Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed’s administration claimed a victory Wednesday in the legal battle over his decision to terminate the employment of then Fire Chief Kelvin Cochran. As did Cochran’s attorney. But the case won’t conclude until after Reed has left office
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Final construction funding earmarked for PATH400; construction to begin in January
The last bit of money needed to complete PATH400 has been earmarked in city and federal funding, which is a significant win for Livable Buckhead, the non-profit entity overseeing development of the linear park.
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Linear park, partial road diet in works for MLK
Atlanta is looking to start a new phase of works along Martin Luther King Jr Drive, which will include giving part of the road a “diet.”
Posted inATL Business Chronicle
Column: Atlanta school gets an ‘A’ for landing jobs for its students
As published in the Atlanta Business Chronicle on November 17, 2017
The Cristo Rey Atlanta Jesuit High School is quickly becoming a national model among the 32 Cristo Rey schools in the United States.
“We are the only Cristo Rey school in the country that has every student in a paying job,” said Bill Garrett, president of Atlanta’s Cristo Rey. “We have 137 corporate work student partners.”
Cristo Rey Atlanta, a Catholic learning community that educates young people of limited economic means and of any faith, will graduate its first senior class in 2018. It now has 535 students, and every student carries a full load of classes and works five full days a month in a corporate work setting.
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A radical southern woman
A shocking act of violence stirred, or “woke,” a sense of justice in her.
Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin, a daughter of the post-Civil War South and member of a prominent Georgia family, chose to challenge her society and its beliefs about women and race.
Born 120 years ago this week, Lumpkin could claim a heritage that extended back to Georgia’s antebellum planter elite, and included a governor, judge, state supreme court justice, and founder of the University of Georgia law school (not to mention a county named in honor of her family). The Lumpkins also contributed sons to the Confederacy’s war effort and, like their planter neighbors, experienced the war’s aftermath as a personal and economic catastrophe.
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It’s simple: Younger Americans get short straw in GOP tax bill
Underneath the numbers in the Republican tax bill there has always been a fundamental political calculation that simple is good: that no matter whether they get much of a tax cut, Americans will like taxes that are easier to do. That proposition is about to be tested.
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In metro Atlanta, futures hang in balance as Congress debates immigration, deportation
His story would make any parent proud: The child prodigy earns a degree in fine arts while on a scholarship to Georgia State University, and goes on to open his own studio along Buford Highway. The problem is, he’s in the country illegally and is subject to deportation.
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Recognizing the economic value of the arts in Atlanta
By Tom Cunningham, Senior Vice President and Chief Economist, Metro Atlanta Chamber Last month the Atlanta Regional Commission produced a Forum on the Arts and Economic Prosperity. The event focused on the most recent in a series of reports produced by the American for the Arts organization that attempts to document the economic contribution of […]
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Civic Center sale to AHA places Southface campus on endangered list
For 40 years, Southface has been leading the way in making Atlanta a more sustainable city.
The environmentally-focused nonprofit has been a pioneer in green building practices – and it deserves much of the credit for Atlanta’s national reputation as a city committed to energy and water conservation.
But now Southface is facing its own challenges – likely having to move from its headquarters, now on a .74-acre site along Pine Street near Piedmont, where it has been since 1995.
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Seek and ye shall find, right?
The flood of movie stars visiting Atlanta in recent years not withstanding, Atlanta has had a long history of entertaining visiting luminaries, dignitaries, politicians and a host of other individuals who Atlantans generally wanted to be seen with.
The late 1800s was a banner year for visitors to the Gate City, not the least of whom was the President of the United States, Benjamin Harrison.
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Investing in a Healthy Future
By Charles Redding 2017 has been a difficult year for many. Outbreaks of infectious diseases like cholera and diphtheria have ravaged medically underserved communities in multiple countries. Poor healthcare in refugee camps has caused complications for pregnant mothers fleeing dangerous areas. The distribution of a faulty vaccine has left children in the Philippines at greater […]
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Art in Flux -Sorts by George Long at 8ARM 12/14. Photos by Kelly Jordan
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Photo Pick: Holiday on parade by Kelly Jordan
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‘Wonder Wheel’ – an underwhelming Woody Allen movie
Time was, when Woody Allen delivered a clunker, you wondered, in what back drawer the screenplay had been sitting — and for how long.
With his deeply disappointing new film, “Wonder Wheel,” you wonder how long the script might have been sitting in Clifford Odets’ back drawer. Or Arthur Miller’s.
Yes, it’s that stale.
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Georgia State University’s 2017 Year in Review
Georgia State had a momentous 2017. The news media, government leaders, and businessman and philanthropist Bill Gates, who visited the university in June, gave the university more national recognition for its efforts to increase student success. Georgia State also received recognition for its efforts in boosting social mobility, and received high rankings globally for its […]
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Report on ‘nuclear, climate injustices in U.S. South’ released as PSC weighs fate of Plant Vogtle
A new report names the South as the nuclear hub of the United States and calls for an end to all federal funding for Plant Vogtle, along with greater protections for women and the minority, typically low-income communities where nuclear facilities have been built.
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A DACA Dreamer shares his story, support for path to citizenship
By Guest Columnist JAIME RANGEL, a DACA recipient from Dalton who works with lawmakers from across the state, serving as a liaison between their offices and the Hispanic community
My name is Jaime Rangel, and I’m a beneficiary of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA. This federal program allowed me, and hundreds of thousands of other young people, the opportunity to work and study in the United States.
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Welcome to the Stage
By Doug Shipman, President and CEO of The Woodruff Arts Center Welcome to the Arts Community! That phrase can be applied in many different ways: it’s a welcome that has been extended to me many times over the past few months since I became CEO of The Woodruff Arts Center. A hearty welcome should certainly […]
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Atlanta Audubon Society adds four board members in effort to expand outreach
The Atlanta Audubon Society has added four board members as part of its ongoing effort to expand its outreach and restore habitats so they are pleasant places for birds and people to spend time.
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Atlanta Housing Authority board selects new chair
The Atlanta Housing Authority is heading into the new year with a new chair for a board of commissioners that also has two new fairly new members.
