final city to be part of 100 Resilient Cities (“100 RC”), a program pioneered by the Rockefeller Foundation to help cities around the world become more resilient to the physical, social, and economic challenges that are a growing part of the 21st Century.
The Rockefeller network enables cities to increase the capacity of individuals, communities, institutions, businesses, and systems to survive, adapt, and thrive no matter what chronic stresses or acute shocks they face.
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New hands-free driving law coincides with big police presence for July 4th holiday
Almost before Georgia drivers have a chance to adapt to the new state law that, as of Sunday, bans drivers from touching their phone while driving, roadways will be under increased scrutiny from law enforcement officers who plan to step up patrols for the July 4th holiday.
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Atlanta Housing votes for East Lake refinance, renovations
Applause and some shouts of joy answered a unanimous vote of the board of Atlanta’s housing authority on Wednesday afternoon — it came from Villages of East Lake residents and supporters who’ve been lobbying for a deal to finance neighborhood renovations.
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Supreme Court ruling in water war may shift burden to farmers in Southwest Georgia
Metro Atlanta may have escaped unscathed, but farmers in Southwest Georgia may one day feel the prick of the Supreme Court’s ruling Wednesday on the lawsuit Florida filed against Georgia to increase the flow of water into the Sunshine State.
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DeKalb’s CEO nominates union lobbyist to MARTA’s board of directors
DeKalb County CEO Michael Thurmond has nominated Rita Scott, the district president of the Communications Workers of America, to represent DeKalb on MARTA’s board of directors.
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Supeme Court sends Fla./Ga. water lawsuit back to special master for more consideration
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled today that the special master who considered the federal lawsuit Florida filed against Georgia over water flow from Georgia into Florida will gather additional information in the case before justices issue a final ruling. Justices determined the special master had applied too strict a standard with Florida’s claim that Georgia was hoarding water to the detriment of the Apalachicola River Basin.
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Southside Aerotropolis development’s transit study takes flight
As metro Atlanta is poised for a mass transit Renaissance, boosters for the sprawling, “southern crescent” sub-region known as Aerotropolis want to ensure that those who live, work, and play near the world’s busiest airport are ahead of the curve and innovating for the future.
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Mayor Bottoms: City has five finalists for airport general manager
Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms on Monday said the city has narrowed its search for an airport general manager to five finalists.
In a brief interview with a couple of reporters after speaking to the Rotary Club of Atlanta, Bottoms said she would not disclose the names of those finalists because “these people are all employed.”
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Atlanta’s citizen planners recommend incentives to boost housing development
Once they were finished, the citizen planners who on Saturday offered their ideas about how to promote housing development in Atlanta relied heavily on many of the same tools used around the nation for more than 30 years – government incentives to entice the free market to meet a public need for housing at all prices.
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Know your “affordable housing”
Atlanta’s in an affordable housing “crisis,” it’s got a “shortage.” But two people talking about “affordable housing” might not mean the same thing.
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Gwinnett can board transit train faster by joining MARTA
Gwinnett has an opportunity to do what it should have done 47 years ago – join MARTA.
The Gwinnett County Commission is looking to pass a transit plan this week that would significantly increase its public transportation investment.
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Atlanta seeking to push back its clean energy goals
Back in May 2017, the Atlanta City Council voted unanimously for the city to transition to 100 percent clean energy for municipal operations by 2025 and 100 percent clean energy for the entire city by 2035.
Now the city is saying – “Not so fast.”
The Atlanta City Council will consider a resolution by its Utilities Committee to push back those deadlines to 2035 for municipal operations and for the entire city by 2050.
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Camden Spaceport wins major political support as public comment period ends
The proposal to build a spaceport in Camden County that would launch space vehicles over Cumberland Island has drawn support from a wide cadre of backers, including Georgia’s two senators, the entire House delegation, and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich.
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‘Incredibles 2’ – Superheroes with little inner spark
We all know those t-shirts: “My parents went to Hawaii/Venice/Chicago and all I got was this lousy t-shirt.”
The t-shirt for “Incredibles 2” should read: “It took 14 years to make a sequel and all we got was this lousy movie?”
Most movie-goers have been wild about “Incredibles 2,” but then they were wild about “The Incredibles” as well.
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Let’s use technology to better address metro Atlanta’s 21st century traffic ills
By Guest Columnist GEOFF DUNCAN, a Republican candidate for lieutenant governor
For anyone who lives in metro Atlanta, there isn’t a day that goes by that their greatest nemesis – traffic congestion – isn’t a topic of conversation.
For far too many of us, just figuring out how we get from Point A to Point B has become the greatest challenge of living and working in this region. INRIX, the transportation analytics firm, ranked Atlanta’s congestion the fourth worst in the nation last year and eighth worst in the world.
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Andrew Young on the road to recovery
Former Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young views the past 45 days as a needed break from the ultra-busy life he has led as a global leader for more than six decades.
Young fell ill in May during a trip to Nashville where he was to give a speech at the baccalaureate at Fisk University – immediately getting admitted to the Vanderbilt Medical Center and then transferred to Emory University Hospital.
