Trigger Warning: This story includes discussion of suicide attempts and suicide loss. If you or someone you know is struggling, call or text the suicide and crisis lifeline at 988. Laughter and heavy emotion shared space Oct. 15, at Skewed Orbit on Auburn Avenue, as community members gathered for Comedy & Conversations, an event created […]
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College Park fires another city manager during meeting of twists and turns
College Park fired City Manager Lindell Miller near the end of Monday’s City Council meeting. Similar to her predecessor Emmanuel Adediran, who was also terminated without explanation last May, Miller gathered her belongings and left the chambers after the surprise vote. Councilman Joe Carn, who called for the motion, voted in approval of the firing […]
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MTG goes Jimmy Carter, and Trump backs down
ess than a week after Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene appeared on The View, President Donald Trump abruptly folded on the question of releasing the Epstein files. There’s a straight line between these developments, if this wasn’t already obvious from their posts on Truth Social and X.
Posted inStories of Atlanta
Messages from the past
If you could leave a message, knowing that it would be seen for years to come, what would you say? Thousands of people took just that opportunity before the 1996 Olympic Games came to Atlanta. What they chose to say – and how they said it – is the subject of this week’s Stories of […]
Posted inKelly Jordan
Seen – ATL from above – Edited Google views – 2017 thru 2025
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Posted inMaria's Metro
Home Depot CEO Ted Decker: ‘the founders were brilliant’
Thousands of Home Depot employees were busy volunteering their time on a myriad of projects across the country in honor of Veterans Day. At the Store Support Center, a corporate headquarters for most companies, hundreds of associates braved nearly freezing temperatures to build a variety of toy houses or to assemble bicycles and wagons for […]
Posted inHigher Education
The Future of Aerospace Engineering Is in Atlanta
The aerospace industry accounts for over $12 billion as Georgia’s largest export and generates $57.5 billion in annual economic impact as its second-largest manufacturing industry. Georgia Tech’s Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering plays a pivotal role in this success and in advancing emerging technologies and educating a workforce to ensure the industry’s continued growth. It Starts With Education From startups to industry staples, the state is home to over […]
Posted inPeople, Places & Parks
Birds Georgia Announces Statewide Georgia Birding Trail to Celebrate Centennial
By Adam Betuel, Birds Georgia, Executive Director As part of its 100th anniversary celebration in 2026, Birds Georgia will launch the Georgia Birding Trail, a landmark legacy project designed to connect people, birds, and nature while strengthening the state’s growing nature-based economy. Georgia will become one of more than 25 states with a statewide birding […]
Posted inGlobal Health & Development
Newborn Hearing Screenings Set the Stage for Healthy Growth
Setting the Stage for Development New parents spend much of their time staunchly attuned to every smile or plaintive cry from their newborn. Equally important to a baby’s early development, however, is their own relationship to sound. Because babies begin to learn communication, language and social skills by listening to and interacting with those around […]
Posted inDelaney Tarr
Atlanta receives $29 million in loans to boost water infrastructure
The Georgia Environmental Finance Authority announced a hefty $29 million in infrastructure loans to the City of Atlanta’s water infrastructure as part of a $118 million statewide package aimed at improving water quality. In Georgia, three low-interest loans were granted. Each loan lasts 20 years and will cost the city about three percent interest. The […]
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Atlanta Women’s Foundation luncheon featuring Hoda Kotb raises $1.2M
The Atlanta Women’s Foundation raised $1.2 million at its annual “Numbers Too Big to Ignore” luncheon last month, continuing a nearly 30-year tradition of supporting nonprofits that serve women and girls across metro Atlanta. This year’s event at the Georgia World Congress Center drew 1,600 guests and featured broadcast journalist Hoda Kotb. The former cohost […]
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‘Nouvelle Vague’ is light, frothy fun for cinephiles
Before Jean-Luc Godard was a filmmaker, he was a film critic. And before that, he was a film fan. That fandom is part of the ethos of the French New Wave, the groundbreaking cinematic movement of the 1950s and 60s. Yes, those directors rejected the strictures of traditional filmmaking. Yes, they brought new approaches to […]
Posted inReporter's Notebook
Reporter’s Notebook: FutureVerse proposal, Mayor re-elected ARC chairman, Pink Pig is back
A proposal for a new Atlanta museum — FutureVerse Leaders behind the effort to develop a museum of the future in Atlanta gathered for a VIP-filled room on Nov. 12 at the Buckhead Club. “We are talking about taking a trip to the future,” said David Wynett, CEO of FutureVerse. “Tonight is really exciting because […]
Posted inCommon Chords
Stay Free: The Clash’s London Calling and the art of staying awake
There are albums that define their moment, and then there are albums that defy it — absorbing its chaos, rewriting its rules, and leaving the door open for the next generation to walk through. The double LP London Calling is that kind of record. When it arrived in December 1979, The Clash were no longer […]
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Runoff candidate forums set to tackle voter concerns
Local elections that take place without federal or state contests on the ballot rarely attract large numbers of voters, a political science professor at Emory University said. But next week, residents will have opportunities to hear directly from runoff candidates in races spanning Atlanta, South Fulton and Sandy Springs, as contenders participate in candidate forums […]
Posted inLatest News
Metro Atlanta Chamber looks to 2026 FIFA World Cup as city’s next chapter
The location for the 2025 annual meeting of the Metro Atlanta Chamber played on the theme for this year — the College Football Hall of Fame. Multiple sports celebrities took the stage, all proclaiming Atlanta as a special place to live. There was Ryan Klesko, who played with the Atlanta Braves when they won the […]
Posted inDelaney Tarr
Habitat for Humanity hands off ‘Golden Hammer’ to Atlanta ahead of Carter Work Project
At the site of Habitat for Humanity’s soon-to-be Langston Park development, the international nonprofit passed its “Golden Hammer” to the Atlanta chapter on Nov. 12 as it readies for the 40th annual Carter Work Project building blitz. From May 3-8, 2026 an estimated 2,000 volunteers will descend on Sylvan Hills to build 24 homes in […]
Posted inGuest Column
Georgia’s smartest tax strategy also builds tomorrow’s workforce
Georgia businesses are constantly seeking ways to reduce their tax burden, strengthen their workforce, and invest in long-term economic growth. Georgia’s new foster care tax credit delivers on all three. This isn’t a donation. It’s a dollar-for-dollar tax credit that allows Georgia businesses and taxpayers to redirect their state income taxes to a qualified nonprofit […]
Posted inAdrianne Murchison, Columns
Roswell looks to create a luxury town center while grappling with affordability
Roswell officials are envisioning the redevelopment of an aged shopping center that sits on 47 acres on Holcomb Bridge Road. The goal is to transform the property owned by Malon D. Mimms Co. into a high-end mixed-use town center that could serve as a cultural hub. The property is already named Roswell Town Center. During […]
Posted inAtlanta Way 2.0
National Center for Civil and Human Rights honors expansion with dazzling ceremony
Civil rights champions, thought leaders and supporters of the National Center for Civil and Human Rights gathered Downtown on Tuesday, Nov. 4 to mark the Center’s renovations with a ribbon-cutting ceremony. If the anticipation of the Center’s reopening wasn’t exciting enough, it was also, coincidentally, Election Day. Many attendees had passed through polling places that […]
