A relieved Mayor Andre Dickens met with the highly influential Atlanta Committee for Progress Friday morning following the Thursday vote in the Georgia Senate that defeated efforts for Buckhead to split off from the City of Atlanta.
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Public safety a prominent theme at Buckhead Coalition lunch
Although the name “Buckhead City” was barely mentioned during the annual meeting of the Buckhead Coalition on Thursday, Jan. 26, the issue was definitely present in the room.
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Buckhead cityhood candidates lose in a still-blue neighborhood
Election Day brought more bad news for the Buckhead cityhood movement, as its endorsed local candidates all lost and the neighborhood continued voting blue in major races.
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Buckhead crime task force focuses on gang problem, but data has holes
Created by the City Council to satisfy one neighborhood’s myopic fixation with its crime rate, the Buckhead Public Safety Task Force is unsurprisingly zooming out to focus on statewide and national causes, to wit: gangs.
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New Buckhead cityhood bills provide more details on schools, bonds
New, more detailed versions of Buckhead cityhood legislation filed this week appear to be dead on arrival for this session, but are partly designed to survive for months or years.
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Trump announces support for Buckhead cityhood
Former President Trump has announced his support for the Buckhead cityhood movement as its advocates conduct a letter-writing campaign attempting to revive it in the Georgia legislature.
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Bill seeks to ban name of would-be ‘Buckhead City’
A bill that would ban the name of the would-be “Buckhead City” has been filed by a state lawmaker from the existing Morgan County town of Buckhead.
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In Buckhead cityhood debate, how do we measure crime solutions?
When Georgia House Speaker David Ralston (R-Blue Ridge) this month agreed to freeze Buckhead cityhood legislation, he also set ticking a clock for new Mayor Andre Dickens to address the big issue motivating it. The “crime problem,” Ralston declared, is “not solved,” and Dickens would have a one-year crack at doing so.
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Buckhead cityhood opposition group says it will keep fighting, too
The main opposition group to Buckhead cityhood says it will keep fighting, despite key legislation apparently being dead in the water, because proponents aren’t giving up.
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A blue Buckhead is cityhood’s overlooked challenge
By John Ruch All the sound and fury around the Buckhead cityhood movement made it easy to overlook its core political challenge: a Republican-based campaign trying to win over what has become a reliably blue neighborhood. Cityhood likely would have failed in its desired November ballot question, and even if it pulled off the upset, […]
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Buckhead City Committee says it will continue cityhood fight despite legislation’s freeze
The Buckhead City Committee says it will continue fighting for cityhood this year despite the legislation apparently being dead in the water – and indicated a 2023 battle is coming if necessary.
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Buckhead cityhood opponents claim victory as Georgia General Assembly leaders join them
Buckhead cityhood opponents are claiming victory after reports that the lieutenant governor and House speaker have declared themselves against the legislation that would enable the neighborhood’s succession.
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Cityhood group and Morgan County town may battle over trademark rights to the name ‘Buckhead’
Resentment about Atlanta’s Buckhead cityhood movement in the existing Morgan County city of Buckhead could come to a head in a legal dispute over trademark rights to the name.
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Republican candidate for Congress says he’s backed by Buckhead cityhood PAC
A new Republican challenger to U.S. Rep. Nikema Williams says he will be among the first candidates backed by a political action committee created by Buckhead cityhood proponents.
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Buckhead cityhood opposition takes the lead with strong partisan divide, opponents’ poll says
Opposition to Buckhead cityhood is winning over local voters, with at least a plurality and maybe a slim majority against it, according to a new poll from the anti-cityhood Committee for a United Atlanta (CUA). And the issue remains strongly partisan, with Republicans as the base of support in what may be an increasingly Democratic neighborhood.
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Buckhead City Committee sues Atlanta and mayor for allegedly violating free-speech rights with code citations
The Buckhead City Committee has sued the City of Atlanta and Mayor Andre Dickens for allegedly trying to suppress cityhood advocates’ free-speech rights by selectively issuing code violations for signs and parking at its headquarters.
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Meet the ‘Prison Dr.,’ the youth mentor pledged $1.25M by the Buckhead City Committee
The Buckhead City Committee’s extraordinary proposal to give or raise $1.25 million to a program for at-risk youths would benefit a one-man operation that began relatively recently.
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Buckhead cityhood leader’s service on state Board of Corrections raises questions of experience, oversight
With crime as a political driver of the Buckhead cityhood movement, you’d think much would be said about its leader serving as an official in the state criminal justice system.
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Opponents seek to force Buckhead cityhood into citywide, supermajority vote
Buckhead cityhood would require approval by a supermajority of Atlanta voters in a citywide referendum under legislation filed today in the Georgia House of Representatives.
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Alaska and Buckhead cityhood movements show similar ties to right-wing populism
A truism of the Buckhead cityhood debate is that it’s unique, this spectacle of a huge community trying to secede from a major U.S. city. Thing is, that’s not true.
