By January, one of the people running for lieutenant governor will hold one of the most powerful posts in state politics. That’s because the winner presides over the state Senate, giving them great influence over what bills move through — and which don’t.
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San Diego focus on affordability parallels conversations in Atlanta
SAN DIEGO, CA – Housing affordability and homelessness are front-and-center challenges in San Diego – a region where 46 percent of the area is dedicated for conservation that is bordered by the Pacific Ocean, Indian reservations as well as military land.
The focus on affordability parallels the conversations occurring in Atlanta, which has become increasingly focused on being a region where the people of modest income can still afford to live.
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First loggerhead turtle nest of 2018 found on Cumberland Island
Sea turtle nesting season has begun on Georgia’s coast. The first loggerhead turtle nest of the year was found Tuesday on Cumberland Island, and state wildlife officials expect the number of this year’s nestings to be above average for this threatened species.
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San Diego has an hour-glass economy of well-paid and low-paid jobs with little in the middle
SAN DIEGO, CA – On the second day of the metro Atlanta LINK trip to this southern California city, Georgia leaders discovered differences and similarities between the two regions.
In San Diego, one out of every four jobs is related to the military, generating an economic impact of $50 billion a year and employing up to 140,000 people in the south California region.
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Upcoming talks about new transit plan likely to focus on benefits to commuters
The public awareness campaign for the ATL and metro Atlanta’s new transit project is starting. The central message that’s emerging is that transit will be improved even if voters don’t approve more funding via sales taxes.
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San Diego and Tijuana enjoy a bilateral economy
SAN DIEGO, CA – It’s hard for residents of San Diego and Tijuana to see where the U.S. border begins and Mexican border ends.
In fact, San Diego and Tijuana consider themselves to be “CaliBaja” or “Calexico” or “Mexicali” – all names that represent a mashing together of the southern edge of California with the northern edge of Mexico.
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Metro Atlanta LINK trip lands in San Diego
The Atlanta delegation arrived in San Diego Wednesday morning – West Coast time – spending its first stop at Liberty Station, a redeveloped Naval training center that has been turned a complex of art galleries, shops, offices and restaurants.
Mark Cafferty, president and CEO of the San Diego Regional Economic Development Corp., told the Atlanta delegation that Liberty Station is one of the most successful redevelopments of a former military complex in the United States.
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Atlanta’s housing authority names Brandon Riddick-Seals interim boss
Brandon Riddick-Seals will take over leadership of Atlanta Housing as the authority searches for a permanent replacement for outgoing boss Catherine Buell.
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Proctor Creek Greenway opens, an amenity with a little anxiety
Official Atlanta got out the big blue scissors on Monday morning, this time to cut the ribbon on some three new miles of multiuse trail along Proctor Creek. It was a morning to celebrate a creek and trail as scenic as anything in North Georgia. But not far from the surface were worries about the flip side of fancy new public works in an area that’s long been bypassed by prosperity.
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They called it Country
This week, it’s sort of a ‘road not taken’ tale, a story of what might have been. Atlanta in the early 1900s had developed quite the music scene. And that scene got a whole lot bigger when, in 1922, WSB radio signed on the air and immediately began looking for talent to fill air time. […]
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New controversy emerges over Bobby Jones golf course redevelopment
The environmental destruction surrounding the redevelopment of the Bobby Jones Golf Course continues.
The Chattahoochee Riverkeeper is strongly opposing a plan by the Bobby Jones Golf Foundation to encroach within the stream buffers of Tanyard Creek and Peachtree Creek.
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Atlanta may turn to zoning to spark affordable homes, renew a neighborhood
Atlanta’s latest effort to create affordable housing is underway in Carey Park, a Northwest neighborhood the city plans to rezone to a classification intended to promote development of houses for those with low to moderate incomes.
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Benefactor to match donations to Atlanta Humane Society, up to $3,000 per donation
A benefactor is helping homeless animals in care of the Atlanta Humane Society by matching donations to the shelter that are made through Thursday, up to $3,000 per donation. The humane society is asking for donations as it is taking in hundreds of kittens and puppies at the start of birthing season.
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‘RBG’ – a love letter movie to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Never mind The Avengers. The real superhero in theaters right now is Supreme Court Justice, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the focus of “RBG.”
More valentine than documentary, the film is a spritely and affectionate tribute to the 84-year-old judge and unlikely pop-culture phenom who, like some fairy godmother many of us never knew we had, helped change the landscape of women’s rights in 20th and 21st century America.
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More than a financial burden, Plant Vogtle a bad business decision for Georgia
By Guest Columnist MICHAEL M. SIZEMORE, founding principal of Sizemore Group and a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects
What makes a good business decision? After running a successful architecture firm for decades, I’ve learned a thing or two about what guides good business judgment, and the importance of making sound decisions in the best interest of one’s clients….
And that is why I can say with confidence that the decision to continue the Plant Vogtle nuclear expansion, despite a near doubling of its original price tag and more than five years of delay, appears to be bad business, pure and simple.
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Three teens from metro Atlanta on team that won state bird-a-thon
Three high school students from Atlanta and Decatur were on the team that won the 13th annual Department of Natural Resources bird-a-thon. They identified 161 bird species, the most spotted by any team.
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Georgia’s wannabe electricity regulators talk nuclear, solar, power bills at debate
What members of the Public Service Commission do affects your power bill every month and the mix of coal, nuclear and other electricity sources Georgia uses. That’s why environmentalists watch it closely. Now the candidates for the PSC are showing up on primary ballots all over the state — and on Thursday, they faced off in debates.
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Starbucks’ executives on Morehouse campus discuss race, racism
Talk about timing.
Morehouse College hosted a town hall meeting Thursday afternoon with Howard Schultz, founder and executive chairman of Starbucks; and Rosalind Gates Brewer, Starbucks’ president of the Americas and chief operating officer.
The town hall, which had been planned for month, took place less than a month after two black males were arrested at a Starbucks in Philadelphia for hanging out at the café without buying anything.
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Home Depot Foundation reaches $250 million goal early
In 2016, the Home Depot Foundation committed to investing $250 million veteran-related causes by 2020.
On Friday, the foundation will announce it has reached its $250 million goal – two years early.
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Downtown Atlanta’s Food Truck Fridays move to Woodruff Park, start this week
Food Truck Fridays returns Friday to Downtown Atlanta in a new location, moving to Woodruff Park as part of the effort by civic leaders to strengthen the park’s growing role as the outdoor living room for the city’s central business district.
