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Atlanta mayor announces policing plan and moves on jail-closing plan
Bolster support of police, reform policing, and still close the jail
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Thirsty People
In 1891 Atlanta’s Mayor began spending the City’s money, secretly buying land on the outskirts of Atlanta. It wasn’t a case of embezzlement, just good old business common sense. In attempting to solve one of the City’s on-going issues, the Mayor had made a decision, a decision that would not only affect every single Atlantan […]
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Reporter’s Notebook: Influential Georgians and research investment
Plus, catching up with a friendly neighborhood poll worker.
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A chance to chill
It was rumored to have miraculous, healing properties and, if the first-person accounts were to be believed, drinking the water from this spring was good for what ails you. Miracle cure or not, what it most definitely turned out to be was a really good business opportunity. It is the tale of thirst and the […]
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The last of his kind
Two men sit down for a conversation. As a result, one of the men, and influential industrialist and newspaper owner, commits his political support to the other man. This is enough to get the other man elected to the Georgia House of Representatives, where, according to the plan they hatched during their conversation, the new […]
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COVID pushed public meetings online; more Atlantans join in neighborhood planning
The digital divide is real, but a hybrid online/offline meeting model may bridge it.
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G.W.’s land
G.W. Collier was one of those Atlantans who got in on the ground floor of a good thing. When he first came to the region there was nothing but wilderness and Indians. When Marthasville was incorporated as Atlanta, he became the city’s 1st postmaster and to fulfil his duties, he purchased a small parcel of […]
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New study shows Georgia’s strength as a global health hub
Georgia leaders instinctively have known the state is a leading hub for global health. But for the first time ever, a first-ever “landscape study” has the numbers to prove it.
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The story of a friendly man
One of the early residents of Atlanta was Dr. Joseph Thompson, who had been lured to the young city by an old friend. Dr. Thompson had a well-known and respected 20-year medical career in Decatur but issues with rheumatism put an end to his practice. He was running an inn when J. Edgar Thomson, a […]
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Atlanta needs $2.6 billion for roads, bridges, sidewalks — for a start
The work would take 67 years if Atlanta doesn’t raise more money.
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He chose Atlanta
He was on his way from Covington to Newnan via a 2-horse coach when Richard Peters first laid eyes on the young city of Marthasville. It was 1844 and Peters, an engineer for the Georgia Railroad, was part of the team building a rail line that would connect Augusta to Marthasville. As he passed through […]
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COVID complicates HIV fight
COVID makes the fight against HIV harder, but also shows that the world can unite to fight a virus.
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From the story files of an Atlanta institution
“You want to be where everybody knows your name.” That is a line in the chorus of the theme song from the long-running TV show “Cheers,” a show about a fictional Boston tavern and its regular customers. “Cheers” was patterned after Boston’s Bull and Finch Pub, an actual tavern that opened for business in 1969 […]
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He didn’t stay long
It was not long after 3-railroad lines were connected to a central point in north Georgia that people began beating a path to Atlanta. Word had spread of the abundant opportunities and cheap land and those seeking better lives were arriving to the young city every day. There were, of course, those looking for jobs […]
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Couldn’t hold him down
Bill dreamed of becoming a lawyer but, at a young age, he had to drop out of school to help support his family. He got a job as a law clerk for an Atlanta firm where he discovered that there was more than one way to get an education. It’s the tale of the self-taught […]
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Fulton rolls out welcome mat for Microsoft data center
A Palmetto facility would get a $14.5 million property tax break.
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After election dust settles: Transit expansion continues in Atlanta, Clayton County
Transit expansion in metro Atlanta will continue in Atlanta and Clayton County. The region will go without eye-popping transit projects once envisioned in Gwinnett and DeKalb counties, nor will Newton County pilot a transit system, in the foreseeable future.
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Reporter’s Notebook: Awards for some, new jobs for others
Plus, Morris Brown closer to full accreditation
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Atlanta Council committee hits “pause” on tighter flood-control rule
An environmental update is going forward minus an attention-getting paragraph.
