Pan Handling and vagrancy are becoming more burdensome through out Metro Atlanta. They’re not just downtown anymore, but in Midtown, Decatur, Marietta, and other metro areas as well.
Recent studies have shown that laws designed to prevent pan handling and vagrancy are ineffective and not being enforced. Further, no [...]
Walk around Castleberry Hill these days and you can see it’s a neighborhood in transition. Galleries are closing and Nightclubs are moving in.
The influx in restaurants is not a bad thing, but the squeeze on the galleries is. A thriving art scene helps the city and downtown in particular. [...]
Whether our legislature is effective or not in dealing with transportation problems, the planning is coming. You can help shape it.
The Transit Planning Board, which is made up of ARC, GDOT, GRTA, and MARTA representatives has a plan for transport throughout the region. They are taking general public input! [...]
Apparently, the Georgia Legislature thinks that the best thing you can do for Georgia’s citizens is not to fund better transport, but let people add an arsenal to the transit system.
Both houses have passed legislation that legalizes the carrying of concealed weapons on trains. The only caveat is that [...]
The City of Atlanta wants to hear from you!
They are conducting a survey about your transportation uses and You should participate!
The survey will take 10 to 15 minutes. It will ask about how you get from place to place and what your priorities are as the city goes forward. [...]
Jim Martin is Job. He sacrifices, he gives, and he does so with a faithful smile on his face knowing the pain and suffering he will endure. After running for Lt. Governor with a Candidate whose loss was assured, he has volunteered to run for Senate.
God love [...]
Rarely do the tornadoes actually come through a central city. Now that they have, the effects could be scary. We may be abandoned.
Amazingly, the death toll from the entire storm system seems to be two. However, the property damage is estimated to be hundreds of millions of dollars.
A significant [...]
All around North Georgia on March 08, young people were having snowball fights, but not in Atlanta. If you looked at the weather channel radar loop, you saw that the snow moved toward Atlanta, but the hotter air let the moisture remain in the air and so though it [...]
Several Georgia State Students have produced a great experiment: What would happen if you had a group of people who Actually Drove 55 miles an hour on I-285.
Their experiment yielded a great video! What’s telling is not the picture of of the cars spread across I-285 all going 55, [...]
Georgia and Tennessee are fighting over water and land. This is nothing new.
Technically, Georgia’s case is solid. The Tennessee line, as currently marked, is about a mile south of where it’s supposed to be.
No state, however, wants to give up its sovereignty over any land any time, ever and [...]
Dear Licensed Drivers of Georgia:
The law requires you to yield to emergency vehicles. Really, I’m not kidding. It says so in the official Code of Georgia, Annotated.
This means you, even if you decide that talking on your cell phone is too important or that you [...]
Is there anyone who is not tired of the homeless and others begging money downtown? It’s impacting tourist visits, willingness to live downtown, and the ability to improve the quality of life. Moreover, it’s illegal.
Perhaps, however, there is a solution. We all know we should not give money directly [...]
Dear Congressman Lewis,
As Obama and Clinton move through the delegate process, it’s clear you are under tremendous pressure to switch your Super-delegate vote from Clinton to Obama.
Don’t do it. In fact, leave it completely open. Being an unaffiliated super-delegate has plenty of advantages for you, the district, and [...]
You would think that Real Estate developers would be a positive force in improving Atlanta architecture, but it just isn’t so.
Now, Ben Carter Properties wants to tear down the Buckhead Library and put up another condo tower. The problem is that [...]
There is good news and bad news. The good news is that the State clearly understands the importance of Grady hospital and is committed to moving it toward a new management structure.
The bad news is that they seem intent on forcing Fulton and Dekalb county to continue to pay for [...]
If you’re the Atlanta Falcons, your quarterbacks have not had a good season. This week however, Joey Harrington won a game!
Not only did he win, but NPR carried it! Harrington was this week’s celebrity contestant on ‘Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me‘. In the game, he had [...]
So, the Dogwood Festival cannot be in Piedmont Park due to the drought. You’d think they’d go to Centennial Park, right? Nope. They’re going to Lenox Square.
Is there anything more Atlantan than having a festival named for a tree in a shopping mall that was paved over them? Somewhere [...]
We all need medical care sometimes. However, if you don’t have insurance, it can be expensive.
Well take heart, because there are affordable options out there. Here are some of them. At 1340 Boulevard is the Grant Park clinic. Office visits are $30. At 1350 Boulevard is the Family Health Enterprise. [...]
Ever wonder why downtown isn’t teaming with clubs despite the hotel presence? Ever wonder why no club survives very long in town?
The lack of places to play have been a big discussion among Jazz musicians in the Atlanta Jazz Forum and now a theory has been proposed.
Pick which one of the following statements is true:
Want something odd? If you’re African American and you want to graduate from college in Georgia, you should go to Emory. According to recently published research, 83% of African Americans who enter Emory graduate. 66% of African Americans who enter UGA graduate. No information was available for Agnes [...]
The circus is back intown, and by the circus of course, we mean the Georgia General Assembly.
This year is all about the prevent defense. The focus has to be on stopping stupid ideas from getting through. As you may have heard, several of these are “Let’s completely revamp our [...]
Here’s what everyone is failing to mention in the battle between Senators Obama and Clinton.
“IT’S THE DOWN BALLOT RACES STUPID!”
Think about it. If Senator Clinton wins, people will zealously come out of the woodwork to vote against her and they’ll vote a straight Republican ticket [...]
Believe it or not, we’re already at the top of another election cycle. Today is the last business day you can register to vote for the Presidential Primaries that will occur on Super Duper Tuesday, February 5th.
Iowa saw record turnout and you can be part of a record [...]
