Study: Atlanta ranks No. 8 for walkable areas
It often seems that every week brings a new report underscoring metro Atlanta’s woeful sprawl and its host of associated ills. Well, here’s a bit of better news. A report to be released today ranks the growth of walkable areas in the country’s 30 largest areas, and here's the stunner: Atlanta comes in eighth place.
Donald Glover, RuPaul, John Lewis among TIME’s 100 Most Influential People of 2017
Three Atlanta icons earned a spot on this year's list, alongside President Donald Trump, Moonlight director Barry Jenkins, Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, and others.
Are sprawl and racism the culprits in Atlanta’s woeful upward-mobility ranking?
Just over a week ago—an eternity in 24/7 media time—the New York Times reported on a Harvard/Berkeley study that examined the geography of upward mobility: in other words, does where you are born determine your chances of getting ahead?
Infographic of the Day: One way the Saints still beat the Falcons
Facebook's color-coded map reveals a crimson hold on Georgia, but a gaudy shade of fool’s gold spewing forth from New Orleans.
Infographic of the Day: Atlanta ranked Third Funniest City in U.S.
According to a recent study conducted by the Humor Research Lab (HuRL) at the University of Colorado, Atlanta, along with Washington D.C., gives birth to the most top comedians per capita among major U.S. cities. That fact helped us reach No. 3 on the on lab’s list of the 50 Funniest Cities in America.
Atlanta: Highest rate of income inequality in the U.S.
You don’t have to be a statistician or policy analyst to understand that there’s a huge gap between Atlanta’s haves and haves-not. Just walk down Edgewood Avenue on any given evening, where you will find one group of people sleeping on the sidewalks of the Downtown Connector underpass and another paying $20 for parking spots in an empty lot near a bar called Church.
How stressed are we?
While Hawaii residents are least likely to say they feel stressed on any given day and West Virginians are most likely to be stressed, Georgians are about right in the middle.
Our Place in the Universe: No. 1 for promiscuity
What's your number? It's probably around twenty-five. That's the average number of sexual partners for a run-of-the-mill Atlantan, according to a recent study by Trojan. This makes us the most promiscuous city in the country (based on a somewhat narrow definition of promiscuity).
Healthiest counties in Georgia
Metro Atlanta counties are some of the healthiest in the state, according to a study released today. Forsyth is No. 1, followed by Fayette, Oconee, Gwinnett, Cherokee, and Cobb.
Atlanta employees just kinda content
Do you wake up each morning so darn happy to go to work? Atlanta is just "meh" on a new survey of overall worker contentment.
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