The Atlanta City Council on Monday is expected to approve a contract for nearly $1 million to hire a consultant to advise on safety and security issues for the Atlanta Streetcar.
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A personal story on West End hair salon that closed rather than pay rent hike
Atlanta City Councilmember Keisha Lance Bottoms talked Tuesday about her mother closing her West End hair salon when faced with a rent hike. Bottoms told the story while asking the Atlanta City Council to create zones where tenants and owners can’t be displaced because of rising property values.
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The Russians are coming, the Russians are coming, and no one seems to care
We seem to have a selective memory when it comes to the Cold War. A sequence of events that would have turned Walter Cronkite ashen-faced has gone largely unreported in the United States.
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A Trump presidency and a bullet train between Atlanta, Chattanooga
President-elect Trump’s plan to spur $1 trillion in infrastructure investment may coalesce just as the finishing touches are made to the proposal for a high-speed railroad to connect Atlanta and Chattanooga.
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How reality competition shows reshape reality
To understand the country Donald Trump will govern, we should understand how reality television imitates reality while diverging from it in its obsessive rituals of elimination.
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A 21st Century version of the two Georgias shows up on Election Day
If you had told a Democrat before this election that Hillary Clinton would turn Cobb, Gwinnett and Henry counties blue while improving on Barack Obama’s performance across the entire Metro Atlanta region, they would have gone to bed confident they were going to carry the state. Didn’t happen.
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ATL Mayor Reed on death of Gwen Ifill; honored in 2015 by Charlayne Hunter-Gault
Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed released a statement on the death Monday of journalist Gwen Ifill, who interviewed Reed for her book, The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama and hosted him on a 2012 edition of “NewsHour.”
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Atlanta may designate Pullman Yard an historic site to regulate any redevelopment
Atlanta is taking steps to protect the historic integrity of a property best known as Pullman Yard. It’s a collection of 11 commercial buildings located on the largest single tract of land in the rapidly redeveloping Kirkwood neighborhood, east of Little Five Points.
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Atlanta City Design Project to remain at Ponce City Market for at least four months
The Atlanta City Design Project will continue to convene public meetings at the Ponce City Market in space donated by its developer until the project can be moved to a yet-to-be-disclosed location in the Cascade area.
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Trump wins: A global wave hits American shores
We Americans like to think we’re unique, and that our politics is unique, and to a certain extent that’s true. Look who we just elected. But a lot of the contest and reality shows we watch in the States originate in Europe, and so, sometimes, do our politics.
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Americans show intense desire to be ‘finished with it’
Our voting system isn’t rigged, it’s jerry-rigged. This election year, with its shadowy suggestions of Russian dirty tricks, its last-minute court rulings concerning ballot access in North Carolina, and those malfunctioning voting machines, has outlined what amounts to one of this country’s great infrastructural failures in this century.
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Pogo on ATL affordable housing: ‘We have met the enemy and he is us’
Derrick Barker stumped the experts at Atlanta City Hall when he asked Wednesday what Atlanta can do to help him, as a residential developer, build homes that aren’t so expensive that most city residents can’t afford to live in them.
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Obamas are leaving the White House, but they aren’t going far
There are those who’ll tell you pretty fast that they won’t miss Barack Obama a minute when he’s gone, and others who dread the day he leaves office. Time will tell, in both cases.
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Talk of Atlanta’s affordable housing polices emerges in an unlikely setting at Tech
The latest sign that the high cost of housing in Atlanta is again a front-burner issue in Atlanta appeared in the unlikely setting of a panel discussion at Georgia Tech on the direction of land use in Atlanta.
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As tweets fuel presidential race, Twitter can’t find a buyer. Sad!
If you removed every newspaper story or television broadcast that had a reference to Twitter, you’d have a hard time making sense from what was left what it was all about. It’s hard to think of another medium which has figured as prominently in a presidential election.
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It Could Happen Here
By Guest Columnist MARK PENDERGRAST, an Atlanta native and author of “For God, Country and Coca-Cola,” and other books
I am afraid of Donald Trump.
And I am appalled that a sizable number of the American voting public – at the moment over 40 percent, despite the latest revelations of his grotesque remarks about women 11 years ago – thinks he would be a good selection as the next president of the United States.
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Millennials continue to grapple with housing costs, new report finds
As Atlanta civic leaders ponder the rising cost of housing in the city, a new report shows that millennials across the nation are struggling to keep a roof over their heads.
The report is especially timely in Atlanta.
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Atlanta BeltLine housing developers may be required to build affordable homes
Atlanta’s city code states outright that the Atlanta BeltLine will, “increase the affordable housing inventory.” Three city councilmembers have proposed legislation that intends to put teeth into this provision in city code, which the BeltLine has not been on track to fulfill since the council adopted the provision in 2007.
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Of Fox News, women, and the way it’s all turned out
You could say that this long and unprecedented presidential campaign has been book-ended by debates handled by Fox News, and that’s fitting. This has been a convulsive period for the country, and more unexpectedly, for Fox News.
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Atlanta’s top LGBTQ score reflects rare provision of transgender health benefits
Atlanta is among dozens of U.S. municipal governments that are providing equity to the LGBTQ community even as state legislatures are moving in the opposite direction, according to a report from the Human Rights Campaign Foundation.
