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Atlanta Council Approves Trust Fund for Turner Field Communities

April 22, 2017 MATTHEW CHARLES CARDINALE 2 comments

(APN) ATLANTA — On Monday, April 17, 2017, the City Council of Atlanta approved in a vote of nine to three, an ordinance by Councilman Michael Julian Bond (Post 1-at-large) to create a Trust Fund to benefit the communities surrounding the former Turner Field, including Summerhill, Mechanicsville, Peoplestown, Pittsburgh, and part of Grant Park. http://atlantacityga.iqm2.com/Citizens/Detail_LegiFile.aspx?MeetingID=1933&ID=11620 Voting in favor […]

Fort, Hall Pledge to Implement Decriminalization, if Passed by Council

April 18, 2017 MATTHEW CHARLES CARDINALE One comment

(APN) ATLANTA — Two candidates for Mayor of Atlanta in this November 2017 Municipal Election–State Sen. Vincent Fort (D-Atlanta) and Councilman Kwanza Hall (District 2)–pledged that as Mayor, they would take steps to implement the decriminalization of cannabis (or “marijuana”) possession, if the Atlanta City Council were to pass the ordinance it is currently considering. An ordinance by Councilman […]

State Sen. Steen Miles, 1946-2017, !Presente!

April 4, 2017 MATTHEW CHARLES CARDINALE Leave a comment

(APN) ATLANTA — Former State Sen. Ollisteen “Steen” Miles (D-Decatur), 70, who ran for U.S. Senate in 2014 and was an award-winning journalist with WXIA Channel 11 television news, passed away on Wednesday, March 29, 2017. Sen. Miles served in the Georgia State Senate from 2005 to 2007. “I think she got in and she had been a […]

Woman Fighting Eminent Domain Case to Run for City Council

March 7, 2017 MATTHEW CHARLES CARDINALE 3 comments

(APN) ATLANTA — Tanya Washington, 46, is running for Atlanta City Council District 1, after years of fighting with the City of Atlanta to keep her home in Peoplestown, Atlanta Progressive News has learned. As previously reported by APN, the City of Atlanta has been trying to take a residential block of homes in Atlanta’s Peoplestown neighborhood to create […]

Councilman Bond Seeks Trust Fund for Turner Field Communities, as Smith Holds Meeting

February 23, 2017 MATTHEW CHARLES CARDINALE One comment

(APN) ATLANTA — Atlanta City Councilman Michael Julian Bond (Post 1-at-large) has introduced an ordinance at the Monday, February 20, 2017 Full Council Meeting, directing the Chief Financial Officer of the City of Atlanta to establish a Trust Fund to benefit the neighborhoods surrounding the Turner Field redevelopment. The ordinance was referred to Finance/Executive Committee, where it will be […]

Atlanta Council Debates Cannabis Decriminalization; Work Session Scheduled for Next Week (UPDATE 1)

February 14, 2017 MATTHEW CHARLES CARDINALE One comment

(APN) ATLANTA — The Tuesday, February 14, 2017 Meeting of the Public Safety/Legal Administration Committee was one of the wildest Committee Meetings of the Atlanta City Council in recent memory, as Committee Members discussed a proposed amendment by Ivory Young (District 3) to decriminalize cannabis (“marijuana”) in the City of Atlanta. The Committee decided not to vote on Young’s […]

Atlanta Council Limits Public Comments, Often Lacks Quorum to Hear Comments

February 12, 2017 MATTHEW CHARLES CARDINALE 3 comments

(APN) ATLANTA — Local democracy has apparently become a nuisance to the Atlanta City Council, except to the extent that its members want citizens to vote for them in November. Six of seven of the Committees of the Atlanta City Council now have severely restrictive public comment policies, limiting the amount of time any one citizen can address the […]

