A $1 billion stadium and $104 million quarterback won’t buy you victory
The curse of being young is that you think you’ll be young forever, and then one day you wake up and realize you’re not anymore. That’s a bad day, and sort of what I imagine the Falcons are feeling right now. Recall that last year they beat the best team in football (the Seattle Seahawks) to advance to the NFC championship, only to squander a seventeen-point lead against San Francisco, which stopped the Falcons at the 49ers own ten-yard-line with the game on the line.
Tweets of the Day: September 21, 2012—Music Midtown Edition
How people are celebrating this year's two-day music festival:
Ask Atlanta: Will the city ever get high-speed rail?
In 1992, the Federal Railroad Administration first pitched the idea of five high-speed rail corridors around the country, including an initial Southeast route from Washington, D.C., to North Carolina; later in the decade, the FRA added Atlanta and Savannah to its plans. So: On its 30th anniversary, how are plans progressing? Slowly.
Video of the Day: Big Boi mini-documentary trailer
The liquor company Crown Royal has made a short film documenting the rapper at the Grammys and his recording studio. It comes out next week, and I predict it has a better chance of nabbing an Oscar nom than Tyler Perry's take on For Colored Girls.
Cain gets Secret Service protection
National Journal reports Herman Cain became the first 2012 GOP candidate to get Secret Service protection. According to the report, the Cain campaign is concerned about crowd control, not a specific threat. (UPDATE: The Associated Press reports Cain has received threats.)
Power to the parents
In the rose-colored room of a restored antebellum home in Decatur, a place that usually holds the luncheons of Junior League ladies or showers for Southern brides-to-be, DeKalb County parents quietly made history this week. Leaders of parent councils met on Monday and agreed to become a unified force.
Why do private, profitable companies get public funds?
For decades, local development authorities and state economic officials have handed out hundreds of millions of dollars to help build high-rises, subsidize warehouses, and woo out-of-state businesses. Why should private companies and well-financed property developers get a cut of public funds?
Guest Commentary: Cathy Woolard on why T-SPLOST will get Atlanta back on its feet
"Over the last fifty years, metropolitan Atlanta overlooked neglected but valuable urban land in search of easy development in surrounding forests and farmland. More recently, the negative effects of urban sprawl have led to new development in in town Atlanta. But without providing an adequate public transportation system for our growing in population, congestion and pollution will diminish our cherished quality of life.
Gov. Deal’s spokesman not shy about gerrymandering
Everybody knows political parties draw state and Congressional voting districts to favor their side, but seldom do politicians flat-out admit it.
Tweets of the Day: June 8, 2012—Smoltz Edition
As the Braves induct pitcher John Smoltz into their Hall of Fame, Twitter reacts:
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