Georgia likes to brag about what an excellent place to do business it is. Part of that is seeing what price it takes for the Legislature to be sympathetic to business.
It turns out were in the middle of the pack, but nearly every state costs less than you’d think. [...]
At roughly 9:15 P.M., January 1, 2008, it began to snow near Little Five Points. There wasn’t a lot of snow, and no accumulation, but it did snow. That in itself is a welcome site. The swirling snow against the neon lights of the shops were very pretty indeed.
What is [...]
Remember Mayor Franklin? Whatever happened to her? Is she hibernating? She’s Gone!
Sistah Mayah used to be everywhere! Openings, closings, luncheons, announcements, Beltlines, projects, schools, houses… heck if you asked nicely she’d meet you at a donut shop. Now she’s gone. She’s ‘Underground Shirley’, and like Underground she’s giving [...]
People often say that HD Radio means nothing or that there isn’t anything new and different on those stations. In fact, it’s not true.
HD Radio is digitally broadcast radio which requires a decoder unit, but does not have a monthly subscription fee. In
Atlanta, several stations, [...]
In New York, the MTA is radically shaking up how they manage the various train lines that run through the city.
Each Train line will now have its own manager, who is personally accountable for the on time performance, security, and cleanliness of their line. Their names will be public [...]
Reports show that less than 10% of you voted. In so doing, you let the zealots choose for you. They had the decency to show up.
In the Lithonia mayor’s race , 1 vote seperates first and second. In Mountain Park, the difference between getting in the run-off and being out [...]
If you’ve ever thought ‘my vote doesn’t count’, then Vote Tuesday! Several Georgia cities are holding municipal elections Tuesday and turnout is notoriously low.
If you want your vote to count, show up and you’ll be making a big difference.
In Gwinnett & Dekalb County cities, the elections turn on what [...]
DragonCon Junior, AKA Anime Weekend Atlanta, has hit and it has twice the orientation acceptance yet an average age of attendance of half of DragonCon.
If you live in Atlanta, you know the wildest party of the year if DragonCon. In fact, it’s the wildest party Atlanta has seen since [...]
Recently, Gilda’s Club held an event at 2 Peachtree Street. The results tell a lot of about Atlantans. It turns out that White native Atlantans had no idea where this was.
This building used to be known as the First Atlanta Tower and the Woodruff Foundation paid to refurbish [...]
MARTA did not win customers this weekend. On one of the busiest weekends of the year, MARTA decided to single track. Further, they ran a number of trains on the opposite site of where they usually arrive confusing tons of out of towners.
Here’s what happened this weekend:
WABE’s HD Radio News Stream is off the air. There is nothing in their website about this problem and it’s been off for several weeks. This is a troubling development. Ultimately, in a battle between news coverage and classical music, the news is going to win, but having an [...]
The buzz of Atlanta Radio is whether or not the prosecution and reporting of the Michael Vick has been adversely effected by race. The NAACP has certainly been involved in trying to defend Vick.
People have been arguing that athletes such as Dany Heatley received far less harsh sentences [...]
It looked as though a constructive re-formulation of Grady might be in the works with a new governance system, a new board, and new money. Meetings were happening and even the Speaker of the House was in attendance. But those already in power at Grady saw their livelihoods in [...]
The opening of the new Hudson Grille at Brookhaven Station provides an opportunity to reflect on tavern culture here in Atlanta. We have an advantage over many cities in that we have mid price range up scale taverns that are based here. Just as Charlotte has a great [...]
What were they thinking? WABE, which had some momentum has just lost some with the release of their new schedule. Yes adding “The World” was a great thing, but lessening the number of days that ‘Fresh Air’ was carried is not the way. Moving ‘The Infinite Mind” [...]
That Grady Hospital is in trouble is nothing new, but after talking to physicians that work there, there is new information to add to the mix.
Just in case, you’re unaware, Grady Hospital is in big trouble. It is again on the verge of closing. One physician who asked to [...]
Clearly College Park’s community wants to keep growing. With the lull in the development market, College Park is growing more slowly than 3 or 4 years ago and downtown has some vacant spaces.
The City, however, has made some smart choices. They’re using the vacant store fronts as Art [...]
Alabama Governor Bob Riley must be really thirsty, because he wants 18 billion gallons of water from us. He has threatened to sue the Army Corps of Engineers to get them to essentially drain Lake Acworth, Lake Allatoona, and Carter’s Lake.
Riley wants the water for Alabama and believes that [...]
Sembler is talking a good game about their mammoth Briarcliff North Druid Hills Development, but talk is cheap… the question is whether the housing will be as well. They’ve promised 1000 units of lower income housing (BTW, they’ve created a new vocabulary term for these… they’re now ‘workforce’ units). [...]
Places of quiet contemplation in the heart of a city are vital and Atlanta is losing them. Yes, there are parks, coffee houses, stores, malls, sidewalks, but fewer and fewer non-commercial spaces to simply quietly contemplate. The saddest example of this is that The Temple of All Faiths at the [...]
Everyone should go see the current exhibit at MODA. The basic message is that Global Warming is coming for us because of the way we live. If we do nothing, we’re doomed… or at least anyone with current ocean front property is doomed.
It’s also about design innovations [...]
If there is one case that the Atlanta Police and Fulton County District Attorney’s Office has to handle it’s the case of the Cabbage Town Kidnappers.
If you’re not familiar with this, at 2:30 AM on July first, two attorneys from prominent legal organizations were kidnapped outside of a nightclub. [...]
The Immortal Game lives in Atlanta! Chess is among the longest lasting, most powerful contests humanity has created, and Atlanta has a chess culture. It’s not talked about or covered in the paper, but people here talk about chess, think about chess, and support institutions that let it thrive.  [...]
