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Anna Roach on metro Atlanta: ‘There’s something for everybody here’
For Anna Roach, being executive director of the Atlanta Regional Commission is the job she dreamed of getting.
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Why does a Moreland Avenue mega-project keep ignoring a mixed-use vision?
Fifteen years ago, the Southeast Atlanta and DeKalb County neighborhoods along south Moreland Avenue envisioned a more pedestrian-friendly, community-oriented future. They and a consultant team published a report of mixed-use concepts that has proven influential on several redevelopments in the suddenly booming corridor of strip malls and industrial sites.
Posted inThought Leadership
The Task Force for Global Health Highlights the ‘Pure Mettle’ of Global Health Heroes on the Second Anniversary of the COVID-19 Pandemic
By Gabriella Corrigan On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a global pandemic. Communities closed their doors, strapped on masks, and distanced themselves from friends and family. Most people believed these protocols would last for only a few weeks but two years later the impact remains: with more than six million […]
Posted inAllison Joyner
Black Women’s History Month: Dr. Audra Pittman wants you to ‘think about what’s next’
As the vice president of SCAD Atlanta, she works under the school’s visionary and founder Paula Wallace. By Allison Joyner As the world evolves into a cohesive space for education today, administrators are trying to find more effective ways to teach the next generation of scholars. “I think with academia, it’s hard for people to […]
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Florida’s Panhandle: Woes involve fire, hurricane, oysters, oil spill; plus politics
BAYOU GEORGE, Fl. – The environmental calamities continue in Florida’s Panhandle, where trees downed by Hurricane Michael in 2018 finally caught fire this month and burned across more than 34,000 acres before three separate blazes were contained.
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MARTA Interim GM/CEO Testifies as U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
MARTA Interim General Manager and CEO Collie Greenwood recently testified at the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs during an open session hearing entitled, “Advancing Public Transportation Under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.” Other witnesses were Joanna M. Pinkerton, President and CEO, Central Ohio Transit Authority (COTA), Greg Regan, President, Transportation Trades Department, […]
Posted inStories of Atlanta
Out of tragedy came opportunity
One of the more interesting aspects of a circus is that it is, essentially, a visual art form. Unlike almost any other form of public performance, television, radio or movies to name a few, one does not need to speak the language of one’s audience to put on a circus. And though the circus has […]
Posted inThought Leadership
Grants enable STEM-focused organization to adapt through COVID and expand reach into the future
Guest post by Tokiwa Smith, founder and executive director of Science, Engineering and Mathematics Link Inc. Since 2005, I have been privileged to do work that I am accomplished in and passionate about as Founder and Executive Director of Science, Engineering and Mathematics Link Inc. (SEM Link). In the summer of 2020, the philanthropic community […]
Posted inHannah Jones
Lower Paul Park: Decades in the making, sights set high
By Hannah E. Jones After decades of work, the City of Atlanta has officially secured nine acres bordering the Chattahoochee River in Riverside, creating Atlanta’s newest natural oasis — Lower Paul Park. Any chance to get away from the bustle of the city is exciting, but the folks in Riverside know this park represents something […]
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Fifth Third Bank Set to Expand in the Region with Empowering its Community as a Top Priority
Fifth Third Bank, the nation’s 14th largest bank, entered the Georgia market in 2007 by acquiring R-G Crown Bank, a Florida-based bank with three locations in Augusta. The following year, Fifth Third Bank purchased nine First Horizon branches, right before the start of the financial crisis. Since planting its roots, Fifth Third has continued to […]
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Chattahoochee Nature Center River Boardwalk Trail and Connection Bridge Dedication – March 15, 2022
Recently, the City of Atlanta secured nine acres bordering the Chattahoochee River in Riverside, creating Atlanta’s newest natural oasis. Read the column from Hannah E. Jones on Lower Paul Park.
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Peachtree Shared Street Removal Protest – March 14, 2022
Read Carden Wyckoff’s Guest Column about the Peachtree Shared Space project: Mayor Dickens: Move Atlanta forward with Shared Peachtree today
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From Sandy Springs to Mableton: New majority-Black cities are changing the Atlanta cityhood story
Buckhead’s tumultuous bid to break away from Atlanta has been scuppered for now, but its demise in the Georgia legislature made way for four new proposed cities, all in Cobb County. Three of those proposed cities continue the established Atlanta story about who tries to incorporate and why. East Cobb, Vinings, and Lost Mountain are majority-white […]
Posted inHousing Affordability
Cumbersome state zoning legislation would stymie affordable housing creation, opponents say
A bill cruising through the Georgia legislature that would add more obstacles to local rezoning initiatives could stunt efforts to ameliorate the housing crisis that has spread statewide, opponents told Atlanta Civic Circle this week. One way to create more affordable housing is to allow greater density in residential areas, but rezoning proposals generally face stiff opposition […]
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Public safety training center committee’s media-talk ban is based on unenforced Athens-Clarke policy
An attempt by the chair of the Atlanta public safety training center’s advisory committee to ban other members from speaking to the media is based on an Athens-Clarke County government policy posted on a website, internal emails reveal. But an Athens-Clarke spokesperson says that policy is not enforced and that its committee members talk freely to the press.
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Eleanor Ringel predicts who will win Oscars on March 27
Whose turn is it this year? A few weeks ago, I would’ve leaned heavily toward “The Power of the Dog,” a film that’s easier to admire than love. But now entities like the Directors Guild of America, the Screen Actors Guild and the Producers Guild of America have weighed in.
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Mayor Dickens: Move Atlanta forward with Shared Peachtree today
By Guest Columnist CARDEN WYCKOFF, on behalf of the Save Share Peachtree Coalition Organizing Committee
At 9:55 a.m. on March 10, minutes after receiving official notice that the Peachtree Shared Space demonstration project was being removed, I tweeted:
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What will it take to shake up America’s two-party political system?
Don’t get Marla Thompson-Kendall started about America’s two-party political system. “They’re both ineffective,” the Riverdale resident said of the Democratic and Republican parties. Although she’s voted for Democrats over the years, she remained open to what Republicans had to say and even came to appreciate some Republicans such as former president George W. Bush. “He […]