Moore, Martin Express Support for CBA for Turner Field

February 7, 2017 MATTHEW CHARLES CARDINALE One comment

(APN) ATLANTA — At the Monday, February 06, 2017 Full Council Meeting of the City Council of Atlanta, Councilmembers Felicia Moore (District 9) and CT Martin (District 10) expressed their support for a Community Benefits Agreement (CBA) for the Turner Field redevelopment. Moore and Martin–who are both running for Council President in this year’s municipal elections–made comments following over […]

Turner Field Sale Documents Show Scarce Community Benefits

January 27, 2017 MATTHEW CHARLES CARDINALE One comment

(APN) ATLANTA — Residents, activists, and students spent two years advocating for a Community Benefits Agreement for the Turner Field redevelopment. Not only was a CBA excluded from sale documents, but few shallow benefits were agreed to in the sale, Atlanta Progressive News has learned upon making an open records request. http://bit.ly/2kBO7D4 Students, residents, and activists blasted the […]

APN Releases Atlanta Council Scorecard for 2016

December 26, 2016 MATTHEW CHARLES CARDINALE 2 comments

(APN) ATLANTA — As 2016 winds down and the City of Atlanta’s 2017 Municipal Election cycle picks up, Atlanta Progressive News is releasing its Atlanta City Councilmember Scorecard. APN’s Scorecard is one of the most comprehensive, substantive, and transparent scorecards of the Atlanta City Council. The Scorecard is available as a public Google Spreadsheet: http://bit.ly/2ixKV6s APN has […]

APN Celebrates 11 Years of Publication; Editor Returning to Atlanta

November 23, 2016 MATTHEW CHARLES CARDINALE One comment

(APN) ATLANTA — Upon the eleven year anniversary of Atlanta Progressive News, Matthew Charles Cardinale released the following statement: #### Eleven years ago, on November 23, 2005, I launched the Atlanta Progressive News – a progressive news organization in Atlanta, from a FEMA-funded hotel room on Executive Park Drive, in what is now Brookhaven, Georgia. I had just […]

EDITORIAL: 30 Percent AMI on the Beltline; Now or Never

October 30, 2016 MATTHEW CHARLES CARDINALE 2 comments

(APN) ATLANTA — Atlanta City Council members need to stop declaring their desire for “mixed-income communities,” unless they are willing to at some point enact public policies that actually support each part of the mix. The time is now to enact a public policy to produce units to benefit Atlanta’s working households making 15,000 dollars and less per year, […]

Fialkow, Hodges Claim Anti-Semitism in Homeless Task Force Lawsuit

October 27, 2016 MATTHEW CHARLES CARDINALE Leave a comment

With research by Gloria Tatum (APN) ATLANTA — Developer Emmanuel “Manny” Fialkow, who, documents show, conspired to sabotage the Metro Atlanta Task Force for the Homeless so he could obtain its building–and his attorney Ken Hodges, former Democratic nominee for Attorney General–have accused the Metro Atlanta Task Force for the Homeless and its attorneys of anti-semitism, in a latest […]

Rev. Benford Stellmacher, 1953-2016, !Presente!

October 22, 2016 MATTHEW CHARLES CARDINALE Leave a comment

(APN) ATLANTA – Rev. Benford Dwight Stellmacher, 63, a strong advocate for, and generous servant of, low-income and homeless people; someone who carried on the legacy of the Civil Rights Movement; and a long-standing producer of the “Issues and Answers” show Atlanta’s People TV public access television, has passed away. An extraordinary man and gentle giant, he was an […]

Louisiana’s Statewide School Takeover Was Post-Katrina Disaster

October 11, 2016 MATTHEW CHARLES CARDINALE 2 comments

(APN) NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana — After Hurricane Katrina, the State of Louisiana advanced a statewide takeover of the Orleans Parish School District that has been a catastrophe of public policy, harming students, parents, voters, and communities. Education advocates in New Orleans like Karran Harper Royal are distraught to learn that Georgia voters are facing a statewide referendum this November […]

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