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.
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.
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 ...
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.
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.
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.
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). ...
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.
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.
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.
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.
We wouldn’t be talking about Buckhead cityhood if it wasn’t for the landmark 2005 incorporation of its north metro neighbor Sandy Springs amid similar tensions over political unity and government services.
A new community group opposing Buckhead cityhood drew Mayor-elect Andre Dickens and other elected officials to its Dec. 9 kickoff meeting.
Bolstering the case for Buckhead cityhood are its advocacy group’s detailed claims of consulting public safety experts and cutting deals to attract new businesses contingent on the secession. But some of those alleged contacts -- ...
In some of the latest developments, a new opposition group has formed, oath of office questions have been raised, and the governor won’t say if he and Dickens share a definition of Atlanta that includes ...
A street attack and the quest to get it prosecuted as a Black-on-white hate crime has become a prominent part of the Buckhead cityhood movement, with the victims appearing everywhere from a ribbon-cutting to a ...
Many Buckhead residents are eagerly awaiting their piece of the Atlanta BeltLine trail and transit system. But how Buckhead cityhood might affect BeltLine planning and funding — there and citywide — is an unanswered question, ...
The proposal to carve out a City of Buckhead out of the City of Atlanta would be detrimental – financially, politically and psychologically.
Buckhead leaving Atlanta would likely have long-term negative effects on bond ratings in both cities and the metro area, according to two academic experts in municipal finance, supporting critics who say the secession would make ...
The Atlanta state legislative delegations’ declaration of war against Buckhead cityhood is being blasted as “hyperbolic drivel” by advocates, but reinforced by the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, which calls secession a “crippling blow” to ...
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