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    Contributing Writer

    A twenty-five-year Atlanta resident, Scott Henry has written about state and local politics, news, culture, and history for Creative Loafing, the Marietta Daily Journal, and other publications. A life-long dilettante, he is a quasi-expert in such matters as recorded music, cocktails, haberdashery, graphic arts, cinema, and Eastern European travel.

National spotlight is on Georgia nukes

$14 billion Plant Vogtle expansion will become a model—or blow up in our faces

Posted on 6/12/2013 9:32:00 PM by Scott Henry
If you didn’t think gambling is legal in Georgia, guess again. A multi-billion bet has been made in a little community on the banks of the Savannah River. And—you knew this was coming, right?—it’s been made with your money. Read More

School board races begin heating up

With four of nine APS board members stepping aside, new candidates come forward

Posted on 6/7/2013 5:16:00 PM by Scott Henry
Since municipal elections are typically non-partisan and thus don’t require party primaries, it can take a few months into an election year (like this one) for things to begin to heat up. But Atlantans are already seeing some jockeying for position—and it’s not coming from where one might expect. Read More

Adult emporium owner toys with run against Alex Wan

Inserection founder wants to oust councilman over Cheshire Bridge proposal

Posted on 6/6/2013 9:06:00 PM by Scott Henry
Actions have consequences, and that goes double in the world of politics. (Unless you’re former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, but that’s another story.) Read More

Cheshire Bridge to keep adult business, council votes

Proposal to phase out strip clubs seen as bad precedent for property rights

Posted on 6/3/2013 9:52:00 PM by Scott Henry
With a packed audience of firefighters, strippers, commercial developers and lawyers, today’s Atlanta City Council meeting provided an unusually rich showcase for how downright weird local policy-making can be. Read More

Stadium petition could be undone before it begins

Common Cause is told that the city ordinance they planned to use actually violate state law

Posted on 5/30/2013 9:50:00 PM by Scott Henry
Earlier today, Common Cause Georgia Executive Director William Perry stood on the steps of Atlanta City Hall to announce plans to use a little-known ordinance to compel the city to hold a public referendum that would allow voters to overturn the council’s April approval of a financing deal for the new Falcons stadium. Read More

6/20+ Gogo: Nature Transformed
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6/20+ The Cat in the Hat

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