Mayor Dickens next plan for mass transit on the Beltline

No good choices in this race. How can we elect someone who quit a year into their term? Comm Arrington is a hothead. chair Pitts is ancient and votes with the Republicans on the board most times.

Campaigning in a Range Rover. The Atlanta Way??

Glad he fought this. The cops ain’t gonna be happy so keep a sharp eye out

Right! Getting Raj Chetty in town is not cheap...

Atlanta City Council: Stop the TAD! Right now, Mayor Andre Dickens and his administration are rushing major legislation that will impact Atlanta’s future 30 years out and beyond. On Dec. 1 – the last Council Meeting of the year – it’s v...

I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: Atlanta City Council: Stop the TAD!. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/drop...

$473k total according to the City's Open Checkbook system

She went straight from the Mayor's admin to Lexicon. This contract is a nice perk.

Friendly reminder that the Atlanta City Council DOES have subpoena power and can hold hearings, not just work sessions, though they never have used that power in my 20 years in the city. Now is the time! @kelseabondatl.bsky.social

At least 2 Marta reach vehicles exist

Ex-judge found not guilty in brawl outside Buckhead club — The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Christina Peterson, who represented herself during the trial, had been arrested in June 2024 and was accused of willful obstruction of law enforcement officers, a misdemeanor.

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Former judge found not guilty in brawl outside Buckhead club - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Atlanta taxpayers will eventually foot the bill for APD on this one

Metro Atlanta sees over 144,000 eviction filings in year-long data collection Metro Atlanta has seen over 100,000 eviction filings in the past 12 months, according to new data released by The Eviction Lab, a Princeton University-based research team that tracks evictions in seve...

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Another way Atlanta leadership fails black residents

But House Bill 1240, introduced by Alpharetta Republican State Rep. Chuck Martin, would prohibit renewal of current TADs if they collectively reach 10% of the city’s total tax base. Atlanta’s TADs are currently at 17.6% of the tax base, according to a city oversight commission tasked with hashing out the plan. State law already prevented local governments from creating new TADs above the 10% threshold. But this bill adds language to the law that would prevent renewals above that percentage. “If there’s going to be a new set of bonds issued, a new redevelopment plan — it’s a new TAD, and that’s the way the law is today,” Martin said during the bill’s first committee hearing on Tuesday.

I agree with a republican legislator from Georgia about once every 100 years, but this guy is right. The 10% of citywide revenue cap for TIFs/TADs *should* apply to "extensions" of TADs. City of Atlanta's TADs are already >17% of the tax base. Atlanta Mayor's proposed TIF/TAD 30-year...1/2

Conservative Georgia town pushes back against ICE detention center: ‘We are Americans after all’ Social Circle, a mostly Maga town, builds strange bedfellow coalition against plans to convert warehouse

Went to Social Circle, Ga. to report on the strange bedfellow coalition forming against what cd. be one of largest ICE det'n centers in US:

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@dnbrgr.bsky.social @neonflag.bsky.social @lexmcmenamin.com @austinkocher.com

Would love for ppl
To show up and see a very confused Council President Overstreet

How much would the city save if the council stopped approving renaming streets, parks, etc?? They act like it’s free but it all costs.

I’m sick

Thanks @atlpresscollective.com but how is this acceptable and do we really believe it? It’d bet à lack of coordination with the City Council President and city staff in relation to a holiday for many.

The stuff nightmares are made of…

Grant Park Gateway: Community Vision Survey The Grant Park Gateway is a unique public asset with immense potential. We want to hear from you, the neighbors and visitors who live near and enjoy the park, about how the building and the green roof...

Take and share this survey for the Grant Park gateway building. Apparently it’s back to the drawing board once again: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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The first Neighborhood Reinvestment Initiative Commission is on Vimeo. It starts after the meeting has already started. It's about 35 mins long.

Buy the church

Officer Who Killed Linton Blackwell Was Under Investigation - Capital B News - Atlanta Separately, a witness who said he saw officer Gerald Walker fatally shoot his friend was killed in DeKalb County this month.

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So Marta is closing the bus stops closest to Zoo Atlanta on Cherokee Ave and is also closing the stops on Georgia Ave in growing Summerhill. Make it make sense.

So helpful… #notifyatl

Particularly crazy that Amazon was in this property, left, and now gets millions to come back

Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio) YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free

He’s a politician. He votes against that and he 100% loses re-election to a nut job (or moderate) Republican. Speaking as a native Georgian