By Kevin Moran, Special to The Atlanta Progressive News (APN) CHATTAHOOCHEE COUNTY, Georgia — Medea Benjamin, founder of CODEPINK, was the keynote speaker at the Georgia Peace & Justice Coalition (GPJC) Drone Task Force Workshop, at this year’s protest against the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC, formerly known as the School of the Americas). The […]
Read more(APN) ATLANTA — Georgia Power boldly goes where everyone else has already been, this week announcing its first purchase of wind energy to be included as part of the energy mix that serves Georgia consumers: 250 megawatts (MW) of wind energy from EDP Renewables North America’s wind farms in southwest Oklahoma. Over 50,000 Georgia homes and businesses can now […]
Read more(APN) ATLANTA — The City of Atlanta has entered into a Consent Order with the Georgia Tech Foundation Real Estate Holding Corporation (GTF) to allow the demolition of the historic Crum & Forster Building in Atlanta’s West Midtown neighborhood, despite the fact that the Board of Zoning Adjustment (BZA)–the sole deciding entity–disapproved of the demolition due to the building’s historic […]
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