(APN) ATLANTA — This year’s first annual Hosea Feed the Hungry media brunch announced the official launch of Hosea Helps (HH). Hosea Helps works 365 days a year to help an additional 3,500 people with new programs and expansion of other programs to better serve the community every day. Today a new generation of Williams’s are carrying on […]
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(APN) ATLANTA — Thank you, thank you, thank you! That is what I want to say to our readers and donors, who have made this–Atlanta Progressive News’s tenth year of publication–our best year to date! http://atlantaprogressivenews.com/donate/ In just a few months, in November 2015, we will be celebrating ten years of publication. I still remember all the naysayers, […]
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(APN) ATLANTA — Celebrations were held throughout Metro Atlanta and across the U.S. on June 26, 2015, when the Supreme Court of the U.S. ruled that states cannot ban same-sex marriages. It is now legal in all fifty U.S. states for same-sex couples to marry. The first line in the Obergefell v. Hodges ruling states that the Fourteenth Amendment […]
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With additional reporting by Matthew Charles Cardinale. Photograph courtesy of Georgia Power. (APN) ATLANTA — July 01, 2015, is going to be a big day. The Solar Power Free-Market Financing Act, HB 57, sponsored by State Rep. Mike Dudgeon (R-Johns Creek), will go into effect, thus opening up solar panel options for Georgia residents and businesses. On the […]
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(APN) ATLANTA — Four Atlantans have received invitations to attend the National Convening on Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion (LEAD) program at the White House on July 02, 2015. The program is co-hosted by the Domestic Policy Council, the Ford Foundation and the Laura and John Arnold Foundation. Invited guests from Atlanta include Atlanta Councilman Kwanza Hall (District 2); […]
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(APN) ATLANTA — The national organization Common Cause has filed a whistleblower Internal Revenue Service (IRS) tax fraud claim against the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). They are charging ALEC with falsely claiming to be a tax-exempt non-profit organization, to subsidize its lobbying and model legislation to benefit corporate interests. The first complaint was filed against ALEC in […]
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(APN) ATLANTA — For over one month, Gammon Street, a public road in South Atlanta, has been closed off under questionable legal and political circumstances. The closure appears to have been prompted by the complaints of White residents, who do not care for Carver High School students traversing through their neighborhoods. One woman, Kristi Wood, has led a […]
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(APN) UNION CITY, Georgia — The case involving the 2011 shooting death of unarmed nineteen year-old Ariston Waiters in Union City, Georgia, has been reopened by Fulton County District Attorney, Paul Howard. New evidence has been uncovered; and witnesses who were not interviewed by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) or the Grand Jury are now speaking out, once […]
Read moreClick on full post for links. Brookhaven City Attorney Resigns After Cover Up Exposed Brookhaven Post http://www.brookhavenpost.co/brookhaven-city-attorney-resigns-after-cover-up-exposed/30929/ Waiver Plan Still Requires Legislative OK Georgia Health News http://www.georgiahealthnews.com/2015/05/legislator-ga-waiver-plan-requires-legislative/ State policies on illegal immigrants force APS valedictorian to leave Georgia for college Atlanta Journal Constitution’s Get Schooled blog http://getschooled.blog.ajc.com/2015/05/20/anti-immigrant-policies-force-aps-valedictorian-to-leave-georgia-for-college-how-does-that-help-state/ Earth Has Entered Sixth Mass Extinction Telegraph (UK) http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/11687091/Earth-has-entered-sixth-mass-extinction-warn-scientists.html […]
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(APN) ATLANTA — In a surprising turn of events, the Atlanta City Council voted down Mayor Kasim Reed’s nomination of disgraced former Councilman Lamar Willis (Post 3-at-large) to the Fulton County/City of Atlanta Land Bank Authority. Willis lost his City Council seat to Andre Dickens in 2013 after serving for twelve years, during which time he committed numerous ethics […]
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(APN) ATLANTA — The Georgia Commission on Medical Cannabis–created by the General Assembly as part of a compromise with Gov. Nathan Deal, to explore in-state medical cannabis cultivation–met at the State Capitol on Tuesday, June 16, 2015 to discuss guidelines to access medical cannabis in Georgia. One featured speaker was Brenda Fitzgerald, MD,, Commissioner of the Georgia Department of […]
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With additional reporting by Anna Simonton. (APN) ATLANTA — There has truly been a lot of drama in the State House District 55 Special Election, with early voting having already taken place and the upcoming election on this Tuesday, June 16, 2015. Mailers and robocalls have gone out attacking two of the likely frontrunners, Shelitha Robertson and Marie […]
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(APN) ATLANTA — The Atlanta Progressive News Board of Directors is pleased to announce endorsed candidates, as well as runner-up choices, in the State House District 55 and DeKalb County District 5 Special Election taking place on June 16, 2015. A wide array of candidates in both races–seven in HD 55 and ten in DeKalb, for a total of […]
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(APN) ATLANTA — Disgraced former Atlanta City Councilman Lamar Willis (Post 3-at-large) could soon assume a public leadership position once again. Mayor Kasim Reed recently appointed Willis to serve on the Atlanta Land Bank Authority, which acquires tax-foreclosed properties to turn over to developers or keep for long-term planning. The appointment must be approved by City Council before […]
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(APN) ATLANTA — In Atlanta Progressive News’s coverage of the upcoming Tuesday, June 16, 2015 Special Election for DeKalb County Commission District 5, this article presents the questionnaire responses by two candidates, Harmel Codi and Gina Mangham. Under separate cover, APN has published the responses of George Turner, Gregory Adams, and Jerome Edmondson: http://atlantaprogressivenews.com/2015/06/02/apn-questionnaire-george-turner-dekalb-district-5-special-election/ http://atlantaprogressivenews.com/2015/06/06/dekalb-district-5-questionnaires-adams-edmondson/ Candidates […]
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