Atlanta was again making waves as the Georgia Aquarium ballroom set the scene for the post-COVID comeback of Families First’s evening of recognizing extraordinary community impact and raising funds for its wraparound social services and innovative behavioral health counseling for children and families. Beginning with the vividly painted story of Families First’s inventive case management […]
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Posted inColumns, Tom Baxter
As partisan divides sharpen, early voting takes root
Georgia’s primary election day is next week, but one result is already clear. Whatever reservations they may have about other voting innovations, voters have gotten hooked on early, in-person voting, and they aren’t going back.
Posted inAllison Joyner
No new developments as HBCU campuses end semester
A series of bomb threats and suspicious packages shook the schools within the AUC earlier this year. By Allison Joyner As the spring semester is coming to a close on most college campuses, investigating who has been executing a series of threats has not. From January to March of this year, Historically Black Colleges and […]
Posted inSecuring Atlanta's Future, Thought Leadership
Accenture Partners with Boys & Girls Clubs to Ignite the Unlimited Potential of Metro Atlanta’s Future Workforce
By Jerel Causey | Managing Director, Accenture | Board Member, Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta I grew up in small country towns in eastern North Carolina without many of the comforts I now try not to take for granted while living in the big city of Atlanta. My parents were the first in […]
Posted inColumns, John Ruch
In Georgia’s lesser-known companion case to Roe, the past may show abortion rights future
If the U.S. Supreme Court kills Roe v. Wade this year, so likely goes its lesser-known companion Doe v. Bolton, a Georgia case whose past may be the prologue of another generation’s abortion rights battles.
Posted inColumns, Maria's Metro
Metro Atlanta is riding the wrong bus into the future
We are in a moment in time when we can transform our region with a world-class transit network thanks in large part to the $1.3 trillion federal infrastructure investment.
Posted inStories of Atlanta
An ineffective good samaritan
If tomorrow you take a stroll down Peachtree street, the chances are better than pretty good that, at several points during your walk, you will be photographed. There are cameras everywhere, not just downtown but, well, everywhere. I’ve seen estimates that, on the average, we have our pictures taken between 40 and 75 times a […]
Posted inHannah Jones
Nature POP! at the Zoo — The “perfect union” between art, science and nature
When taking a walk through Zoo Atlanta this summer, visitors will notice some animals that weren’t there before. But unlike their furry and feathered neighbors, these animals are crafted from tens of thousands of LEGO bricks. That’s right, your favorite toy from childhood has come to life. Featuring 40 sculptures of animals and nature scenes […]
Posted inSustainable Communities, Thought Leadership
The Gap Report 2022
By Bambie Hayes-Brown, PhD, ThD., President and CEO, Georgia Advancing Communities Together, Inc. The National Low Income Housing Coalition’s newly released report, The Gap: A Shortage of Affordable Homes, documents a shortage of 207, 244 affordable and available rental homes for Georgia’s lowest-income renters, who make up one quarter of all renters in the U.S. […]
Posted inPhilanthropy, Thought Leadership
Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta convenes elected officials and nonprofits to discuss affordable housing in ‘Housing Our Region’ event
By Sidney Wise, philanthropic associate, Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta “The affordable housing issue is not my fault, but it’s my problem.” Those poignant words from Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens during yesterday’s Housing Our Region event, hosted by the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta and WABE FM 90.1 sum up the reality and the magnitude […]
Posted inThought Leadership, Views From Peachtree
Meet the New Kid on the Block – Spring Street Parklets
By Forrest Rose, Project Manager, Transportation & Sustainability, Midtown Alliance Midtown Alliance kicked-off construction of two new parklets on the west side of Spring Street between 8th Street and Peachtree Place. Sounds like good news, right, but what exactly is a parklet? Parklets originated back in 2005 when several urbanists installed an intervention in a […]
Posted inThought Leadership, Transit
MARTA Expands On-Demand Transit Pilot Program
MARTA Reach Provides Rideshare Service in Clayton, DeKalb, & Fulton Counties MARTA, in partnership with Georgia Tech, announces an expansion of MARTA Reach, a six-month pilot rideshare service designed to connect riders to-and-from MARTA bus and rail. The pilot, meant to test how on-demand shuttles can be used to make it easier and faster for customers […]
Posted inColumns, Eleanor Ringel Cater
‘The Lost City’ – Bullock, Tatum and Pitt deliver a ‘small pleasure’
Formula done right is one reason the lightweight romantic romp, “The Lost City,” works. Another is the unassuming, easy-going chemistry between its two leads, Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum.
Posted inColumns, Guest Column
All Georgians should have access to solar
By Guest Columnist ROJIAR ALDASHI, CEO of Better Tomorrow Solar. Making a difference for a better tomorrow often involves trying something new. For my family, that meant adopting solar long before it became popular to do so. For our region, that means considering alternative sources of energy today. Right now, there is a huge demand […]
Posted inLatest News
Music Midtown weapons ban is challenged by gun rights advocate
The Music Midtown concert festival’s weapons ban is being challenged by the man who just lost a legal battle for the right to carry guns at the neighboring Atlanta Botanical Garden.
Posted inLatest News
The green footprint Frederick Olmsted left on Atlanta
Activist, maverick and visionary — Those are a few words used to describe Frederick Law Olmsted, the iconic landscape planner. Even if you don’t know him by name, if you’re an Atlantan, you’ve almost certainly visited one of his parks. On the bicentennial anniversary of Olmsted’s birth — April 26 — landscape, history and park […]
Posted inLatest News
MARTA to study bus rapid transit on top end I-285 toll lanes
The possibility of bus rapid transit (BRT) running on new top end I-285 toll lanes will be studied by MARTA following a multi-government agreement signed May 11.
