By Paul Donsky The pandemic has changed so many of our routines: how we commute, how we shop, and how we spend our free time. A key question for regional planners and elected officials: How will this affect traffic on our roads and highways in the years and decades to come? It’s a complex, highly […]
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Conversation Peace: Meet Midtown’s Newest Sculpture
By Kevin Box, Artist at Box Studio LLC Note: Kevin Box’s Conversation Peace was installed at 10th and Peachtree Streets on November 11, 2021. It is the latest in Midtown Alliance’s series of temporary public art installations to occupy this corner. Midtown is home to more than 40 public art installations in a 1.2 square […]
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Giving Back this Holiday Season
“This year I’m thankful for my kids because they are healthy and also because we as a family have a roof over our heads. This year has been very difficult because of COVID but we have overcome a lot as a family,” shared Aileenayala, a Families First CHISPA client at a recent Thanksgiving event. The […]
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‘Tick, Tick…Boom!’ – Lin-Manuel Miranda’s love letter to theater
Lin-Manuel Miranda (yes, the guy who gave us a little something called “Hamilton”) makes his feature directorial debut with “Tick, Tick…Boom!,” an exuberant and heartfelt celebration of all things theater. Even the sillier and less attractive things – such as theater-geek ego and the-show-must-go-on myopia.
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Atlanta’s 1961 Thanksgiving Week – A football game, ginormous Christmas tree, and a little make-believe
By Guest Columnist BO HIERS, a semi-retired marketing officer in the reinsurance industry and super-proud grandfather of his beloved grandson, Fletcher
Thanksgiving week is – with apologies to a popular song about a different holiday – my most wonderful time of the year. If I could pinpoint a single year which kick-started my Thanksgiving fandom, it would be 1961. Like all second graders, I was blown away by large events with lots of people.
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Deal to give former park to developer in exchange for affordable housing raises concerns
The City Council has given a thumbs-up to a deal that would give the former Gun Club Park in Northwest Atlanta to developer Brock Built in exchange for an unspecified number of affordable housing units, developed green space, and a small parcel of land the developer currently owns. As of now, the deal is lacking specificity, but it’s already raising concerns about open bidding and a nonprofit’s longstanding effort to start a public visioning process for the site.
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Native America’s influence on American Democracy: the back story
More than 600 years before the United States existed, America’s original inhabitants were already practicing a form of democracy that Ben Franklin and other founders would later borrow from. Much of the framework of the U.S. Constitution came from the way 12th century Indigenous people governed, a fact the U.S. Senate did not acknowledge until 1988. American […]
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National group calls Georgia’s rental assistance program “one of the worst in the country”
The head of a national nonprofit has decried the Georgia Department of Community Affairs’ (DCA) Emergency Rental Assistance (ERA) program as “one of the worst in the country” and called for the state agency to either get its act together or let other organizations take the reins. The Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America (NACA) held a rally […]
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Goizueta Foundation makes transformational grant to Emory Brain Health
The Goizueta Foundation has made a $50 million grant to establish the Goizueta Institute @Emory Brain Health. The grant renames the Emory Brain Health Personalized Medicine Institute, announced in May, and will take on the Goizueta name.
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Reporter’s Notebook: Atlanta BeltLine’s Southside trail expansion on the horizon
Early voting is underway for the City of Atlanta’s runoff races and will run through Nov. 24. The mayoral seat has gone into runoffs, along with City Council President, City Council Post 3 At Large, District 1, 3, 4, 5 and 12. Two Board of Education seats are also undecided, including District 2 and Seat […]
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Monarch butterflies lingering in Georgia; volunteers sought to help monitor them
Monarch Migration 2021 should be about over in Georgia. It’s not. This has prompted butterfly specialists to ask citizen scientists for help.
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Reed dominated fundraising; Ends with almost as much as four top candidates combined
Editor’s note: See charts at the bottom of this story for campaign finance information. / Kasim Reed dominated campaign contributions in his losing bid for Atlanta mayor.
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Bostic, Donahue, Womack named as next chairs of Metro Atlanta Chamber
The Metro Atlanta Chamber announced the line-up of its board leadership through 2024 at its annual meeting Thursday morning.
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World-class scientists, feeble broadband: Georgia’s digital divide
Sapelo Island and its state-owned facilities are stark examples of the extent of Georgia’s digital divide. Broadband connection is tenuous at best, and threatened by equipment tumbling into a tidal creek that’s eroding along the edge.
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Ansley Park, Chattahoochee Brick site are among Georgia Trust’s historic ‘Places in Peril’
The entire Ansley Park neighborhood and a former brick factory infamous for abusing prisoners are among the “Places in Peril” on the Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation’s annual list of the 10 most endangered historic sites.
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Days before Russia blew up satellite, Georgia Tech partnered with U.S. Space Force
Four days before Russia’s successful test of its anti-satellite missile, on Monday, Georgia Tech announced a partnership with the U.S. Space Force to collaborate on aerospace research.
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Coca-Cola’s James Quincey to chair Woodruff Arts Center annual campaign
By Maria Saporta In an unprecedented move, Coca-Cola Chairman and CEO James Quincey will chair the 2021-2022 Woodruff Arts Center corporate campaign. The Coca-Cola Foundation also has made a record $2 million leadership gift towards the annual campaign. It is the first time in decades that a top Coca-Cola executive has taken on such a […]
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To comedy legend Jerry Farber, helping homeless people is no joke
Jerry Farber is a legend of the Atlanta comedy scene. But his commitment to helping those who help homeless people is no joke.
