Four candidates want to be on City Council from a district that runs all the way from Atlantic Station highrises to the new Mercedes-Benz Stadium and the westside bungalows of some of Atlanta’s most storied neighborhoods — and some of its most distressed.
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Atlanta City Council candidate Q and A: Darrion Fletcher
Darrion Fletcher did not reply to requests to participate in this Q and A. Candidate website Back to Atlanta City Council District 3 candidate profiles
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Atlanta City Council candidate Q and A: Ricky Brown
Atlanta City Council would be the first elected office for candidate Ricky Brown. He spoke to Saporta Report via email. Campaign website Q: What’s your No. 1 concern for District 3 specifically? A: Safety, employment and equality. Q: What could you do as a Council member about that? A: Work closely with: the city, all […]
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Atlanta City Council Candidate Q and A: Ivory Lee Young Jr.
Some comments have been edited or condensed for brevity and clarity. Ivory Lee Young Jr. was first elected to City Council for District 3 in 2001. Campaign website Q: What’s your No. 1 concern for District 3 specifically? A: Balanced growth and development. Every demographic, every census tract is different. Every neighborhood has different needs. […]
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Atlanta City Council candidate Q and A: Greg Clay
Some comments have been edited or condensed for brevity and clarity. Atlanta City Council would be the first elected office for candidate Greg Clay. Campaign website Q: What’s your No. 1 concern for your district specifically? A: I think equity is one of the ones that rises to the top of my list. When you […]
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Georgia Attorney General: Immigration is an issue for Congress
As some states threaten the federal government with legal action over the immigration status of people brought to the U.S. as children, Georgia’s top official lawyer says that immigration is an issue for the U.S. Congress to settle.
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Grant Park residents pledge appeal to court over parking deck plan
The plan for the parking deck at Grant Park is headed to court, says the attorney who tried to convince the Atlanta Tree Conservation Commission that there’s fault in a plan that calls for chopping down 131 trees.
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Why Delta’s Richard Anderson went from planes to trains
As published in the Atlanta Business Chronicle on Sept. 15, 2017
Make no mistake about it. Richard Anderson is now a railroad guy.
Anderson, the former CEO of Delta Air Lines Inc., became co-CEO of Amtrak — the nation’s passenger railroad system — in July. His co-CEO is Wick Moorman, who served as both CEO of Norfolk Southern Railroad and as Amtrak’s past CEO.
“I don’t work in the airline industry anymore,” Anderson was quick to say in a brief interview on Sept. 9 when he was in Atlanta to be honored at a gala of the American Cancer Society. “I work for Amtrak.”
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Column: GeorgiaForward forum back ‘to talk about the future’
As published in the Atlanta Business Chronicle on Sept. 15, 2017
After a four-year absence, the GeorgiaForward statewide forum is back.
Georgia Forward is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization aimed at improving the state by engaging business, political, academic and civic leaders to collaboratively shape a statewide policy agenda.
This year, the theme will be “Defining Georgia’s Prosperity.”
“We will explore how you can grow economic prosperity for all of Georgia, including rural Georgia,” said A.J. Robinson, chair of GeorgiaForward’s board. “We like to talk about the future.”
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Ceasar Mitchell: City Hall corruption scandal is ‘distressing; and ‘serious’
By Maria Saporta Atlanta City Council President Ceasar Mitchell Wednesday afternoon issued a sharply-worded statement on the corruption case at City Hall in light of Tuesday’s indictment of Adam Smith, the city’s former chief procurement officer. Mitchell, who is running for mayor, has been spotlighting this issue of city contracts for the past several weeks, […]
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Atlanta bribery probe evidently continues, after former official pleads guilty
The federal investigation into public corruption at Atlanta City Hall evidently continues, following a guilty plea entered Tuesday. Atlanta’s former chief procurement officer admitted accepting more than $30,000 from a vendor who won millions of dollars in city contracts.
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Atlanta mayoral candidates sketch plans for arts spending
Atlantans packed a room at the Woodruff Arts Center on Monday night for a performance that can only happen every four years — Atlanta mayoral candidates bidding for the votes of art lovers.
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New Deloitte Report Establishes Metro Atlanta Number Two City for Digital Supply Chain
#SupplyChainCity Analysis places the region among top seven North American cities Today’s Atlanta-themed session at the CSCMP EDGE Conference launched a new report by Deloitte establishing metro Atlanta’s national rankings in supply chain. The region placed second among seven cities, behind only New York City. The Deloitte study found that 20 percent of the top […]
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“The Harvest,” a new documentary about the failure of integration, by Doug Blackmon
This week ALLISON HUTTON, of Georgia Humanities, discusses Douglas Blackmon’s new documentary, The Harvest, the subject of an upcoming conversation at the Atlanta University Center.
By Allison Hutton
On Thursday, September 28, 2017, at 5:30 p.m., Pulitzer Prize-winning author Douglas Blackmon and Rose Scott, WABE’s host of “A Closer Look,” along with special guest Lonnie King, a civil rights activist who was involved in the Atlanta student movement, will be at the Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library for a sneak peak and discussion of Blackmon’s new documentary film, The Harvest, which will debut in late 2018.
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Column: Families First names Terry Tucker its new CEO
As published in the Atlanta Business Chronicle on Sept. 8, 2017
Families First, one of the oldest human service organizations in the state, has named Terry Tucker as its next CEO.
Tucker, who has a background in technology, entrepreneurship and nonprofits, has been serving as the chief strategy officer and general counsel for City of Refuge, a nonprofit that has been working to improve lives on Atlanta’s Westside.
In an interview on Sept. 5, Tucker said he was drawn to Families First for two reasons: its efforts improve the lives of children and families, and its commitment to providing data-driven programs to measure its impact on people’s lives.
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MARTA – a jewel in metro Atlanta’s economic development future
All of a sudden, nearly everybody wants MARTA.
Metro Atlanta and Georgia have always been obsessed with economic development – attracting new companies to town or getting existing companies to expand.
So when Amazon says it wants to locate its second headquarters in a place with transit, it is sending a message loud and clear to our state and local officials that metro Atlanta needs to expand its regional transit system.
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South Africa: the roller coaster, the casino and sacred memory
In a more prosperous yet deeply uneasy South Africa, the United States has a smaller footprint than it had in 1994, and other powers are ascendant.
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Protecting Atlanta’s icons: Two sites placed on Georgia Register of Historic Places
Two Atlanta architects whose imprints have shaped the city’s landscape – John Portman and Henri Jova – have been honored through the listing of signature developments on the Georgia Register of Historic Places. The placement makes the properties eligible for state tax incentives and grants.
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Committee for a Better Atlanta scores city candidates
A group of Atlanta’s and Georgia’s business and civic heavyweights have given out their scores on the dozens of folks running for city leadership this year. Five mayoral candidates got a rating of “excellent” from the Committee for a Better Atlanta.
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Worldwide Disaster Relief: Together We Can Make a Difference
Monsoon flooding, catastrophic mudslides, multiple consecutive hurricanes, and record-breaking earthquakes. It seems like unprecedented natural disasters have been happening every day over the past few weeks. But what we’ve also found in that time is that incredible generosity and human kindness happen every day too. I continue to be in awe of humanity and the […]
