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Fulton courts aren’t acting on evictions — for now
There’s more demand for rental assistance than nonprofits can handle.
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COVID-19 may cast shade on sunny local government budgets
“We just have no idea at this time what sort of expenses we’re going to have associated with this emergency.”
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Fulton plans to overhaul behavioral health delivery — after study
It’s expensive, and not ideal, for crises to end at an emergency room or jail.
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Fulton bill would give schools, cities some say on big commercial property tax abatements
“That falls on somebody, and if it doesn’t fall on the new folks … then it falls on the current taxpayers,”
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New Atlanta-Fulton library director invites you to stop by — and let children around you see you read
Make the library a stop as regular as the beauty shop or the pharmacy, says new Atlanta-Fulton library Executive Director Gayle Holloman.
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More legislative attention turning to ethylene oxide
Two bills have been filed and two more are coming.
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Divided Fulton County Commission approves $782 million budget
Some called for more spending.
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Fulton DA offering a remedy for false convictions
Between 3 and ten percent of people in prison are wrongfully incarcerated, said Aimee Maxwell.
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MARTA presents contract amendment to member governments
It extends the transit system’s basic penny sales tax for 10 years until 2057.
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Fulton County leader calls review of governance, services
Fulton’s cities now provide a lot of the services that county residents use.
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Fulton panel turns down Buckhead developer seeking incentive
It’s the first time this year that a proposal has made it as far as the board and gotten turned down.
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Fulton to test for ethylene oxide in air near Fulton Industrial
Fulton County is going to set up 10 sites to collect air samples near a Fulton Industrial medical sterilization facility that emits ethylene oxide, a cancer-causing gas.
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Decarceration activists bring message to Fulton County
Fulton County’s commissioners are open about the overcrowding crisis at the county’s main jail. Activists have a solution: stop what they call “over-incarceration” in the county.
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Viewpoint: Georgia has too many counties — and other jurisdictions — to run as well as it could
All this complexity makes government hard to understand, hard to oversee. And in a lot of ways, it doesn’t serve the people all that well. Still, there are yet ways to make local governments work better together.
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Developer property tax breaks in hot Atlanta neighborhoods raising questions
Atlanta and Fulton may be winning valuable jobs and investments via property tax discounts to developers; or they may be giving away something they don’t have to.
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40 days of Georgia legislature begin and Atlanta’s got a wish list
The Georgia Legislature starts its annual session with a new governor and a lot of new members. The city of Atlanta wants a couple of adjustments to state law, but that’s not all of interest to the city and its residents.
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‘The ATL’ board needs more visionaries and fewer political appointees
Atlanta is a city founded on transportation.
Railroads were the economic engines of Atlanta and the state. After the railroads, there were horsecars, streetcars, buses and pedestrian-filled streets that enabled the city’s growth.
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North, south Fulton leaders to seek half-penny sales tax for bus service
After months of public meetings and a study by consultants, a group of Fulton leaders say it’s time to ask the state Legislature and voters for a half-penny sales tax to fund faster bus lines.
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Fulton considers new rail, bus menu
The folks who lead north and south Fulton met Thursday to hear about some scenarios for major transit builds — the first step in a plan that could mean billions in spending over decades meant to relieve traffic and connect people to jobs.
