Calling 2020 the “most challenging year in our company’s history, Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian reassured shareholders during Thursday morning’s virtual annual meeting that the airline is experiencing the “start of a meaningful recovery.”
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GDOT looks to expand I-285 Express Lanes with greater role of private partners
Georgia plans to expand its use of private funding for new toll roads along the top end of I-285. The result is to be a network of two-lane tollways in each direction all the way from near I-20 East to near I-20 West.
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Atlanta crime: ‘We’re all seeing something different that’s a little more frightening’
Open defecation, a homeless man chasing little girls near a pre-school in Southwest Atlanta, and potential Chicagoland thugs marking territory in Atlanta were among the concerns discussed Monday during the Atlanta City Council’s Public Safety Committee meeting.
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Atlanta parks: Mayoral candidates offer ideas; study suggests a park authority
Park Pride discussed Tuesday results of a study that outlined a number of funding opportunities for Atlanta’s parks and recreation, followed by comments from four candidates for Atlanta mayor or their representatives.
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Arts project aims to nurture relation between Black community, arts institutions
The legacy of disconnect between the region’s BIPOC community and arts institutions with a legacy of white influence is addressed in an initiative that unveils its first product July 2 – a film of dance and music that explores a painting touching on themes of migration.
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Capitol View to celebrate Juneteenth with launch of community-owned affordable housing/business concept
Creating an affordable home for small businesses and local residents in a gentrifying area usually means hoping that some far-away developer will throw the community a bone. But at one site in Atlanta’s Capitol View, a social enterprise organization is trying to flip that script with a permanently affordable project the community itself would own […]
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Dry conditions expand across South Georgia, but nothing like drought, fires in West
Flies alighting on the livestock and pastures so dry that hay’s being fed to cattle are signs of dry conditions in parts of Georgia. But this situation is mild compared to the drought out West and fires devastating parts of Arizona and threatening the famed Boyce Thompson Arboretum and its Wallace Desert Garden.
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Decision time nears for bus rapid transit or light rail on Campbellton Corridor
Will MARTA’s new Campbellton Corridor service be bus rapid transit or light-rail trains? It’s time to get your final opinions in before the transit agency settles on an option later this summer. Whichever option is chosen for the southwest Atlanta route, be prepared to wait a while longer after this milestone moment. MARTA says it […]
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Reporter’s Notebook: Part-time pedestrian paradise coming to Edgewood
Georgia on My Mind … In 1930, musicians Hoagy Carmichael and Stuart Gorrell wrote the now-classic song. Many artists recorded the song over the years, but Ray Charles put it on the map. After Charles performed “Georgia on My Mind” for the Georgia General Assembly in 1979, it was named the state’s official song. The […]
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Rocked by payment scandal, Fulton Development Authority faces board shakeup
By John Ruch and Maggie Lee The Development Authority of Fulton County board has been rocked by a financial scandal at the very moment its membership is undergoing a reform-minded shakeup to include representatives of public school systems that are staunch critics of tax breaks DAFC grants to luxurious real estate projects. And more shakeups […]
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Georgia pays close attention to Trail Ridge in review of Okefenokee mine application
When Georgia’s state geologist wasn’t satisfied with calculations submitted about how Trail Ridge may be affected by a proposed sand mine along the Okefenokee Swamp, he went to the source of numbers used in the calculations.
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Mayoral and City Council candidates make their pitches on fixing Atlanta’s government
More than 40 candidates in the mayoral and City Council races joined in frenetic forums hosted June 8 by the Committee for a Better Atlanta, where consensus seemed to be that city government is a mess but you’ll have plenty of choices about who will clean it up. The city is guaranteed to have a […]
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Reed seeks return to Atlanta mayor’s office
The rumors are true: Kasim Reed aims to return to the Atlanta mayor’s office. Reed, who served as mayor in 2010-2018, made his long-rumored shakeup of the race official on June 9 by filing to raise money for a campaign. Incumbent Keisha Lance Bottoms, a protege of Reed, chose not to run for reelection on […]
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Atlanta pays $300,000 to settle sexual harassment case filed when mayor took office
Atlanta has agreed to pay $300,000 to settle a lawsuit alleging sexual harassment and toxic workplace filed in 2018 by a female employee whose complaints about a male colleague were found credible by a federal judge in Atlanta.
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Families First on the rebound – focusing on making families more resilient
A couple of years ago, one of Georgia’s oldest nonprofit organizations – Families First – was struggling with a turnover in leadership for the past several years.
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Zell Miller Foundation offers new way to pay for class
Calling all current and future Georgia college students — a new way to help cover the cost of tuition is here. The Shirley Miller Scholarship is now available to anyone who qualifies for the HOPE Scholarship, which requires a full-time schedule and at least a 3.0 GPA. The mission is to cover the funding gap […]
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Blackhall Studios sale did not include 40 acres once in DeKalb County’s Intrenchment Creek Park
Blackhall Studios founder Ryan Millsap has indicated he still controls the 40 acres of land within Intrenchment Creek Park that Blackhall Studios acquired in a land swap with DeKalb County. A lawsuit seeking to void the swap remains pending.
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Streetcar extension to BeltLine draws excitement, but concerns on pace and equity
MARTA’s new momentum toward extending the Atlanta Streetcar onto the Atlanta BeltLine by 2027 is “historic” but still too slow, some transit advocates say, and an example of how new federal funding can spur projects while raising questions of equity in which get money first. Meanwhile, MARTA has revealed key information about the project not […]
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CDC eviction ban reaches Supreme Court; Atlanta case a vital piece in Covid debate
A lawyer handling the federal appeal in Atlanta of the CDC eviction moratorium on tenants during the Covid pandemic said Friday he holds little hope the Supreme Court will use a case it received Thursday to stop the moratorium.
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Port of Savannah’s growth often touted without mentioning impact on ATL traffic
Atlanta’s traffic congestion often isn’t mentioned in the reports of epic growth involving the state-owned Port of Savannah. This remains the case with the recently announced purchase of about 2,284 acres for a planned industrial center along I-16, 28 miles west of the port.
