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What We’re Reading – Friday, October 23, 2015

October 23, 2015 MATTHEW CHARLES Leave a comment

Pls click on full post to access links. Atlanta Underground Development Could Hit $400 Million Atlanta Business Chronicle http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/print-edition/2015/07/03/underground-atlanta-redevelopment-could-hit-400m.html Tip Your Huge Media Market Giant Mostly Media blog https://mostlymedia.wordpress.com/2015/10/23/tip-your-huge-media-market-giant/ Turner Field Neighborhood Survey Turner Field Community Benefits Coalition http://www.turnerfieldcoalition.org/?page_id=1011 DeKalb, Atlanta Council Ponder New Spending Transparency Atlanta Journal-Constitution (subscription) http://www.myajc.com/news/news/local-govt-politics/dekalb-atlanta-council-ponder-new-spending-transpa/nnz6b/ DeKalb Pitches One Cent Sales […]

Excluded Black Lawmakers Hold Own Hearing on Medical Cannabis in Georgia

October 22, 2015 GLORIA TATUM Leave a comment

(APN) ATLANTA — On Tuesday, October 20, 2015, the Georgia Legislative Black Caucus (GLBC) held a Minority Medical Cannabis Commission Hearing to gather information and recommendations from their community. Minorities testified on how consistently the door has been shut to their participation in the legislative process related to medical cannabis in Georgia. Not one Black doctor is on […]

What We’re Reading – Thursday, October 22, 2015

October 22, 2015 MATTHEW CHARLES Leave a comment

Pls click on full post to access links. Analysis: Atlanta’s Low-cost Rentals are Disappearing WABE radio http://news.wabe.org/post/analysis-atlantas-low-cost-rentals-are-disappearing Georgia Lawmakers to Push Medicaid Expansion in General Assembly Ledger-Enquirer newspaper (Columbus, Georgia) http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/news/local/article40808826.html Johnny Isakson Drawn a Libertarian Challenger Political Insider blog, Atlanta Journal-Constitution http://politics.blog.ajc.com/2015/10/07/johnny-isakson-draws-a-libertarian-challenger/ Governor on Casinos in Georgia: Don’t bet on it Atlanta Journal-Constitution (subscription) http://www.myajc.com/news/news/state-regional-govt-politics/governor-on-casinos-in-georgia-dont-bet-on-it/nny28/ […]

Clayton Activist Charged with Illegal Speech, Making Terroristic Threats

October 22, 2015 ANNA SIMONTON 3 comments

(APN) CLAYTON COUNTY, Georgia — In a case that raises serious concerns about citizens’ free speech rights under the federal and state Constitutions, Latausha Nedd, a Black woman from Clayton County, is charged with criminal solicitation and terroristic threats for talking about killing White people in videos she posted online. The charges seem disproportionate, considering that White supremacist Dylann […]

What We’re Reading – Wednesday, October 21, 2015

October 21, 2015 MATTHEW CHARLES Leave a comment

Pls click on full post to access links. One DeKalb Neighborhood Quietly Winning Annexation into Atlanta (Edmund Park) Saporta Report http://saportareport.com/one-dekalb-county-neighborhood-quietly-winning-annexation-into-atlanta/ Decatur Annexation May Hinge on Neighborhoods’ Consent Atlanta Journal-Constitution http://www.ajc.com/news/news/local/decatur-annexation-may-hinge-on-neighborhoods-cons/nn6Xm/ Atlanta Charter School Reports 600,000 Dollars Missing (Latin Academy) Atlanta Journal-Constitution (subscription) www.myajc.com/news/news/local-education/atlanta-charter-school-reports-600000-missing/nn6k2/ Nathan Deal Endorses Plan to Abolish DeKalb CEO Position Political Insider blog, […]

Developer Attacks Queer Community Garden known as the Homostead

October 21, 2015 ANNA SIMONTON 3 comments

(APN) ATLANTA — A small time developer has attempted to destroy a community garden that plays an important role in Atlanta’s radical LGBTQI community. On Saturday, October 17, 2015, Ehsan Razavi, owner of RZI Properties, bulldozed most of the garden at Open Space Church, also known as the Homostead, while police stood by and refused to intervene. “Years […]

Kirkwood’s Champion White Oak Unable to be Saved from Developers (UPDATE 1)

October 20, 2015 GLORIA TATUM 3 comments

(APN) ATLANTA — The three hundred years-old Champion White Oak was the first tree, of forty healthy trees, to be cut down last week at 145 Norwood Avenue in the eclectic Kirkwood community to make room for eleven new homes, on Thursday, October 15, 2015. http://atlantaprogressivenews.com/2015/02/02/dekalbs-oldest-oak-tree-faces-developers-removal-request/ A miracle did not happen in time to save the Champion White […]

Protection against Discrimination Next on Georgia’s LGBTQI Policy Agenda

October 14, 2015 APN NEWS Leave a comment

Campaign supplied photo of Karla Drenner (D), Georgia House, District 86, 2010.

