By Jim Durrett, President of the Buckhead Coalition and Executive Director of the Buckhead CID I am excited to unveil the results of a rebranding initiative to better communicate the Buckhead Coalition’s mission and improve engagement with the community. The strategic initiative has taken place over the past several months and involved key stakeholders, Coalition […]
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Atlanta Mayoral Candidates’ Forum on Supporting Children & Families
The opportunity gap in the City of Atlanta starts early. There are more than 30,000 children in Atlanta who are between the ages of birth to five, and their families face housing, health care, and child care costs that are increasingly out of reach. These challenges make it harder for parents to provide the support […]
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#MemberSpotlight: Sheba Ross, Principal, HKS and Chair, ULI Atlanta’s Center for Leadership Class of 2022
By The Wilbert Group We spoke with Sheba about what fuels her passion for architecture, her multi-cultural heritage, and her involvement in ULI beginning with YLG to chairing this year’s Center for Leadership Designing more than just buildings In 2016 urban designer Sheba Ross was part of a team at HKS designing the new building […]
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MARTA Partners With Dekalb County to Encourage COVID-19 Vaccinations
“Get Vaxxed DeKalb” Message Shared on Buses, Convenient Vaccination Site Remains Open at Doraville Station MARTA has joined forces with jurisdictional partner DeKalb County and CEO Michael Thurmond to stress the importance of getting the COVID-19 vaccine. The county’s media campaign “Get Vaxxed DeKalb” will be prominently displayed on buses that provide service throughout the county. “The vaccination efforts happening in DeKalb County are vital in protecting […]
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Journalists Help Bring Discussion of Mental Health into Mainstream
By Dr. Kashef Ijaz, Vice President-Health, The Carter Center and Eve H. Byrd, director, Carter Center Mental Health Program Journalists and the field of journalism are often criticized, in part because they have a habit of telling us truths we don’t want to know or discussing topics we don’t want to think about. But good […]
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Lost graveyard of zoo animals at Prison Farm may get a memorial
A lost graveyard for zoo animals may be memorialized in perhaps the strangest outcome of the debate over the future of the former Atlanta Prison Farm.
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How secure are U.S. elections?
U.S elections are secure, but recent partisan-fueled efforts to overhaul the process are undermining years of voting and civil rights progress. That’s the consensus of national experts who gathered Thursday to talk about election security. The virtual roundtable was the fourth installment in “Reimagining Democracy,” hosted by journalist and former CNN correspondent Jeanne Meserve. The […]
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How law students are helping fight Georgia’s eviction crisis
Amid a mounting eviction crisis throttling Georgia’s legal system, some organizations have enlisted law students to help people access rental assistance and avoid displacement. The Georgia Legal Services Program (GLSP), a nonprofit that provides free legal help to the 154 counties outside of metro Atlanta, is among the organizations that’s seen this “all-hands-on-deck moment” as […]
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‘The Card Counter’ – director Paul Schrader repeats bleak, violent themes
Whether he’s writing, directing or both, Paul Schrader has pretty much been making variations of the same movie since the ‘70s when he wrote “Taxi Driver.”
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Going from HUD to Integral, Denise Cleveland-Leggett dwells in possibility
After months of contemplating her next move and exploring her options, Denise Cleveland-Leggett decided to join Atlanta-based Integral Group to continue to push the envelope in the revitalization of urban America.
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Councilmember asks top mayoral candidates to sign ‘Buckhead Pledge’ amid cityhood movement
Buckhead-area Atlanta City Councilmember J.P. Matzigkeit is asking the top-polling mayoral candidates to sign a pledge to carry out 10 policy proposals that he says would address the controversial movement for the neighborhood to become its own city.
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Atlanta’s next solution to yard debris stacked on curbs: Hire contractors
The task of resolving Atlanta’s shortcomings in collecting yard debris has landed on the desk of Al Wiggins, the public works commissioner who’s been on the job since March 1 and has inherited a challenge that dates to at least 2011.
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Where there’s a wheel, there’s a way: One decade of breaking barriers of inclusion
By Guest Columnist BRENT PEASE, executive director, The Kyle Pease Foundation
Since 2011, The Kyle Pease Foundation has focused on generating awareness of inclusion and raising funds to promote success for persons with disabilities by providing assistance to meet their individual needs through sports.
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Tree-cutting road project halted Friday on St. Simons Island, near Christ Church
Tree clearing for a road project on St. Simons Island, near the historic Christ Church, was halted Friday afternoon by a judge at the behest of environmentalists.
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Atlanta mayoral candidate Felicia Moore unveils anti-crime plan
Mayoral candidate Felicia Moore, president of the Atlanta City Council, unveiled a multi-pronged platform to combat crime at a press conference Friday morning in front of Grady Hospital.
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Report: Atlanta rent prices jumped nearly 3 percent in just a month
Rent prices in Atlanta climbed 2.9 percent over the past month, according to a brow-raising new report by online rental marketplace Apartment List. Intown rents are also up nearly 19 percent since this time last year, after ten straight months of increases followed a brief decline last November, the report said. These price hikes put the median […]
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Reporter’s Notebook: DeKalb County Schools launch Mobile Learning Hub
Do you have a bike sitting in storage, collecting dust? Well, it’s time to bust it out because October is here, marking the start of “Biketober.” The month-long event encourages Atlantans to ditch their four-wheeled gas guzzlers in favor of healthier, more eco-friendly transportation. Participants that register and track their rides have the chance to […]
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“Pathetic and despicable”: Conditions at southside apartment complex underscore need for renovation
Tenants at a public housing community on Atlanta’s southside are begging for the property owner to fix up the virtually uninhabitable complex. Millennia Housing Management (MHM), which owns the Forest Cove apartments, told Atlanta Civic Circle this week that help is on the way, but residents say it’s not coming fast enough. After years of teasing a […]
