By Maria Saporta
As published in the Atlanta Business Chronicle on September 18, 2015.
How does one move forward by going back? Kim Anderson, CEO of Families First, has found a way.
Families First on Sept. 17 held a groundbreaking ceremony for what will become its new home — the historic E.R. Carter School on Joseph E. Lowery Boulevard — on Atlanta’s Westside.
“It is two miles from where we were founded on the Spelman College campus 125 years ago,” Anderson said.
Green Law honored four legacy environmentalists Thursday evening at the Nelson Mullins law firm while introducing its new executive director – Melissa Allen Heath – to attendees.
Heath is joining the GreenLaw firm after working for the Environmental Protection Agency Region 4 since 1987 – most recently as associate regional counsel.
It’s a mystery fit to defy the combined talents of Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot and Precious Ramotswe. And a petite Georgia archaeologist raised on caving and climbing is in the middle of it.
Over the years, Jimmy Sibley and I would joke about the “When I’m dead” column.
He would tell me certain things in confidence, and then tell me in his Southern gentleman’s way that it could go in the “When I’m dead” column.
Well this was a column I never wanted to write.
This may be a breakout year for millennials in metro Atlanta because the region’s current leaders are actively encouraging young folks to join them in the public realm. One question is the form the relationship will take.
Original Story on WABE by Maria Saporta Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter recently held an unprecedented press conference to disclose his cancer diagnosis and reflect on his life’s work. Carter, who will be 91 on Oct. 1, told journalists from across the globe that he has been as blessed as anyone. It is hard to overstate […]
Atlanta will observe June 26 as LGBT Equality Day in recognition of that date being significant on the LGBT calendar because that is the date on which the Supreme Court issued rulings on human rights, and it was the date of Atlanta’s first observance of Atlanta Gay Pride Day.
By Guest Columnist MATTHEW CHARLES CARDINALE, CEO and news editor of Atlanta Progressive News
As Atlanta’s City Council considers its next big moves on affordable housing and community development, decision-makers and stakeholders alike have the opportunity to benefit from a bold, cutting-edge policy tool: Affordable Housing Impact Statements.
Much like an environmental impact statement or a fiscal impact statement, an Affordable Housing Impact Statement would specify the estimated impact of certain public policy decisions of the City Council on Atlanta’s affordable housing stock.
For Atlanta natives and guests alike, the David J. Sencer CDC Museum is a hidden gem to discover at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) headquarters.
The campaign to save the Bell Building in the heart of downtown is gaining steam.
The Atlanta Chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA Atlanta) and the Georgia Chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA Georgia) sent a compelling letter to save the building to Brad Ferrer, an executive at CNN who holds influential positions at Georgia State University.
Georgia has declared the headwaters of the Conasauga River, in north Georgia, as the state’s first “Outstanding National Resource Water.” The designation provides the highest level of protection available under the federal Clean Water Act.
Previously, I wrote of a summer family vacation week in New England — Massachusetts specifically — and the intertwining stories of Georgia and the Bay State that we discovered.
This wasn’t so surprising, since both places share a common history: as members of the original 13 English colonies, having fought each other when the concept of the Union came under attack, and having joined each other to fight in two world wars. But our shared history can sometimes be obscured as we hear the differences between the North and South emphasized.
Suddenly, a dinner named after two Democratic presidents is politically incorrect. But the real problem is state Democratic parties are having problems selling tickets to their annual fundraisers as they lose influence at the state level.
BALTIMORE – Once upon a time, Atlanta wanted to create the same kind of magic that enabled Baltimore to build a tourism destination around an aquarium. Those days seem long ago.
By Guest Columnist MARILYN A. BROWN, Brook Byers Professor of Sustainable Systems at Georgia Tech’s School of Public Policy
Since the Industrial Revolution, the atmosphere has been the world’s principal repository for carbon pollution, providing a free-for-all approach to waste management that has resulted in global climate change with serious consequences for human and environmental health. Responding to the need for action, two major climate milestones occurred this summer.
Original Story on WABE By Maria Saporta Play Audio The new Atlanta United soccer franchise announced Tuesday that it had chosen DeKalb County for its headquarters and $35 million training facility. The DeKalb Commission voted earlier that day to approve the agreement with Atlanta United FC, one that would involve a $12 million investment by the […]
To call Atlanta an international city is to use the parlance of the day. Cosmopolitan, metropolitan, home of distinguished higher education institutions and leading cultural centers and sites, we daily speak of Atlanta in the world, and the world in Atlanta.
But to a degree that we often underestimate, Georgia and Atlanta have always operated on a national and even world stage. We are products of each other.
We have the power to work collectively to lift up struggling schools and ensure a brighter future for our children and community.
Under the Obama administration, White House officials have promoted U.S. trade and investments in Africa to supplement existing and ongoing development aid.
One critical step to securing Africa’s future is investing in its human capital.
The Mandela Washington Fellowship is a flagship program of the State Department’s Young African Leaders Initiative and brings 500 African leaders from across the continent to America for an immersion in Western practices of business and entrepreneurship, civic engagement and public administration.
We are accustomed to witnessing cataclysmic events of all kinds. These include not only the facts of shocking violence in the news, but natural catastrophes, too. For Hollywood, world-ending calamities are good for business. Though the mind reels, the ebb and flow of life motors on.
