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When Wendy Kirkpatrick bought her Ansley Park house in 2017, she was drawn to community because of its history, its tree canopy and its quality of life.
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Maria is a longtime Atlanta business, civic and urban affairs journalist with a deep knowledge of our city, our region and state. Since 2008, she has written a weekly column and news stories for the Atlanta Business Chronicle. Prior to that, she spent 27 years with The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, becoming its business columnist in 1991. Maria received her Master’s degree in urban studies from Georgia State and her Bachelor’s degree in journalism from Boston University. Maria was born in Atlanta to European parents and has two young adult children.
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When Wendy Kirkpatrick bought her Ansley Park house in 2017, she was drawn to community because of its history, its tree canopy and its quality of life.
Trees Atlanta’s plans for its new headquarters on the Westside has received significant support from two major Atlanta foundation.
Arthur Blank’s soon-to-be-released book – Good Company – is a treasure-trove of secrets for business and life. Blank, a co-founder of the Home Depot and owner of the Atlanta Falcons and Atlanta United, shares his formula for what makes a successful enterprise – be it in business or in life.
It’s an ambitious goal – to make Georgia the technology hub of the East Coast.
As we approach the Nov. 3 General Election, Georgia’s reputation is at stake. Already, Georgia was hit with a ton of negative national headlines during the June 9th primary elections as voters faced a number of obstacles and delay in trying to cast their ballots.
For decades, the Chattahoochee River has been an undervalued amenity and unrealized opportunity for the Atlanta region. But that’s about to change.
Back when I was a student at Grady High School, I remember my Georgia history teacher pointing to a sentence in our textbook that said Henry Grady was a great Southerner and orator.
It’s an awkward time to bear the name – Henry Grady. Just ask Henry Grady III, the great, great grandson of Henry Grady, champion of the “New South” movement launched in the 1880s.
It felt like a gut punch. Losing C.T. Vivian and John Lewis on the same day – July 17 – was almost too much to bear. The phrase I kept repeating in my head was: “We are losing Atlanta’s greatest generation.”
The incoming president and CEO of the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta – Frank Fernandez – hopes to unleash the power of collaboration to galvanize metro Atlanta to address issues of inequity in our region.
