When President Donald Trump begrudgingly scribbled his signature on the $900 million COVID-19 relief package on Sunday, he effectively cast a lifeline to the countless Americans — including many Atlantans — threatened with displacement amid the nearly year-long pandemic.
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Mental health: Take a walk, play with ducks, blow off steam with Gen Z lyric video
The summer smash refrain, “Lowkey F2020,” does as good a job as any of the surveys in summing up the nation’s mental and emotional health. One balm that still works, say those who promote it, is spending time outdoors.
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The ATL remains bullish on future of transit despite shocks of COVID-19
By David Pendered
The region’s transit agency sends an important message in its first major report related to the crisis that is the coronavirus pandemic. The ATL remains bullish on transit and its future.
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Carolyn Bourdeaux: Incoming congresswoman calls for more COVID relief funding
Incoming Georgia Congresswoman Carolyn Bourdeaux said Thursday the federal government needs to provide more funding to state and local governments to help them meet needs in communities during the COVID-19 crisis. She called for additional funding this year and after she is seated in Congress.
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City to invest $50 million in bonds to support affordable housing creation, protection
The City of Atlanta intends to invest $50 million worth of bonds to help produce and preserve affordable housing, officials announced in a Tuesday press release.
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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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Faced with a time crunch, city could cut COVID-19 housing fund in half
City officials could cut the $22 million COVID-19 housing assistance program in half, Atlanta’s chief operating officer Jon Keen announced on Tuesday.
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New grant aims to keep Atlantans threatened by eviction housed
A $400,000 grant from the Wells Fargo Foundation could help a legal services organization protect Atlantans from eviction amid the pandemic.
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As temperatures drop, city officials to open emergency warming center near downtown
With temperatures creeping toward freezing, the City of Atlanta plans to open an emergency warming center in Summerhill on Monday evening.
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Politics and bad math coalesce to numb our sense of pandemic’s toll
COVID-19, it was said many times during this election year, would go away on Nov. 4. There was that level of cynicism that all the alarm over the pandemic was merely politics, and would magically disappear after the election. This hasn’t proven to be the case.
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Air travel hit a post-COVID high. And Fulton’s hospitals are seeing more COVID patients.
Thanksgiving abstinence is not going to happen.
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State of the metro Atlanta region — it’s tough
Public health, race relations upend usual list of metro Atlanta concerns
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Georgia communities hoping for more federal COVID-19 relief funding
“We think the greatest need is yet to come.”
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Reporter’s Notebook: A good time for Georgia to address Stone Mountain’s Confederate status
Plus, Cobb and Gwinnett look to women, Democrats for local office.
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Vocalist/guitarist struggling through the pandemic on virtual concerts, music sales
Vocalist Sofia Talvik had barely gotten the words out of her mouth – her winter tour begins in a few days – when her adopted homeland locked down again to curb a COVID-19 spread.
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Atlanta Beltline Partnership, attorneys give crash-course on eviction prevention
Local leaders aren’t oblivious to the gentrifying impacts the Atlanta Beltline has had on the neighborhoods through which it weaves, but the economic side effects of the COVID-19 pandemic have exacerbated a housing crisis that’s for years displaced people from their homes.
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13 Fulton County election warehouse employees test positive for COVID-19
Nearly a week into early voting, Fulton County officials announced 13 of the 60 employees in their election warehouse have COVID-19.
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Early voting begins as Fulton County works to safeguard polling places from COVID-19
With three weeks until the presidential election, early voting is underway in Georgia. This process is expected to play a crucial role in the election, as many officials have urged residents to cast their ballots sooner to cut down on wait times and confusion at the polls.
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OPINION: With sacrifices, Atlanta can offset its staggering affordable housing shortage
These remedies, though, aren’t matters to hold your breath on; public and private leaders need to take action today.
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Atlanta businesses and nonpartisan groups partner to help elections run smoothly
The headlines on Georgia’s primaries were just as bad as the long lines, with some characterizing it a “meltdown.” Another called it a “debacle.” No matter the characterization, the uproar has led two nonpartisan grassroots organizations, GaVotingWorks and Georgia Support The Vote, to help businesses get directly involved in Georgia’s democratic process.
