That quaint custom by which we give up an hour every spring in order to get an extra hour back in the fall is under attack on both coasts. Oddly, this effort to decouple our clocks is going on while the country seems to be coming apart all at once.
Tag: politics
Posted inColumns, Guest Column, Main Slider
Transit expansion is a simple decision, not a political one, whose time has come
By Guest Columnist JOHN MATTHEWS, a commercial real estate investor and an MBA graduate of Goizueta Business School
A debate seems to still be occurring in Georgia and our legislature about transit versus roads for the Atlanta region. Still? It is time for the debate to stop, and it is time to begin implementing solutions. Because the logic of transit is not a subject of debate.
Posted inLatest News, Maria Saporta
Fulton, Atlanta weigh local legislation route to fund transportation
Fulton County Commission Chairman John Eaves met with Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed last week to work on possible “local legislation” compromise for transportation funding that would address MARTA’s expansion plans.
Posted inDavid Pendered, Latest News, Main Slider
Coca-Cola Co. among 60 corporations backing federal ban on discrimination based on sexual orientation
Atlanta-based Coca-Cola Co. is among 60 major corporations that have the launched the Business Coalition for Equity Act, which is to promote passage of civil rights legislation that seeks to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, according to the Human Rights Campaign.
Posted inDavid Pendered, Latest News, Main Slider
New Atlanta forum to seek strategies to improve city
Atlanta has an additional citywide forum to discuss civic concerns, this one created by Atlanta City Councilmember Michael Julian Bond to focus on policy affairs.
Posted inColumns, Latest News, Main Slider, Maynard Eaton
The “Furious Five”: A sizzling Atlanta urban Republican dialogue. Where is Black Atlanta in the “All of It”?
I now call them the “Furious Five” – an eclectic crew of friends and political knowers – who were invited to participate in the first of a month long series of “unbridled” conversations about the political issues of the day. And, they put on a dazzling, dynamic show; their debate was robust, riveting and revealing.
Posted inDavid Pendered, Latest News, Main Slider
Fate of historic preservation program up for talks Thursday at House panel
A House Transportation subcommittee on Thursday is slated to reconsider a proposal that archaeologists say would cripple historic research and preservation on roadway projects.
Posted inLatest News, Main Slider, Maria Saporta
Atlanta marks International Women’s Day with a focus on global challenges
International Women’s Day came to Atlanta Tuesday.
The World Affairs Council of Atlanta thought it was about time for our city to mark the day, according to Charles Shapiro, its president and CEO.
So the Council brought together a panel of Elizabeth Kiss, president of Agnes Scott College; Michelle Nunn, president and CEO of CARE; and Joyce Adolwa, CARE’s director of education programming.
Posted inColumns, Main Slider, Maynard Eaton
The Bloody Sunday Blues
Bloody Sunday is surreal. It was an uncanny experience even for this seasoned journalist to encounter civil rights icon, Atlanta Congressman John Lewis, holding court and counseling youngsters at the apex of the Edmund Pettis Bridge on Sunday March 6th about the significance and substance of this memorable day in Black history.
Posted inColumns, Main Slider, Maria's Metro
Robert Putnam and Atlanta leaders seek to bridge ‘opportunity gap’
Atlanta prides itself as being the birthplace of the civil rights movement and a place where people of different races can succeed.
But it’s hard to reconcile that truth with the harsh reality that Atlanta in the 21st Century has had the largest, most rapidly growing gap between rich and poor of any major American city.
Posted inLatest News, Main Slider, Maria Saporta
The Atlanta Inquirer’s John Smith Sr. honored by the Atlanta City Council
The Atlanta City Council honored one of Atlanta’s longest serving news professionals – John B. Smith Sr., publisher and CEO of The Atlanta Inquirer.
Posted inTom Baxter
Battle over Obamacare one that draws both parties
For a glimpse of what the fall general election campaign might really look like, neither of last week’s primary debates may have been as revealing as President Obama’s trip to Milwaukee.
Posted inColumns, David Pendered, Main Slider
North Carolina building seaports, bridges to spur economy along remote coast
WILMINGTON, N.C. – North Carolina is expanding its seaports and bridges in a comprehensive effort to promote economic development in shipping and tourism along its remote coastal communities.
Posted inDavid Pendered, Latest News, Main Slider
Georgia’s new road funding could obliterate historic sites
A consequence of the transportation funding bill approved in 2015 by the General Assembly has prompted archaeologists to present their opposition Monday at the Capitol to a measure they say would cripple historic research and preservation.
Posted inDavid Pendered, Latest News, Main Slider
Advocates call for passage of civil rights law after defeat of proposed religious liberty law
Human rights advocates on Wednesday called upon Georgia lawmakers to pass civil rights legislation, shortly after they said they delivered to Gov. Nathan Deal 75,000 emails urging lawmakers to vote against the pending religious liberty bill.
Posted inDavid Pendered, Latest News, Main Slider
Palmetto Pipeline loses ground in Fulton County Superior Court, state House
A Fulton County judge on Tuesday upheld GDOTs refusal to allow a pipeline company to condemn land along the Savannah River. The company said it is reviewing its options.
Posted inColumns, Main Slider, Maria's Metro
Roasting and honoring former Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin
Roasts are dangerous. But when Better Georgia representatives asked if I would be willing to roast former Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin, I couldn’t resist.
Posted inTom Baxter
Demographic decline and the smack-down campaign
Last Friday, as the race for the Republican presidential nomination was descending into a ragged brawl here in the United States, Japan announced that its population had fallen by nearly a million people over the past five years, an unprecedented decline in a time of peace. What’s happening here and what’s happening there have much to do with each other, if we stop to think about it.
Posted inColumns, David Pendered, Main Slider
GSU policy brief explores broad economic impact of Georgia’s film tax credits
Georgia’s film tax credit program may be the grand slam Gov. Nathan Deal contends, but a new GSU report reveals caveats such as the average wage paid for film jobs in Georgia was the lowest average wage among the top 10 states.
Posted inLatest News, Main Slider, Maria Saporta
Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed: MARTA bill may not be dead
Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed, speaking to a gathering of civic leaders Monday morning, gave a glimmer of hope that the MARTA referendum may not be dead after all.
At a conference about the “opportunity gap,” Reed said that if there were a transportation referendum without MARTA, “just count me out.”
