By Ashleigh Dennis, Founder & Managing Partner of Versa Impact Group A metro Atlanta school district recently fired a teacher for violating Georgia’s “divisive concepts law.” The teacher read a book to her class that she purchased at the school book fair, a parent objected to the content of the book, and the district placed […]
Category: Uncategorized
Posted inPeople, Places & Parks
Doing Things Differently for Parks
By Park Pride’s Executive Director, Michael Halicki, and Director of Communications & Policy, Rachel Maher Einstein defined “insanity” as doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. For far too long, this has been the story of the chronic, longstanding underfunding of Atlanta’s park system and those who sought a higher standard […]
Posted inLatest News
Atlanta ranks No. 28 on annual ParkScore index
Created by the Trust for Public Land, the annual ParkScore ranks the 100 most populous cities based on five categories — access, investment, equity, amenities and acreage.
Posted inUncategorized
The City Center
It is Atlanta’s most historic intersection. But in the early years of Atlanta, Five Points was the junction of Peachtree, Whitehall, Decatur, Marietta and Line Street. Two decades after the Civil War, though, things changed for Five Points, thanks primarily to the efforts of one man as you will see in this week’s Stories of […]
Posted inColumns, Mark Lannaman, Uncategorized
Grounds breaks on project to bring 40 affordable townhomes to East Lake
By Mark Lannaman In late March Mayor Andre Dickens joined Atlanta Land Trust (ALT) in a groundbreaking ceremony for a project in East Lake that will bring 40 affordable townhomes over its lifetime. The Trust at East Lake will be “permanently affordable” according to the ALT. This is made possible by the two-acre land donation […]
Posted inUncategorized
Buckhead 2022 general election maps
Herschel Walker’s Buckhead Brian Kemp’s Buckhead Data source: Georgia Secretary of State, unofficial results with all precincts reporting, Nov. 10, 2022.
Posted inColumns, Tom Baxter, Uncategorized
Wheels of justice slow the pace of the case called Trump’s biggest worry
By Tom Baxter With the conclusion for the summer of the Jan. 6 Committee hearings in Washington and a flurry of activity in Fulton County, national attention turned last week to Georgia as Donald Trump’s biggest headache. Legal scholar Lawrence Tribe predicted on CBS that Fulton District Attorney Fani Willis would indict the former president […]
Posted inStories of Atlanta, Uncategorized
A look back at the summer of love
It was the sixties and hundreds of thousands of people gathered for a 3-day, open-air rock concert featuring a stage full of rock n’ roll legends. And while there was no tainted red rope licorice, there was enough to make it this week’s Stories of Atlanta.
Posted inThought Leadership
You Can Move Atlanta’s Parks and Trails Forward
By Rob Brawner, Executive Director of Atlanta BeltLine Partnership The past year has been exciting for Atlanta’s parks and trails. During the primary election on Tuesday, May 24, Atlanta voters can continue to advance the vision for a greener, safer, more connected city by approving three ballot measures that will provide $750 million for greatly […]
Posted inUncategorized
Georgia’s first Black-owned hemp farm commits to providing health and wellness products
In 2020, the state Department of Agriculture began issuing licenses to grow and process hemp. By Allison Joyner The Green Toad Hemp Farm, the state’s first Black-owned facility to grow the controversial plant, has quickly become one of Georgia’s leading hemp producers since receiving its license in 2020. “I didn’t know what I was doing […]
Posted inUncategorized
The inventor of the leaf blower on Earth Day: ‘You’re welcome!’
By Guest Columnist PETER BAHOUTH, former executive director of Greenpeace USA It’s been 52 years since the first Earth Day, and now it’s looking just the way we want it — green-colored and tidy! Believe me, it hasn’t been easy. So, you’re welcome! They say money doesn’t grow on trees, but I’ve been making cash […]
Posted inUncategorized
As housing prices soar, lawmakers debate the rights of private equity
Sandy Springs Mayor Rusty Paul told a story last week which helps to explain why home prices are through the roof across Metro Atlanta and much of the rest of the state.
