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Dickens and Moore head to runoff for Atlanta mayor as Reed concedes
Andre Dickens and Felicia Moore are headed to a Nov. 30 runoff election for mayor of Atlanta as close third-place finisher Kasim Reed conceded.
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East Point resident fills local elections information gap with “East Point Votes”
Who is running for office? What is their stance on issues that matter most to me? These are a few questions that East Point resident Seth Rikard struggled to find an answer to during the 2017 election cycle. While the decisions of local elected officials impact us daily, finding information on the races and candidates […]
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$2.3 million remains to be spent in ATL mayor’s campaign; fundraising continues
Atlanta’s mayoral candidates reported $2.3 million in cash on hand with three weeks remaining before the Nov. 2 city elections.
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Mayoral and City Council candidates make their pitches on fixing Atlanta’s government
More than 40 candidates in the mayoral and City Council races joined in frenetic forums hosted June 8 by the Committee for a Better Atlanta, where consensus seemed to be that city government is a mess but you’ll have plenty of choices about who will clean it up. The city is guaranteed to have a […]
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Atlanta budget: Next mayor to inherit revenues that don’t cover expenses, for years
Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms proposes to plug a $53 million hole in the city’s upcoming budget with expected federal pandemic funds. Meanwhile, Atlanta predicts revenue shortfalls over the next five years as income from property taxes declines and expenses rise.
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Atlanta City Council President Felicia Moore kicks off mayoral campaign
Crime is No. 1 on peoples’ minds, but Moore’s also thinking of budget, infrastructure and more.
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Felicia Moore sets up run for Atlanta mayor
Atlanta City Council President Felicia Moore has filed the legal paperwork to set up a run for mayor.
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Conventioneers overlooked in Downtown mobility plan; entire concept to be reviewed
Transportation planners overlooked one aspect of Atlanta’s convention industry – the people who attend – and that evidently contributed to Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms’ decision to halt the first step in a plan aimed at making Downtown more pleasant for pedestrians. In addition, the mayor ordered a review of the entire Downtown mobility plan by the city’s newly approved Transportation Department, which is to be functional by late 2020.
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Former ATL mayoral candidate tapped to help oversee youth detention, rehab programs
Former Atlanta mayoral candidate Margaret Kaiser was appointed by Gov. Brian Kemp to the board that oversees the state Department of Juvenile Justice. The department manages the detention facilities and rehabilitation programs for youngsters convicted of crimes.
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Shorthanded city trust task force meets; mayor says it’s a challenge to enlist folks generally
Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms said people are second-guessing their decisions to work with Atlanta, and called on the media to do more good news.
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Police, potholes, paving dominate mayor’s town hall in Cascade
The mayor of Atlanta sat with her top staff and something near 100 written questions heavy on potholes and paving, received from attendees at a Cascade town hall Tuesday night. But the first question was in the form of a chant from protesters, demanding justice in the case of Jimmy Atchison, shot dead by a city police officer who’s now under investigation.
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Atlanta to end jail contract with ICE
Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms on Thursday signed an executive order that will end a deal that’s seen the city jail house hundreds and hundreds of detainees on immigration charges on behalf of the federal government.
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Atlanta executive order closes city jail to ICE detainees pending assurance that family separation has ended
Atlanta’s jail will close its doors to detainees held by U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement — at least for a while — under an executive order signed Wednesday by Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms.
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Atlanta mayor names three top leaders, moves airport boss to city CFO
Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms has named two city veterans to top leadership jobs, and chosen a new hire to oversee human resources.
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At first state of the city speech, Atlanta mayor strikes tone of togetherness
Atlanta’s a growing city, the crown jewel of the nation, declared Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms in a major speech on Wednesday. But she said it’s going to to need to draw on a spirit of inclusiveness and cooperation to help residents, communities and businesses that are being left behind.
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It’s a new day, says Atlanta mayor, just after subpoena news
“I don’t anticipate that this will be the last subpoena we will receive,” said Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms on Wednesday, a day after news broke that a grand jury has demanded city records related to former Mayor Kasim Reed’s spending in office.
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Atlanta City Hall recovering from ransomware lockdown, mum on what happened
Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms said it’ll be a marathon, not a sprint, to recover from a cyberattack that’s shut down some city online services and locked staff away from their files.
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Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, new Atlanta City Council take office
Under a sunny sky on a freezing day, with a half-hour wait ahead of them, a few folks were looking in the glass front doors of Morehouse’s MLK, waiting to head into the swearing-in of new Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, of Atlanta City Council members and municipal judges.
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Fulton elections boss says vote changes tend to be small after recounts
Hours after Mary Norwood pledged to request a recount in the Atlanta mayoral race, Fulton’s elections boss said that changes tend to be very small after a recount.
