Atlanta Progressive News

(APN) ATLANTA — Two staff attorneys for the City of Atlanta prepared a memo in response to the open meetings compliance inquiry brought by Atlanta Progressive News, according to a copy of the memo obtained by APN. The memo was prepared for Councilwoman Felicia Moore (District 9) and Clerk, Rhonda Dauphin Johnson, on April 23, 2010. Previously, APN challenged the […]

(APN) ATLANTA — On Monday, April 19, 2010, City Councilwoman Felicia Moore (District 9) acknowledged that the Council made a mistake by not including vote details in the Minutes of the Retreat of the City Council which took place at the Georgia Aquarium in February 2010. Atlanta Progressive News has brought an open meetings inquiry before the Council and, on […]

(APN) ATLANTA — Former Atlanta City Councilwoman Mary Norwood, who was only a few hundred votes short of being elected Mayor of Atlanta last year, has launched a campaign to become Chairperson of Fulton County. Norwood will be challenging current Chairman, John Eaves, as an independent, which will require her to obtain at least 22,000 signatures, or the 5% of […]

(APN) ATLANTA — In our continuing coverage of statewide and Congressional elections, we sat down with Dekalb County Commissioner Connie Stokes, who is running for US Congress for Georgia’s fourth district, a seat currently held by US Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA). Johnson won the seat in 2006 in a Democratic Primary Run-off with former US Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-GA). McKinney […]

(APN) ATLANTA — Georgia Attorney General Thurbert Baker has been in the local and national news the last couple weeks for opposing Republican Gov. Sonny Perdue on his attempt to sue the US federal government over the private health insurance mandate in the recent health care expansion bill which finally passed Congress. And a recent Insider Advantage poll published April […]

(APN) ATLANTA — In our continuing coverage of Georgia’s statewide and US Congressional Elections, APN sat down with two candidates seeking the Democratic nomination for State School Superintendent, Beth Farokhi and Brian Westlake. Thus far we have interviewed David Poythress, candidate for Governor, and Angela Moore, candidate for Secretary of State. More interviews with candidates for Governor, Secretary of State, […]

(APN) ATLANTA — In our continuing coverage of the 2010 Statewide and Congressional Elections, we sat down with Angela Moore who is running again for Secretary of State of Georgia. Moore previously ran in 2006 for the Democratic nomination and lost to Gail Buckner. Bucker ultimately lost to Republican Karen Handel. Handel is now running for Governor. Also running for […]

(APN) ATLANTA — There were many aspects of the City of Atlanta and Central Atlanta Progress’s apparent conspiratorial campaign to close the Metro Atlanta Task Force for the Homeless, and media strategy was one of the most important because the City and CAP wanted to shape and manage public opinion regarding the Task Force and the City’s overall efforts to […]