Atlanta Progressive News

(APN) ATLANTA — Atlanta Progressive News is pleased to announce that we will be hosting our third Official Town Hall Meeting, this time a candidates’ forum for candidates for Fulton County Commission and Fulton County Superior Court Judge. The event will take place at the Spring4th Center–at the corner of Spring and 4th–in Midtown Atlanta, on Tuesday, October 19, 2010, […]

(APN) ATLANTA — With Georgia’s most restrictive ballot access laws in the nation for independent candidates and third parties having gotten a lot of media attention this year, Atlanta Progressive News hosted a Town Hall Meeting on the subject last month. During the first segment of the Town Hall, APN provided an overview of ballot access laws in Georgia. Seeing […]

(APN) ATLANTA — The Community Development and Human Resources Committee of the City Council of Atlanta (CD/HR) unanimously approved legislation on Tuesday, September 28, 2010, which defines community benefits principles for the Atlanta Beltline. The Community Benefits legislation was sponsored by CD/HR Chairwoman Joyce Sheperd (District 12), and was co-sponsored by Carla Smith (District 1), Kwanza Hall (District 2), Ivory […]

This article first appeared on the Inter-Press Service at http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=53014. ATLANTA, Georgia, Sep 30, 2010 (IPS) – A natural gas explosion in San Bruno, California that almost decimated an entire city earlier this month has fuelled concerns about the outdated, aging, and dangerous gas pipelines that underlie many U.S. cities. Television stations across the U.S. broadcast dramatic images of firefighters […]

(APN) ATLANTA — Atlanta Progressive News has completed a Atlanta Council Member Voting Scorecard for 2010, which rates Council Members for three votes and one public disclosure issue during the first year of the 2010-2013 term. In 2009, APN released its first Council Member scorecard, covering four votes between the years of 2003 and 2009. The 2010 scorecard provides a […]

With additional reporting by Xanna Don’t. (APN) ATLANTA — Atlanta’s Citizen Review Board ruled on Thursday, September 09, 2010, that the Atlanta Police Department had committed false imprisonment against 62 bar patrons at the Atlanta Eagle, a gay leather bar in Midtown Atlanta, during a September 2009 raid. On a related note, APN can reveal–based on interviews with two plaintiffs […]

(APN) ATLANTA — Atlanta Beltline, Inc., failed to address public concerns regarding gentrification during their Quarterly Report before the Community Development/Human Resources Committee of the City Council of Atlanta, despite the fact that Brian Leary, CEO of the organization, promised to do so during their last Quarterly Presentation before the same committee. CD/HR is the Council Committee which is supposed […]

(APN) ATLANTA — A Notice of Appeal was filed yesterday, September 14, 2010, in Fulton County Superior Court, regarding the secret vote lawsuit brought by the present writer against the City of Atlanta and several Council Members. The case file will now be sent over to the Georgia Court of Appeals to be placed on the docket there. The lawsuit […]

(APN) ATLANTA — Activists from Georgia Women’s Action for New Directions and other organizations have been lobbying US Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-GA), who sits on the Foreign Relations Committee, to vote yes on the new US-Russia START agreement. On April 08, 2010, the new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) was signed in Prague by the United States and Russia, […]

With additional reporting by Alice Gordon. (APN) ATLANTA — A group of Atlanta neighborhood activists have been engaged in a years-long battle to get the City of Atlanta to seek a permit for the shafts–through which waste water is sent into deep underground tunnels–something they believe is a requirement of the federal Safe Drinking Water Act. The tunnels go long […]

(APN) ATLANTA — In our continuing coverage of the 2010 Statewide and Congressional Elections, we sat down with David Chastain, the Libertarian nominee running for Secretary of State of Georgia. State Rep. Georganna Sinkfield won the Democratic nomination in a Run-off Election with State Sen. Gail Buckner. APN had endorsed Buckner in the Run-off. APN previously interviewed Sinkfield, and the […]

(APN) ATLANTA — An emergency plan appears to be coming together for the former Grady Hospital dialysis patients who were set to lose their care today, Atlanta Progressive News has learned. 38 former Grady Hospital patients are still receiving dialysis from Fresenius under a temporary contract between Grady and the private dialysis provider. Grady had agreed to pay Fresenius to […]

This article first appeared on the Inter-Press Service website at: http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=52661. ATLANTA, Aug 30, 2010 (IPS) – On July 21, 2010, U.S. President Barack Obama signed into law the most sweeping financial industry regulatory reform since the Great Depression of the 1930s. But, experts point out that the bill does not address some of the real problems behind the structural […]

(APN) ATLANTA — Atlanta Progressive News will be holding its second Official Town Hall Meeting on Tuesday, September 21, 2010, from 7-9pm at the Spring4th Center in Atlanta’s Midtown. It is the third Tuesday night in September. This will be the second in a series of monthly town hall meetings called by APN to address critical community issues and empower […]

(APN) ATLANTA — The Atlanta Housing Authority told multiple lies in its response last week to an article that appeared on Atlanta Progressive News, dated August 12, 2010, entitled, “Evicted AHA High-Rise Seniors Die at Alarming Rates.” In addition, the AHA uses taxpayer dollars to disparage APN. The APN article reported that 24 of the seniors at Palmer House had […]