By Metro Atlanta Chamber Metro Atlanta is a global region, home to some of the most well-known international brands and game-changing innovators. The Atlanta Metro Export Challenge (MEC), powered by the Metro Atlanta Chamber, boosts this reputation by providing financial support and mentorship to companies looking to grow their global presence. This month, the MEC […]
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Chase CEO at Morehouse: ‘If you don’t have character and culture, you are not going to be a leader’
JPMorgan Chase Chairman and CEO Jamie Dimon visited Morehouse College on Friday carrying a figurative “Help Wanted” sign.
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‘Marriage Story’ – Scarlett Johansson, Adam Driver deliver Oscar-worthy performances
Filmmaker Noah Baumbach’s newest, “Marriage Story,” is the story of a marriage, all right, but a marriage at its worst point, i.e., a marriage in meltdown.
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Biomedical Equipment Donations With Training Lead to Sustainability
By Charles Redding Medical equipment is essential for safe and effective prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation. However, there continues to be a significant gap in the availability of quality, functional biomedical equipment in the developing world. In fact, The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that 80 percent of the medical equipment in developing countries is […]
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Untangling Homelessness: Thankful for Difference Makers on the Front Lines
By Ellie Hensley, Midtown Alliance A perennial issue in any urban district is homelessness. While nationally homelessness is trending upward and other cities have seen sharp increases in recent years, the City of Atlanta has seen a 25 percent decrease since 2015 (Partners for Home 2019 Point-In-Time Report, p10). Still, more work remains to be […]
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MARTA Bus Service Modifications in Dekalb County
By MARTA The Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) will modify bus routes 19 (Clairmont Road), 123 (Church Street/North DeKalb Mall), and 823 (Belvedere) in DeKalb County beginning December 7, 2019. The modified routes are as follows: Route 19: CLAIRMONT ROAD: Route 19 will be extended to serve East Lake Station. The modification assumes the Decatur Station […]
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Hurricane Michael, trust betrayed: Two city officials, others indicted in $5 million fraud
A 35-count federal indictment for allegedly stealing money from the Hurricane Michael recovery effort was released last week in Panama City, Fl. The sum of $5 million was cited in the case against five defendants – including the former city manager and the community services director of Lynn Haven, a town clobbered by the storm.
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Using software to accelerate new ideas: MARTA, UrbanLeap to test programs
By Guest Columnist JEREMY DEVRAY-BENICHOU, vice president of customer success at UrbanLeap
UrbanLeap is a small company that is among those contributing to a big change in the way cities, nonprofits, and organizations – including MARTA – evaluate new ideas before putting them into place.
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Rural teens flocking to cash-strapped education program; GBPI reviews dual enrollment
Students from rural Georgia are among the fastest-growing cohort of high school students enrolling in a budget-challenged program that pays for high school students to attend college class, according to a new report from the Georgia Budget and Policy Institute. Meantime, the governor’s floor leaders are heading an effort for the Legislature to contain the program’s escalating costs.
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BREAKING: Atlanta Housing settles long-running legal dispute with former CEO Renee Glover
By Sean Keenan and Maria Saporta.
A long-standing legal battle between Atlanta’s housing authority and its former CEO Renee Glover is coming to an end.
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Housing starts to tumble as state’s economy slows, GSU’s top economist predicts
A drop-off in housing starts in metro Atlanta will be one likely consequence of a state economy forecast to slow through 2021, according to a new report by Georgia State University’s top economist. A short supply of housing has already helped drive up sales and rental prices and fueled the lack of affordable housing, according to the Atlanta Regional Commission.
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Arthur Blank gives record gift of $50 million to Babson College
The Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation is making the largest grant in its 25-year history – $50 million – to Babson College in Wellesley, Mass.
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Metro Atlanta ranks 3rd in nation for green-certified office buildings: CBRE
Metro Atlanta ranks third in the United States for the proportion of market certified green space in office buildings, according to a new report by CBRE. The report comes as former President Obama is to take a stage Wednesday at a green building conference in Atlanta, and Georgia Tech has opened the ultra sustainable Kendeda Building.
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Housing authority CEO: Atlanta should shed stigma of so-called ‘public housing’
The oft-used term “public housing” leaves a bad taste in many people’s mouths, and according to Atlanta Housing’s new CEO Eugene Jones, it needs to go away.
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UNICEF’s Barron Segar to become CEO of World Food Program USA
Former Atlantan Barron Segar has been named president of and CEO of the Washington, D.C.-based World Food Program USA – effective Jan. 21.
Segar currently is executive vice president and chief development officer for UNICEF USA in New York City. Before that, Segar led fundraising efforts for UNICEF’s Southeast region based in Atlanta.
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In Kentucky and Louisiana, sheriffs and teachers mattered more than Trump
Trump’s opponents have trumpeted Democratic victories in the Kentucky and Louisiana governor’s races as a personal defeat for the president because he campaigned for Republicans Matt Bevin in Kentucky and Eddie Rispone in Louisiana. Trump’s supporters have responded that he made these races closer than they would have been, and credit him for the strong showing of down-ballot Republicans in both states. There’s a little smattering of truth in both these arguments, but not enough to make these races turn out any differently than they would if somebody else was president.
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How a Community Transforms, Part 1
By Kate Sweeney How did it come to be that a small city a full 30 miles north of the city of Atlanta set the precedent for so-called “urban” design — the sort of pedestrian-friendly planning that’s taking suburban and in-town neighborhoods alike by storm? In this week’s episode of What’s Next ATL, the podcast […]
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Celebrating the Environmental Legacy of President Jimmy Carter
by Georgia Conservancy Communications Director Brian Foster “My thoughts on conservation are grounded in a lifelong love of the natural wonders of Georgia and our responsibility to pass on the land, water, and forests in a better condition than we inherited them,” wrote President Jimmy Carter in his acceptance of the Georgia Conservancy’s Distinguished Conservationist […]
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Seven named to Georgia medical cannabis commission
This does not mean corner drugstores will stock tons of cannabis formulations anytime soon.
