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Response by Reed Administration to Saporta Report Columns Published on May 4 and May 11, 2015

ATLANTA – Fort McPherson is one of the most important properties in the City of Atlanta, and its future is worthy of engaged and spirited public dialogue.

Atlanta’s prospects of hosting the Nobel Peace Laureates Summit in November have become even more challenging as the deadline to present a solution to the international body has been extended until May 13.

Further complicating an already messy situation, three members resigned Friday from the board of Yunus Creative Labs – the entity that has been in charge of putting on the Summit. The three board members were Laura Turner Seydel, who had been chairing the host committee for the Nobel Peace Laureate Summit; Jason Carter, the grandson of 2002 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Jimmy Carter; and Willis Potts, former chairman of the Georgia Board of Regents.

The founding CEO of the National Center for Civil and Human Rights – Doug Shipman – is stepping down in early June – nearly one year after the attraction opened.

Shipman has been involved with the project for the past decade. It began as a 10-week pro-bono consulting assignment that turned into developing, opening and running the Center this past year.

TORONTO – Metro Atlanta leaders received a dose of reality Friday about transportation investment in Canada’s largest city.

The 110 Atlanta leaders on the 19th annual LINK delegation heard from a panel of transportation executives in Ontario about how much the Greater Toronto Area is spending on just its transit infrastructure.

TORONTO – One probably could not find two mayors more different that Toronto’s former mayor – Rob Ford – and its current mayor – John Tory.

Ford gained international notoriety for his drug and alcohol problems along with skirmishes and outlandish, yet strangely comical behavior as mayor.

So when citizens of Toronto – the largest city in Canada – went to the polls last October, they elected a leader who was the opposite of Ford.

TORONTO – The first stop for 110 metro leaders from Atlanta on the 19th annual LINK trip Wednesday was the “suburban” city of Mississauga.

But it was unlike any suburban city in Georgia.

Back in 1974, Mississauga’s population was about 250,000, the city’s chief administrative officer – Janice Baker – told the LINK delegation. Today its population is closer to 750,000 – substantially bigger than the City of Atlanta – the biggest city in Georgia.

By Maria Saporta The City of Atlanta has one more week to work out an agreement to host the 2015 Nobel Peace Laureates Summit in November. The 2015 Working Meeting of the World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates met in Rome on May 2 and 3 to consider the “impasse” that has developed over the […]