People who judge, prosecute, defend and jail metro Atlantans are on ballots.
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Link up with the local folks on your Fulton County ballot
People who judge, prosecute, defend and jail metro Atlantans are on ballots.
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Link up with the local folks on your DeKalb County ballot
People who judge, prosecute, defend and jail metro Atlantans are on ballots.
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Link up with the local folks on your Cobb County ballot
People who judge, prosecute, defend and jail metro Atlantans are on ballots.
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goBeyondProfit: Georgia companies are defined in times like these
How companies respond during the current Coronavirus pandemic will impact the way they are viewed by employees, customers and the community.
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A show of gratitude
The Lord works in mysterious ways, as the saying goes, and, were he here today, the Reverend Frank Quarles would, no doubt, offer his personal testament to that adage. Like so many of his time, the Reverend Quarles was a former slave but he had also become an ordained minister and, as a freedman, he […]
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MARTA Celebrates 40TH Anniversary with Stakeholder Reception and Community Festival/Concert
By MARTA MARTA celebrated the 40th anniversary of combined rail and bus service with a stakeholder reception at Georgia State Station, followed by a free festival and concert near Avondale Station on Sunday, November 3 that drew a crowd of nearly 2,000. In 1979, MARTA’s first train ran from Avondale to Georgia State. The first ride […]
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Needed: Smart Governance
By Samuel S. Olens and Crawford G. Schneider The minds of entrepreneurs, technologists and new wave urbanists are consumed with the future of “Smart Cities”. However, too often, visions of Smart Cities are disassociated from the citizens themselves. That said, it is indisputable that modernizing the digital, physical and social infrastructure of a community can result in widespread […]
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Through Metro Export Challenge, Regional Companies Find Success Going Global
By Metro Atlanta Chamber Metro Atlanta is the gateway, through Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, to worldwide markets. The region’s traditional trading partners of Japan, Germany and the U.K. are bolstered every week by new additions, from Turkey to Poland and Finland. Exports form a critical part of metro Atlanta’s economy, and the Metro Export Challenge […]
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How is Midtown Going to Handle All of this Growth?
By Kevin Green, President and CEO, Midtown Alliance One question we’re asked often is, “how is Midtown going to handle all of this growth?” It’s not a surprising question. We did the math recently and since 2000, the 1.2 square-mile ‘core’ of Midtown has seen the delivery of more than 80 major development projects. That’s […]
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Who can help you tell your life story?
By Erin Drury Boorn, senior philanthropic officer, Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Life can often feel like a big checklist – groceries, laundry, work goals and more. At the end of the day, as you are falling asleep and thinking about what you did not get done today, you may start to think, “What am […]
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Climate Change Requires Action from Each of Us
By Deron Davis, Executive Director, The Nature Conservancy The City of Atlanta, Camden County and other Georgia municipalities are pursuing projects to address the immediate and future challenges that climate change will inflict on communities and economies across the state. From Atlanta’s Clean Energy Plan to Camden County’s innovative coastal resilience pilot project, forward-looking policymakers […]
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Season 2 of the What’s Next ATL podcast is almost here. Listen to the trailer.
By Kate Sweeney Season 2 of What’s Next ATL—the podcast from the Atlanta Regional Commission—is almost here. This time around, host Kate Sweeney (ARC staffer and former NPR reporter) is asking one simple question: How do we build the communities we want? From the big-picture prognostications for our next 30 years, to metro Atlanta’s changing […]
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Congratulations to Doctors Without Borders, Recipient of the 2019 Fries Prize for Improving Health
By Diana Robelotto Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been present in all major humanitarian emergencies over the last few decades responding to a growing gap in health needs across the globe. Their work proved essential, for instance, during the 2014–2016 Ebola outbreak in West Africa where MSF was at the forefront of treating […]
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Lessons Learned on Southface Institute’s Journey to Zero Waste
By By Samantha Shaye, Southface Institute The 3Rs—reduce, reuse and recycle—have been taught in many classrooms from elementary school. Unfortunately, most people skip steps “reduce” and “reuse” and immediately go to “recycle” or, worse yet, the trash can. But a world groaning under the volume of waste from its growing population needs to find solutions […]
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Any way you slice it…it’s a bad idea.
By S. Kelley Henderson, Chief Executive Officer, Action Ministries Continuing the topic of food insecurity, especially among families with children, we will take a look at changes impacting the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), as numerous proposals could go into the effect soon. The latest proposed change impacts eligibility criteria for families with children, potentially […]
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A conversation with TransFormation Alliance’s Odetta MacLeish-White
By King Williams The TransFormation Alliance (TFA) is a diverse collaboration of 30 plus partners – ranging from nonprofits, government agencies, business partners and MARTA. They work in advancing equitable transit-oriented development as a pathway to opportunity for every resident in Metro Atlanta, especially in minority communities. Odetta MacLeish-White is their managing director. King Williams: […]
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Low Tech Solutions Improve Health Outcomes in Marsabit, Kenya
By Charles Redding Photos provided by Partners in Care In many of the communities we serve we often find that people are afraid to go to the hospital. People view the hospital as a last resort. It is a place where many go to die, not a place to be healed and recover. And it […]
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If Fall Disappears, How Can We Respond?
By Alex Beasley, Donor and Public Relations Manager, ISA Certified Arborist, Trees Atlanta Atlanta’s summers are becoming hotter, drier, and longer. This is the new norm. Much of the world has undergone ‘climate change-induced seasonal creep,’ meaning fall arrives later and spring arrives earlier each year. As the tropics expand by up to .2 degrees […]
