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Georgia PSC Certifies Billions More in Nuclear Costs in Highly Opaque Process

December 23, 2016 GLORIA TATUM 4 comments

(APN) ATLANTA — On Tuesday, December 20, 2016, the Georgia Public Service Commission (PSC) rubber-stamped a controversial stipulation agreement that fails to protect Georgia utility customers and rewards Georgia Power’s bad management. The Commissioners’ unanimous vote, although disappointing, was not surprising, because the current five Republican Commissioners so often serve the wishes of Georgia Power. Some ratepayers advocates have […]

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 […]

APN Special Report from Cuba on Health Care for All

November 21, 2016 GLORIA TATUM One comment

(APN) HAVANA, Cuba — This Atlanta Progressive News reporter recently visited Cuba from October 08 to 15, 2016, along with a team of academics, activists, and reporters organized by The Nation magazine to learn more about Cuba’s public healthcare system, their culture, and so much more. What APN found is riveting: Cuba has achieved universal health care and better […]

MARTA Project List Not Certain in Sales Tax Referendum

November 3, 2016 AUSTIN STEWART 2 comments

(APN) ATLANTA — On the November 08, 2016 General Election ballot, voters in the City of Atlanta are being asked whether to support or to oppose a half-penny sales tax to support MARTA. However, Atlanta Progressive News has learned that, rather than a specific list of projects, the referendum poses a large menu of possibilities for transportation improvements. […]

APN Issues State House, Senate Scorecard for 2014-2016 (UPDATE 1)

October 26, 2016 AUSTIN STEWART Leave a comment

(APN) ATLANTA — As the 2017-2018 General Assembly Legislative Session quickly approaches in Georgia, Atlanta Progressive News is re-issuing our Combined Scorecard for 2014, 2015, and 2016 for legislators in the State House and Senate representing areas wholly or partially in Fulton and/or DeKalb Counties. The Scorecard rates the candidates on the progressiveness of their voting records, based on […]

Why Jill Stein is Not on the Ballot in Georgia

October 16, 2016 BARBARA PAYNE 6 comments

With additional reporting by Matthew Charles Cardinale (APN) ATLANTA — Green Party nominee for President of the U.S. Jill Stein may be polling nationally at four percent, but she is not on the ballot in Georgia even after a federal district court set a new threshold for petition signatures for statewide minor party nominees. http://atlantaprogressivenews.com/2016/03/18/breaking-georgia-ballot-access-law-stricken-for-presidential-candidates/ http://atlantaprogressivenews.com/2016/04/25/georgia-green-constitution-parties-push-forward-on-petitions-for-ballot-access-despite-state-appeal/ […]

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 […]

Cheryl Courtney-Evans, 1952-2016, !Presente!

October 2, 2016 MATTHEW CHARLES CARDINALE Leave a comment

(APN) ATLANTA — Cheryl Courtney-Evans, 61, a pioneering transgender activist in Atlanta, has passed away, Atlanta Progressive News has learned. She was the founder and Executive Director of Transgender Individuals Living Their Truth (TILTT), which hosts its meetings at the Phillip Rush Center. http://www.tiltt.org/ Courtney-Evans advocated for transgender equality issues at the local, state, and national levels. […]

Atlantans March Against Police Killings of Crutcher, Scott, Rogers, Robinson

September 26, 2016 GLORIA TATUM 3 comments

(APN) ATLANTA — On Friday, September 23, 2016, approximately one thousand people gathered at the National Center for Civil and Human Rights at 100 Ivan Allen Boulevard for a rally, march, and sit-in to demand not one more Black body lost to the hands of the police in the United States. The rally was in response to the recent […]

Atlantans Rally in Support of Largest Prison Strike in U.S. History

September 17, 2016 GLORIA TATUM Leave a comment

With editing by Tom Coffin, Special to the Atlanta Progressive News (APN) ATLANTA — The largest coordinated work stoppage and hunger strikes in U.S. history began on Friday, September 09, 2016–the 45th anniversary of the infamous and brutally suppressed prison uprising at Attica State Prison in New York–and is currently still in progress. The prison strike encompasses at […]

Proposed Sabal Gas Pipeline Runs through Aquifer, Wetlands, Sinkhole Territory

September 12, 2016 GLORIA TATUM 4 comments

(APN) ATLANTA — The proposed Sabal Trail–a fracked gas pipeline through Alabama, Georgia, and Florida–would run through hundred of miles of sinkhole-prone land, will cross over one thousand wetlands, and will disturb an aquifer. Some environmental advocates refer to the project as the “Sinkhole Trail Pipeline.”. The project will include approximately 474 miles of a three foot wide, […]

Lawsuit Challenges Gwinnett County’s District Map for Blocking Minority Representation

August 29, 2016 APN NEWS Leave a comment

By Pilar Verdes, Special to the Atlanta Progressive News. (APN) ATLANTA — On August 08, 2016, the Georgia State Conference of the NAACP, the Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials (GALEO), and seven Gwinnett county citizens have filed a federal lawsuit, challenging the district scheme used by the Gwinnett Board of Commissioners and the Gwinnett Board of Education for […]

Georgians Outraged by DEA Decision Not to Reschedule Cannabis

August 19, 2016 GLORIA TATUM Leave a comment

(APN) ATLANTA — On August 11, 2016, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) rejected two petitions to reschedule cannabis (“marijuana”) under the Controlled Substances Act from Schedule 1–the classification for dangerous drugs with no medical value–to a lower classification. https://www.dea.gov/divisions/hq/2016/hq081116.shtml One petition was from Gov. Jay Inslee of Washington, Gov. Gina Raimondo of Rhode Island, and medical cannabis […]

Split PSC Approves New Nuclear Study, Some New Solar, Wind in Georgia (UPDATE 1)

August 2, 2016 GLORIA TATUM One comment

With additional reporting by Matthew Charles Cardinale. (APN) ATLANTA — On Thursday, July 28, 2016, the Georgia Public Service Commission (PSC) approved a revised Georgia Power Company Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) for 2016. The IRP is a twenty year plan that Georgia Power updates every three years. The Plan includes at least an additional 1,200 Megawatts (MW) of […]

Green Party Submits Signatures to Appear on Georgia U.S. Presidential Ballot

July 21, 2016 BARBARA PAYNE Leave a comment

(APN) ATLANTA — On Tuesday, July 12, 2016, the Green Party of Georgia submitted petition signatures to get their Presidential candidate, Jill Stein, on the ballot in Georgia for the November 08, 2016 General Election. “Tuesday morning, the Georgia Green Party filed with the Elections Division for the Georgia Secretary of State’s office a nomination petition consisting of 1,672 […]

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