The Atlanta Streetcar has improved its safety and operations and is on track to sever its relation with MARTA and function solely as an entity of the city, even as passenger fares cover just 4.5 percent of expenses, according to Atlanta’s public works commissioner.
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Zell Miller’s Legacy Dinner captures bipartisan spirit central to Miller Institute
The honoree has been ailing lately, and wasn’t about to attend. But in an age of sharp political divisions, Zell Miller’s 85th birthday was celebrated Tuesday evening by as bipartisan a group as you’ll be likely to gather these days.
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John Brock not slowing down after Coca-Cola
As published in the Atlanta Business Chronicle on Feb. 24, 2017
Although he retired as CEO of Coca-Cola European Partners at the end of 2016, John Brock is not going anywhere.
Both he and his wife, Mary, plan to become even more involved in their civic and business interests, and they will continue to live in Atlanta.
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Public corruption case in DeKalb County, GWCCA lost in din over Atlanta corruption
Federal prosecutors have closed a public corruption case involving more than $100,000 in bribes paid to a public official for contracts that involved millions of dollars in janitorial services for DeKalb County and the Georgia World Congress Center Authority. The sentencing phase in January was overwhelmed in the din over the corruption case involving the city of Atlanta.
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ARC hires two new directors – Susan Chana and Sam Shenbaga
The Atlanta Regional Commission has hired two new members to its executive team – Susan Chana and Samyukth Shenbaga.
Effective March 13, Chana will become the regional planning agency’s director of its Center for Strategic Relations, succeeding Julie Ralston, who has just retired after 31 years with the organization.
Shenbaga has been named manager of the agency’s Community Development Division, succeeding Dan Reuter, who recently left the ARC.
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MARTA hasn’t decided on response to costly ruling regarding paratransit service
MARTA’s leadership has not determined if it will appeal a ruling that it must return its paratransit service to an in-house operation and compensate employees who lost wages or benefits as a result of the privatization of paratransit in 2016.
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Column: Eric Robbins reinventing Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta
As published in the Atlanta Business Chronicle on Feb. 17, 2017
After nine months at the helm of the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta, Eric Robbins is beginning to broaden the scope of the philanthropic organization.
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Democrats stress unity after electing Tom Perez as chair at Atlanta meeting
UPDATED with photos from KELLY JORDAN….
The Democratic National Committee came to Atlanta this week almost equally divided between two candidates for chairman – former U.S. Labor Secretary Tom Perez and Congressman Keith Ellison.
But on Saturday, after the election went to second ballot of voting, Perez won the chairmanship in a vote of 235 to 200.
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Atlanta Regional Commission’s Julie Ralston retires after 32 years with the agency
For more than 31 years, Julie Ralston has been the communications voice for the Atlanta Regional Commission.
On Feb. 21, she retired as ARC’s director of the Center for Strategic Relations – complete with a state proclamation, slide show of Ralston through the years as well as video, a reception following the organization’s board meeting and a party at Manuel’s.
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MGM Resorts’ Bill Hornbuckle makes pitch for a casino resort at DeKalb Chamber lunch
The 79th annual meeting of the DeKalb Chamber of Commerce featured Bill Hornbuckle, president of MGM Resorts International, as its keynote speaker.
It was a bit unusual because the state legislature is considering bills that would permit voters to allow casino gaming with a resort – but it is virtually predetermined that the main location would be in Fulton County, state’s most populous county located just west of DeKalb. Of course, the lunch was held at the Georgia Aquarium, which also is in Fulton County.
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Atlanta Magazine for sale, its future uncertain
As published in the Atlanta Business Chronicle on Feb. 17, 2017
Atlanta Magazine, a fixture on the city’s media-scape for 56 years, is for sale.
Emmis Communications Corp., an Indianapolis-based public company, which has owned the monthly publication for 23 years, has placed all its city and regional magazines on the market to pay down debt.
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Tech’s dean of engineering tapped as chancellor at University of California, Davis
Georgia Tech’s dean of engineering, Gary May, has been tapped as the next chancellor of the University of California, Davis. If approved by California’s Board of Regents on Thursday, May would start work Aug. 1. Tech intends to name an interim dean to serve while a national search is conducted for a successor.
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Funding dog, cat sterilization; removing a typo from ‘Go Braves’ specialty tag
The Atlanta City Council is slated on Monday to urge state lawmakers to pass a law that would increase the amount of money a state department receives from the sale of special license plates to fund the sterilization of dogs and cats. The bill also would fix an apparent typo on the state’s “Go Braves” tag.
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Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter receive Ivan Allen Jr. Prize in Social Courage
Rosalynn and Jimmy Carter were awarded Georgia Tech’s prestigious 2017 Ivan Allen Jr. Prize for Social Courage Friday – linking the legacies of two iconic Georgia political families.
It was the first time in its five–year history that the Allen Prize has been given to a couple rather than an individual.
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Atlanta City Council may tighten emergency contract policy, as second contractor pleads guilty
As the second contractor charged in a public corruption probe at Atlanta City Hall pleaded guilty Thursday, the Atlanta City Council is devising a policy to guide the award of emergency contracts.
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Climate & Health meeting takes place at Carter Center after canceled by the CDC
Nearly 350 people attended the Climate & Health Meeting at the Carter Center – led by former Vice President Al Gore – to learn of the public health impacts of climate change.
Originally, the meeting was supposed to have been a three-day session held at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But the CDC cancelled the event on the eve of Donald Trump being inaugurated into office, likely for pre-emptive political reasons.
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Column: Kelly Dolan leaving Atlanta Women’s Foundation as Kari Brown Love to step up July 1
As published in the Atlanta Business Chronicle on Feb. 10, 2017
Kelly Dolan, a veteran nonprofit leader in Atlanta who has been executive director of the Atlanta Women’s Foundation for the past four years, is moving back to Chicago to be near her aging parents.
The foundation’s board has named Kari Brown Love, vice president of development and communications, as Dolan’s successor. The transition of leadership will occur at the beginning of the nonprofit’s fiscal year on July 1.
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Atlanta to allocate $4.5 million to improve Proctor Creek, build trails
The City of Atlanta will allocate $3 million of a $4.5 million Proctor Creek initiative to build a seven-mile bicycle and pedestrian and bicycle trail, according to an announcement by Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed.
Stephanie Stuckey, the city’s chief resilience officer at a Climate & Health meeting being held at the Carter Center Thursday, said the additional $1.5 million will be invested in a study to improve water quality in the Proctor Creek Corridor.
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Atlanta preparing to buy land to improve access to Peachtree Creek trail network
Atlanta is making plans to buy a house and use its grounds to provide access to creek side trails the South Fork Conservancy has built alongside the South and North forks of Peachtree Creek. The city is willing to pay nearly $400,000 for the property.
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Atlanta moving ahead with restoration of greenroof atop Atlanta City Hall
Atlanta is poised to hire a Marietta-based green roofing company to renovate the 14-year-old greenroof that’s on the fifth floor of the Atlanta City Hall. The cost is not to exceed $135,000.
