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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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:
Major real estate interests in Atlanta, including Cousins Properties, Inc. and the Atlanta Hotel Council, said Tuesday they were blindsided by Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed’s proposed water and energy sustainability program.
Transit-oriented development now is becoming as common as highway-oriented development. The interdependent relationship between transportation and development has been undeniable.
But what about park-oriented development? Cities are now beginning to discover the economic ripples that come to communities when there are thriving parks close by.
Mike Dobbins is the first non-scientist to win Georgia Tech’s Innovation and Excellence in Laboratory Instruction Award, which recognizes his work with the CityLabs program in the School of City and Regional Planning.
Dobbins is best known these days for the reports and proposals his students have produced on sweeping urban redevelopments. Recent topics include Memorial Drive; Fort McPherson; West End; and Northside Drive (which influenced the debate over Atlanta’s provision of $200 million in bonds to build the Falcons stadium).
For more than two hours Thursday evening, four potential candidates for Atlanta mayor in 2017 discussed the city’s design and development issues in a panel discussion hosted by Atlanta’s chapter of the American Institute of Architects.
A report released today by Pew Charitable Trust shows that Georgia’s middle-class has shrunk since 2000 – even as the benchmark, which is median household income, plummeted by 18 percent during the period.
Here are the numbers:
