Atlanta Progressive News

(APN) ATLANTA — Xanna Don’t, the new Editor of the Atlanta Free Press, Atlanta’s controversial new GLBT publication, wrote a three page editorial responding to last week’s scandal concerning AFP. The editorial appeared in the third and latest print issue of the magazine. Previously, Atlanta Progressive News reported that Zack Hudson, the then-Editor of AFP, had been terminated from Southern […]

(APN) ATLANTA — A former legislative editor for the Georgia House of Representatives is suing her former employers after she was fired for announcing her intent to transition from a man to a woman. Glenn Morrison, a former naval lieutenant, was born with Gender Identification Disorder, a medical condition in which one’s physical sex does not match the perceived sex […]

This article originally appeared on the Inter-Press Service at http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=49847. ATLANTA, Georgia, Dec 29 (IPS) – National progressive groups are gearing up for the 2010 Congressional elections by targeting centrist Democrats in the U.S. Congress and supporting their more left-leaning opponents. The two major parties, the Democrats and Republicans, portray themselves as starkly different. However, by international standards, the two […]

(APN) ATLANTA — With Atlanta’s 2009 municipal elections now over and a new Mayor set to take office in January 2010, Atlanta’s police accountability and public safety advocacy groups are turning their attention to the search for a new chief for the Atlanta Police Department (APD). Mayor-elect Kasim Reed named George Turner, a long-time Atlanta Police Department veteran, the Interim […]

(APN) ATLANTA — The first issue of Atlanta Free Press was distributed throughout Atlanta’s GLBT community on December 10, 2009. AFP is the first GLBT print news publication to emerge after the closure of Southern Voice [and David Magazine] a month ago. As previously reported by Atlanta Progressive News, former Southern Voice editors and staffers have launched an effort to […]

This article originally appeared on the Inter-Press Service at http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=49715. ATLANTA, Georgia, Dec 16 (IPS/TerraViva) – As governments negotiate future greenhouse gas emissions in Copenhagen, a recent report from Environment America has highlighted the problem of the United States’ older coal-fired power plants, which generated nearly three-quarters of U.S. carbon dioxide emissions from power plants in 2007. Altogether, U.S. power […]

This article originally appeared on the Inter-Press Service at http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=49805. ATLANTA, Georgia, Dec 23 (IPS) – The number of housing units affordable to extremely low-income (ELI) families in the U.S. has declined over the last year, even as the number of families needing those units has increased, according to a new report by the National Low-Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC). NLIHC […]

This article contains additional reporting by Matthew Cardinale (APN) ATLANTA — A Fulton County Superior Court judge on Tuesday, December 15, 2009, dismissed a class action lawsuit brought on behalf of uninsured dialysis patients, some of whom are undocumented, against the Grady Health System. With little comment, Judge Ural Glanville dismissed the case after hearing an hour of arguments from […]

(APN) ATLANTA — After being caught lying to Atlanta Progressive News, Zack Hudson has officially resigned as Editor of Atlanta Free Press. Xanna Don’t has been named Interim Editor; previously she had served as Contributing Editor and had told APN that she would not work with Hudson after learning about his dishonesty. Meanwhile, Co-owner Chip Kelley has assumed responsibility for […]

(APN) ATLANTA — One of the co-owners of Atlanta Free Press, Matt Neumann, admitted on the blog comments section of Project Q Atlanta that Zack Hudson, Editor of AFP, lied to Atlanta Progressive News in a previous article. Previously, APN reported that Hudson had been terminated from Southern Voice magazine for allegedly fabricating quotes and sources in two articles. When […]