With additional reporting by Matthew Charles Cardinale. (APN) ATLANTA — 2015 was a watershed year for the LGBTQI equality movement in the U.S., with the ruling of the Supreme Court of the U.S. in favor of same-sex marriage as a fundamental right under the U.S. Constitution. But LGBTQI advocates lament that the State of Georgia has a long […]

DeKalb Commissioner Jester Calls for CEO May to Resign

October 13, 2015 APN NEWS 2 comments

(APN) DECATUR — DeKalb County Commissioner Nancy Jester (District 1) has called for the resignation of Interim CEO Lee May, in the wake of the Bowers-Hyde corruption report released at the end of September 2015. http://atlantaprogressivenews.com/2015/10/10/DeKalb-county-report-finds-widespread-corruption-seeks-mays-resignation/ During a press conference today, Tuesday, October 13, 2015, Jester stated there is no other way to regain public confidence. “Corruption […]

Atlanta Workers Testify to “People’s Wage Board,” Modeled on New York

October 10, 2015 APN NEWS One comment

(APN) ATLANTA — An Atlanta People’s Wage Board–styled upon an official recent Wage Board in New York–heard testimony from sixteen low wage workers over the course of two hours on Wednesday, October 07, 2015. In May 2015, Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York ordered the empaneling of a Wage Board to investigate and make recommendations on an increase in […]

Anti-Muslim Haters Fail to Show Up at Advertised Rally in Atlanta

October 10, 2015 GLORIA TATUM One comment

(APN) ATLANTA — An anti-Muslim group had called for a national Global Rally for Humanity on today, Saturday, October 10, 2015, to protest outside twenty or more mosques in various U.S. cities, including Atlanta. However, while the faith community mobilized in Atlanta to hold a prayer vigil in response, no anti-Muslim protesters showed up at the advertised protest. […]

DeKalb County Report Finds Widespread Corruption, Seeks May’s Resignation

October 10, 2015 APN NEWS Leave a comment

(APN) ATLANTA — A scathing report on DeKalb County corruption calls for the resignation of Interim CEO Lee May, recovery of funds, and the immediate suspension of all purchase cards (P-cards). It is hard to pick the most outrageous place to start: tens of thousands of dollars to government employees and their businesses; personal loans made to Interim CEO […]

LaVista Hills Feasibility Study Assumes Prohibited Tax Rate

October 9, 2015 GLORIA TATUM Leave a comment

(APN) DEKALB COUNTY — The battle of yard signs and opinions in the proposed city of LaVista Hills show a divided community with some residents supportive and others opposed. Boundary disputes have plagued the proposed LaVista Hills in the past. Now a new controversy swirls around the University of Georgia’s Carl Vinson Institute (CVI) feasibility study that found […]

Profits Over Trees in Kirkwood, as Ancient Trees to be Cut Down

October 9, 2015 GLORIA TATUM 16 comments

(APN) ATLANTA — An ancient forest of over forty healthy trees, including six white oaks from 150 to 300 years old, are scheduled to be cut down for eleven new homes in the Kirkwood neighborhood. The nutrient-rich old growth topsoil has already been bulldozed up and next the trees will be cut down, barring a miracle. The developer, […]

Victory as Mayor Reed Declares Mattie Jackson Can Stay in her Home

October 8, 2015 ANNA SIMONTON 3 comments

With additional reporting by Matthew Charles Cardinale. Photograph (screenshot) courtesy of Joyce Dorsey. (APN) ATLANTA — Community leader Mattie Jackson, 93, will not be forced out of her home. Mayor Kasim Reed made that promise to Jackson and her supporters in a meeting earlier today, on October 08, 2015. In September 2015, Atlanta Progressive News broke the story […]

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