Overnight success takes about 20 years, or so goes the maxim. Sometimes it can take nearly 60 years, as in the case of the Clifton Corridor – where the newly approved plan to connect rail service dates to a map unveiled in 1961, when President Kennedy was in office.
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Photo Pick: Science and art by Peggy Cozart
Peggy shares: “Science and art come together at the University of North Georgia. Based on the Eastern Box Turtle, this recent work was produced as a collaboration between the UNG science and art departments. On the biology side, the turtles were tracked and studied in the field. On the art side, students and faculty created […]
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An introduction of SaportaReport’s newest columnist – King Williams
It started out with a simple question, “Momma, where did the people go?”
I was a young teen at the time, and the seemingly simple question perplexed my mom and also perplexed everyone else I would ask until I reached my senior year of college.
“Those people” were the people of East Lake Meadows, a public housing project on the Eastside of Atlanta which sat right in-between the city limits of Atlanta and my native city of Decatur.
Posted inThought Leader, Transit
MARTA BOARD APPROVES HISTORIC TRANSIT EXPANSION
More MARTA Atlanta Investment Largest in 40 + Years The Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority’s (MARTA) Board of Directors made history last Thursday by unanimously approving the More MARTA Atlanta program which represents the region’s largest transit investment in more than four decades. “In Atlanta in the 21st century, transit is the lifeblood of opportunity,” […]
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Multiple choice voting? Same day registration? Georgia candidates give mixed reviews of voting variation
What if every election day folks voted more than once — legally — ranking candidates from first to last? Or what if folks who weren’t registered at all showed up on Election Day and got a ballot?
Posted inColumns
‘A Star is Born’ – Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga carry the movie
A star isn’t exactly born in the newest iteration of the well-worn classic. After all, most of us have heard of Lady Gaga somehow, somewhere.
Besides, this isn’t even – technically – her feature film debut. According to IMDB, she’s already appeared on the big screen in “Machete Kills” “Muppets Most Wanted” (as herself) and “Men in Black 3” as “alien on TV monitors.”
Posted inStories of Atlanta
It’s an origin story
The occasion was a somber one. A group of friends had gathered in an Atlanta bar to toast the memory of one of their comrades who had tragically died earlier that same day. As the drinks flowed, a plan was hatched to memorialize their friend by having an Atlanta street named after him. Despite the […]
Posted inColumns
U.N.-affiliated sustainability network to be recognized at Center for Civil, Human Rights
By Guest Columnist JENNIFER HIRSCH, co-founder of RCE Greater Atlanta, with GARRY HARRIS and SERENA NEWHALL, steering committee members of RCE Greater Atlanta.
Atlanta’s regional sustainability network, RCE Greater Atlanta, will celebrate its recognition by the United Nations University at an event hosted Wednesday by the Center for Civil and Human Rights, an RCE member organization. A program for youth leadership in sustainability is among those to be celebrated.
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MARTA’s surplus property: Managing excess a challenge in its own right
Even the graffiti artists haven’t made much of a mark on the latest piece of surplus property MARTA intends to sell. A YouTube video of the site has scored just 131 views in six months. But the sale of this property does speak to the ongoing management of a transit system that’s just approved a $2.7 billion expansion plan.
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A slice of Americana, the black powder longrifle, to make annual appearance
The otherworldly smoke and sound of black powder weapons will move from the fields of historic reenactments to the hunting tracts of Georgia next weekend, as thousands of hunters armed with muzzleleaders are expected to head out in search of deer.
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Critics rallying to “Redlight the Gulch;” call it a bad deal for Atlanta
But the crux of the anti-Gulch deal argument is that what the people get is nothing compared to what the developer gets.
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MARTA to seek its own lanes for streetcar expansion
In a car-loving city, MARTA planners are looking to get light rail its own lane as much as possible, as they plan a system across the city.
Posted inLatest News
Southern Co. on Vogtle: ‘ultimate outcome of these matters cannot be determined’
The following sentence concludes a federal filing that sets out terms of the agreement among Plant Vogtle’s partners that enables construction to continue: “The ultimate outcome of these matters cannot be determined at this time.”
Posted inSonam Vashi
Brookhaven council to vote on citywide affordable housing policy
The city’s planning commission bumped up a policy to set aside 10 percent of new apartment units to include the whole city.
Posted inLatest News
Former Georgia Research Alliance CEO joining Emory University
The Georgia Research Alliance’s Michael Cassidy is joining Emory University, according to Emory President Claire E. Sterk.
Cassidy will take a new position that is designed to provide vision and leadership to promote biomedical innovation and enhance the university’s economic engagement in the Atlanta region and Georgia.
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To enable redevelopment in SW Atlanta, sculptures to be moved to Pittman Park
Four cement sculptures that are part of Atlanta artist Fred Ajanogha’s series, “Strong Roots, Wide Branches,” are to be installed at Pittman Park as part of the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s efforts to promote economic development in Southwest Atlanta.
Posted inHistoric Westside, http://leadership.saportareport.com/historic-westside/, Thought Leader, Thought Leadership, Uncategorized
Two years of Westside Future Fund
By John Ahmann, Westside Future Fund The Friday before last, September 21, 2018, I was honored to give the second annual update on behalf of the Westside Future Fund (WFF). Just over a year after expanding our board and team, WFF has made significant strides as an “accelerator” of the revitalization of Atlanta’s historic Westside […]
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Affordable housing goals meet market realities in proposed Atlanta developments
For starters, the monthly rent is to jump by nearly 50 percent at one proposed apartment complex that’s to replace a planned teardown of duplexes located north of Atlanta’s Oakland Cemetery. This is just one of several developments that may give members of the Atlanta City Council an opportunity to ponder aloud the city’s state of affordable housing.
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Six months after Atlanta curtails cash bail, struggles for some defendants remain
Not all those nonviolent offenders who are now free from a bail bondsman have a home to go back to, or have the resources to deal with the mental illness or addiction that may be plaguing them.
Posted inTom Baxter
Karl Rove and the rise of judicial hyper-politics
The analysis of how decorum has broken down in the U.S. Supreme Court nominating process usually begins with Robert Bork and moves through Clarence Thomas to the present, sorry state of events. A 1994 Alabama race run by Karl Rove deserves more attention, because the venom which has been injected into judicial politics starts at the state level.
