The alternate route created when Martin Luther King Jr. Drive was closed to accommodate the Falcons stadium now has an alternate of its own, which is to remain in effect through the summer.
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McKenna Long joining forces with world’s largest law firm – Dentons
The Atlanta Based McKenna Long & Aldridge is combining with the world’s largest law firm – Dentons.
It is a combination that the key players of both McKenna and Denton believe will set the formula of how law firms will operate in the future. They will be global enterprises with “polycentric” home offices.
“We saw the opportunity to become part of their vision for the next generation law firm and to better serve our clients – locally, nationally and internationally,” said Jeff Haidet, who is chairman of McKenna Long and will become co-CEO of Dentons US.
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Wonya Lucas to be new CEO of Public Broadcasting Atlanta
By Maria Saporta
Wonya Lucas will be the new president and CEO of Public Broadcasting Atlanta – the entity that oversees WABE-90.1 FM and -Channel-30.
Lucas, an Atlanta native, will succeed Milton Clipper, who has been in that position since 1994. She was selected from a national search assisted by BoardWalk Consulting that ended up with 20 prospective candidates.
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Atlanta’s 2015 Peace Summit – its future is uncertain until May meeting of Nobel Laureates in Italy
The future of 2015 World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates will be decided in Rome on May 2nd and 3rd, according to a release issued April 7 from the international organization that oversees the event.
The Permanent Secretariat of the World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates decided to convene a meeting of Nobel Peace Laureates in May to try to settle the controversy that has erupted in Atlanta between the organizing leader and City Hall.
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Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus says Atlanta peace summit will take place
Atlanta will host a Summit for Nobel Peace Prize Laureates in November, according to a press release written on behalf of Muhammad Yunus, recipient of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize.
Yunus was instrumental in Atlanta winning the rights to host the event, to take place Nov. 15 to 19, from the Secretariat of the World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates.
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Woodruff Foundation trustee Pete McTier retires; Gellerstedt to take his place
The largest philanthropic foundation in the state of Georgia – the Robert W. Woodruff Foundation – on Tuesday said good-bye to one of its key trustees – Charles H. “Pete” McTier.
McTier, 76, who served as president of the Woodruff Foundation from 1988 to 2006 and has been a trustee ever since, has reached the mandatory retirement age.
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Nan & Britt Pendergrast celebrate their 75th anniversary with a love that’s here to stay
Britt Pendergrast was only 17 when he saw Nan Schwab for the first time at a party at Margaret Bryan’s Dance Studio on Peachtree Street.
That was 80 years ago. On March 30, the Pendergasts celebrated their 75th wedding anniversary – and on Saturday, April 4, they invited close friends to their home to share their joy.
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U.S. needs national strategy for seaports, says GPA director
When Curtis Foltz looks to the future, the head of the Georgia Ports Authority sees a day when ports around the nation won’t be able handle the demand for moving freight.
“Generally speaking, our ports are falling way behind in terms of modernizing, capacity, velocity, and utilizing capital,” said Foltz, GPA’s executive director since 2010 and head of the nation’s fourth largest, and fastest growing, container port.
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Poachers may be taking alligator snapping turtles, which can bring $10,000 each
Poachers may be to blame for the slow recovery of alligator snapping turtles in Georgia, according to the Georgia Department of Wildlife.
Wildlife researcher Rachel King reported that people she met on the Flint River during her survey of snappers last summer complained about the turtles being protected. They told her snappers are good to eat, according to a DNR statement.
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Transit funding provided in state legislation, priority given to roads in congested regions
Transit can be funded with proceeds of the transportation funding bill state lawmakers have sent to Gov. Nathan Deal, and priority for highway funding shall be assigned to congested regions of the state – such as metro Atlanta.
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Atlanta’s civic leaders celebrate Charlie Loudermilk at opening of Loudermilk Park
Charlie Loudermilk and John Portman sat shoulder to shoulder on a brilliant Tuesday in Atlanta as civic leaders thanked Loudermilk for his public service before cutting the ribbon on the Charlie Loudermilk Park.
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Woodruff Arts Center launches $100 million “Transformation” campaign
The Woodruff Arts Center held a Kumbaya breakfast Wednesday morning to launch its $100 million “Transformation” campaign.
The performing arts and cultural organization also announced that it already had raised $61.8 million towards its $100 million goal.
It also was the first time that anyone can remember, the Woodruff Arts Center brought together all of its board members as well as those of its various divisions.
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Mayor Kasim Reed willing to support 2015 Nobel Peace Summit in Atlanta – only if Mohammad Bhuiyan is not in charge
Mayor Kasim Reed is open to the city hosting the 2015 Nobel Peace Prize Summit in November in Atlanta.
But he has one condition – that there is a change in governance and leadership in the organization and that Mohammad Bhuiyan was no longer involved.
“The takeaway is that I’m willing,” Reed said of the city being part of the Summit. “But there is no path forward with Dr. Bhuiyan as the leader of the effort.”
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Ronald A. Johnson of Texas Southern University to be new president of Clark Atlanta
Clark Atlanta University has named Ronald A. Johnson of Texas Southern University as its next president.
The university conducted a nationwide search to succeed Carlton Brown, the current president of Clark Atlanta, upon his retirement on June 30.
Johnson currently serves as the dean of Texas Southern University’s Jesse H. Jones School of Business.
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Kasim Reed: Atlanta Streetcar’s fare to be free through 2015
The Atlanta Streetcar will continue its free fares through the end of the year, Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed announced at the annual breakfast meeting of Central Atlanta Progress.
The Atlanta Streetcar, which began operating its downtown loop on Dec. 31, was supposed to be free for the first three months. Then the fare was supposed to be $1 and be collected through MARTA and its Breeze card system.
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Andrea Young to join GSU’s School of Policy Studies as ‘scholar’
Andrea Young is joining Georgia State University as a “scholar in residence” at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies.
Andrea Young has been executive director at the Andrew J. Young Foundation working to preserve and leverage the legacy of her father – a former mayor of Atlanta who also was a Civil Rights leader, a U.S. Congressman and the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations.
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Georgia Legislature provides a few wins for environmentalists: Solar energy, plastic bags
Georgia lawmakers have resolved two bills in favor of environmentalists – by passing one bill that promotes the installation of solar power, and by killing another that aimed to prevent local governments from regulating plastic bags.
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Mary Schmidt Campbell named new president of Spelman College
Spelman College has named Mary Schmidt Campbell as its 10th president of the Atlanta-based historically-black women’s institution.
Campbell, who will begin her new job on Aug. 1 following the tenure of Beverly Daniel Tatum’s 13 years as Spelman’s president, is the dean emerita of
the Tisch School of the Arts and university professor in the Department of Art and Public Policy at New York University.
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Cobb Chairman Tim Lee announces bid for reelection in 2016, touts Braves move
Cobb County Chairman Tim Lee touts the Atlanta Braves’ relocation to the Cumberland area as he announced his campaign for reelection in an email sent Saturday morning.
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Mayor Reed’s office responds to report on proposed sustainability ordinance
Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed’s administration has what it describes as, “serious concerns over the accuracy of claims made,” in a March 24 report of an Atlanta City Council committee meeting on the administration’s proposed sustainability program for commercial buildings. The following is the complete text of a column produced by Denise Quarles, director of the city’s Office of Sustainability, in response to the story:
