HOW CAN WE INCREASE AFFORDABLE HOUSING IN ATLANTA? I’ve been an advocate for affordable housing and involved in it for years. In 2006, when I saw the City released its housing study, I looked at the rise in housing prices. The average price was $233,000. I had them broken down by zip code. I looked, there’s fraud in this. As […]
Read moreThe U.S. Department of Energy announced Thursday it is set to release $3.2 billion in energy efficiency and conservation projects in U.S. cities, counties, states, territories, and Native American tribes. Of that total, Georgia is set to receive just over $67 million for state, county, and city energy efficiency efforts. This is on top of the $207 million Georgia will receive for weatherization […]
Read moreThe Georgia Senate passed HB 160 on Wednesday 42-10 and sent it to Gov. Sonny Perdue, who is expected to sign. HB 160 is better known as the “super speeder” legislation that Perdue supported in previous sessions and wanted it to pass this year. Drivers traveling over 85 m.p.h. on a highway or over 75 m.p.h. on a two-lane road […]
Read moreRemember the Atlanta Story? I do. It was a community paper started by the original founder of Creative Loafing in Atlanta, Debbie Eason. APN did a story about The Story when it stopped printing and went online-only. But apparently, now the Story is no more-y. It occurred to me I hadn’t heard anything from or about them in a while, […]
Read moreFrom the AJC (reprinted for informational purposes): The Atlanta Journal-Constitution said Wednesday it will cut its full-time news staff by about 90 people, or nearly 30 percent, to lower costs as it tries to regain profitability amid a severe revenue slump. The company also announced it will eliminate distribution to seven more outlying counties, reducing its circulation area to 20 […]
Read moreAs previously reported on APB, three Georgia Republicans in the US House–Broun, Kingston, and Price–had supported a bill by US Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) to audit the Federal Reserve. US Rep. Deal added himself as a cosponsor on March 23, 2009. This brought the total cosponsors to 44, including some progressive Democrats.
Read moreAPN received an email from Glenn Thomas, who is running for Mayor of Atlanta. We hope to bring you more information about him soon in our ongoing series with Mayoral candidates. So far we’ve interviewed Caesar Mitchell, Kasim Reed, and Mary Norwood, with Norwood’s interview scheduled to run on the website tomorrow (Thursday). Thomas’s website, www.glennthomasforchange.com, so far reveals little […]
Read moreWith additional reporting by Matthew Cardinale. (APN) DECATUR — Students at Emory University are troubled by anti-Palestinian remarks which were written with chalk on the main campus on November 02, 2008, saying they feel intimidated by the messages and that the Administration has failed to take action against the alleged perpetrators. The University has denied twice to Atlanta Progressive News […]
Read moreWow, guess what? Another new online news service by a veteran AJC reporter and editor of investigations, Jim Wallis. He’s going after public corruption stories- awesome! Apparently, he used to write these kinds of stories for the AJC; you know, the research-based stories the AJC doesn’t run no mo’. Behold; seeing is believing: Atlanta Unfiltered. Maybe someone should have told […]
Read moreTomorrow, John Monds, who ran for Public Service Commission in 2008, will announce tomorrow his Libertarian candidacy for Georgia Governor. “During his campaign for Public Service Commission (District 1) in 2008, Monds became the first Libertarian to break one million votes in the United States,” according to a press release obtained by APN. That’s a big deal. Other 2010 candidates- […]
Read moreCouncilwoman and Mayoral candidate Mary Norwood has released her 12 point plan to tackle crime in Atlanta. Here’s what it is: #### Fix today’s crisis! End the furloughs of our police and firefighters. Keep precincts and fire stations open and staffed 24/7. Pay police and firefighters’ salaries from thetaxes Atlanta already collects. Find savings in other departments. To fund our public […]
Read moreUS Sen. Feingold (D-WI) has introduced a bill to abolish the federal death penalty, S. 650. The bill has no-cosponsors. “Feingold’s Federal Death Penalty Abolition Act of 2009 would put an immediate halt to federal executions and forbid the use of the death penalty as a sentence for violations of federal law. The use of the death penalty has been […]
Read moreA recent poll conducted by Insider Advantage shows former Gov. Roy Barnes–who a source tells APN is considering a 2010 run for governor–would be competitive against two out of 3 possible leading Republican candidates. Based on the current poll, Barnes would beat Karen Handel (SOS and former Fulton County Chair) and John Oxendine (Insurance Commissioner), but not Casey Cagle (Lt. […]
Read moreProgressive economists (Krugman, Reich, Baker, Stiglitz) warn that time is running out on the Paulson/Geithner approach of trying to bribe the Lords of Finance who destroyed the economy with hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars to fix it. The standard approach in such situations is nationalization/rationalization/ reorganization — the government temporarily takes over insolvent banks, fires the management, wipes out […]
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