(APN) ATLANTA — Lost-n-Found Youth, Inc. is an Atlanta-based nonprofit corporation whose mission is to take homeless youths who are bisexual, homosexual, or transgender off the streets and transition them into more permanent housing arrangements. Lost-n-Found (LnF) was founded by activists Rick Westbrook of the Atlanta Chapter of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, Art Izzard of the Queer Justice […]
Read more(APN) ATLANTA — Candidates for Mayor and City Council of Atlanta have filed their second quarter disclosure reports. The reports show that the ethically-challenged Councilman Lamar Willis (Post 3-at-large) faces a serious competition from Andre Dickens, who has raised over 60,000 dollars to run against Willis; and that Councilwoman Natalyn Archibong (District 5) is in a strong position to […]
Read more(APN) ATLANTA — Attorney David Andrew Cox has filed his notice of intent to challenge Atlanta City Councilman Aaron Watson (Post 2-at-large) in this November’s Municipal Elections. Cox is an attorney who runs his own practice, the Law Office of David A. Cox, which focuses on pro-consumer litigation. He also works with a law firm called the Peakor Assocation. […]
Read more(APN) ATLANTA — Over the last two weeks, the number of candidates challenging incumbent Atlanta Public Schools Board of Education (BOE) Chairman Reuben McDaniel (At-Large Seat 8) has gone from zero to three. Parent activist and attorney, Cynthia Briscoe Brown; and attorney Tom Tidwell have announced their candidacies already via press release. Former APS BOE Member Mark Riley […]
Read more(APN) ATLANTA — Leslie Grant, an involved APS parent and activist, is challenging incumbent Brenda Muhammad for the Atlanta Public Schools Board of Education District 1 seat. Muhammad, who is the longest-serving Board Member seeking reelection, was part of the so-called Gang of Five that ousted LaChandra Butler Burks as Chair in 2010, which led to the school system’s […]
Read more(APN) ATLANTA — Atlanta Public Schools Board of Education Member LaChandra Butler-Burks (District 5) is not running for reelection, Atlanta Progressive News has learned. “I am not going to run again,” she told APN in an interview. APN broke the news last year that neither Cecily Harsch-Kinnane, Emmett Johnson, nor Yolanda Johnson would be running for reelection. […]
Read more(APN) ATLANTA — HB 123, the Parent and Teacher Empowerment Act, also known as the Parent Trigger Act, is the latest effort by some, mostly Republican, legislators, to promote charter schools in Georgia and continue to undermine the public education system and public schools. The Act was introduced on January 28, 2013 by State Reps. Edward Lindsey (R-Atlanta), Brooks Coleman […]
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