By Isabelle Monlouis The Atlanta metropolitan area is one of the broadest and most diverse entrepreneurial markets in the nation. Among other 2018 accolades, The ATL has been named the top city for startups that isn’t New York or San Francisco, 4th in the U.S. for the greatest average number of female-owned businesses and a […]
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Non-profit climate group campaigns for new taxes to combat rising sea levels
The passage of a $192 million bond referendum in Miami last year established that taxpayers are willing to shoulder debt to ward off rising sea levels. A group that helped fund that campaign is connected to a digital company that now offers free science-based predictions on rising sea levels along Georgia’s coast.
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Solving Atlanta’s craft labor shortage: Changing perceptions, continuing education
By Guest Columnist KEVIN KUNTZ, president of the Southeast Division of McCarthy Building Co., Inc. and president of the Associated General Contractors of Georgia
The metro Atlanta landscape is rapidly changing, with a number of new developments on the horizon. The region is one of the United States more active construction markets, with a number of large-scale construction projects….
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Developer gets green light for TOD at Peachtree Center MARTA Station
A developer seeking to do a transit-oriented development at the Peachtree Center MARTA Station got a green light Thursday at an agency committee meeting.
MARTA recommended the venture of RD Management and Kelco/FB Winecoff LLC as the preferred developer to build on the southwest corner of the MARTA Peachtree Center Station – a small piece of property that’s only 8,000 square feet.
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Sea turtle nesting on Georgia’s coast off last year’s pace
As the sea turtle nesting season winds down along Georgia’s coast, the number of nests appears to have dropped by about 21 percent compared to this time last year, according to preliminary data compiled by seaturtle.org.
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Georgia candidates start new round of campaigning with talk of jobs, values
After both parties (mostly) picked their candidate teams this week, Democrats were quick to make a pitch as the party of jobs in a business-friendly Georgia. And Republicans talked about jobs too, but the GOP kicked off its unified campaigning with a rally heavy on conservative values.
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Bacterial testing of river water a new feature of Float on the Flint this autumn
The fifth annual Fall Float on the Flint River event this autumn offers a new attraction – the monitoring of bacterial levels in the river in light of the release of up to 1 million gallons of raw sewage into the river this summer from sewage facilities in Albany.
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Activists call on Atlanta to shut out ICE
“It shouldn’t be that Atlanta, an icon of the civil rights movement, has six minutes from here a detention center.”
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DeKalb County’s fiscal posture improving, but not out of the woods, Moody’s reports
Analysts with Moody’s Investors Service thought enough of DeKalb County CEO Michael Thurmond’s promise to balance the county’s budget to include the promise in their credit analysis of the county.
It’s only only a passing comment. But given the gravity of these credit analyses, its inclusion in the July 18 report is noteworthy:
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Let’s Keep Little Five Points Weird
By Matt Terrell (of Dad’s Garage)I firmly believe that a city of our size needs a neighborhood for artists, punks, goths, emos, street poets, and other weirdos to congregate. What makes a community vibrant is the range of people and experiences that that define life there. Not everyone in our society is meant to be […]
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Let's Keep Little Five Points Weird
By Matt Terrell (of Dad’s Garage)I firmly believe that a city of our size needs a neighborhood for artists, punks, goths, emos, street poets, and other weirdos to congregate. What makes a community vibrant is the range of people and experiences that that define life there. Not everyone in our society is meant to be […]
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More MARTA? More art too
By Lyle V. Harris
Once an ugly duckling, MARTA is getting a much-needed artistic makeover for its rail stations and other humdrum infrastructure in hopes of becoming more inviting to its customers and the community it serves.
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Operation HOPE receives fourth consecutive 4-Star Rating from Charity Navigator
Global financial dignity and economic empowerment nonprofit Operation HOPE, Inc. has received its fourth consecutive 4-star rating from the nonprofit evaluator, Charity Navigator, for demonstrating strong financial health and commitment to accountability and transparency. The coveted 4-star rating is Charity Navigator’s highest rating. “Only 13 percent of all nonprofits we rate have received at least […]
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In Birmingham, a rare look at how the hand fits into the glove
Goodness knows we have enough political entertainment here in Georgia, with one of our legislators biting a fake penis and yanking down his britches on TV, and dueling endorsements from the president and the governor. But something important has been happening in Birmingham.
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A holistic approach to provide affordable houses in distressed South DeKalb
A new, $20 million initiative that’s to provide 100 affordable homes – and improve the quality of life – in South DeKalb County could become a model for supporting distressed suburban neighborhoods, which have emerged as the epicenter of poverty since the Great Recession.
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Now is a good time to create a City of Atlanta transportation department
When contemplating a vision for Atlanta’s future, transportation issues often are a centerpiece of how we envision our city.
The assumption of the Atlanta City Design Project is that the city’s population will double or even triple over the next 30 years.
So the challenge facing Atlanta is how do we incorporate more people living within the city limits without having complete gridlock on our city’s streets.
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New ‘Mamma Mia’ movie: summer silliness that goes down easily
My friend says there are two kinds of people in the world:
Those who can’t wait for another “Mamma Mia” movie and those who can.
I’m pretty firmly in the latter camp, but that doesn’t mean “Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again” poses a particular hardship. In fact, like a drink with an umbrella, it goes down rather easily. It does, however, lack two things: Meryl Streep and a Greek island.
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On ‘Spanish Flu’ Centennial Year, New Funding Renews Push for Universal Flu Vaccine
By Joseph Bresee, MD, Director of the Partnership for Influenza Vaccine Introduction at The Task Force for Global Health. The development of a universal influenza vaccine has long been a public health goal, but it has thus far proven elusive. The April announcement of a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Page Family (Larry Page, […]
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A return visit
In November of 1864, having occupied Atlanta for a little over two months, William Sherman left the city to continue his march to the sea. About three miles out, he paused briefly and gazed back at Atlanta. Years later he wrote of that moment, “Behind us lay Atlanta smoldering and in ruins, the black smoke […]
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Giving a Lyft to Those in Need
Did you know that just last year, United Way’s 2-1-1 network – contact centers across the country connecting families with the community-based resources they need to thrive – received more than 250,000 transportation requests nationwide? And that 20 percent of those requests couldn’t be met with existing resources? That’s why United Way of Greater Atlanta’s […]
