Tweets of the Day: Kasim Reed, the AJC, and Gay Marriage Edition
Our mayor came out in favor of gay marriage last month. This morning, the folks on the newspaper's PolitiFact team gave Reed a "full flip" rating on their Flip-O-Meter. Twitter responds.
Will voters decide to double down on the Atlanta Streetcar?
Streetcar boosters believe the referendums, if approved, could shift the conversation away from its early troubles. When the first trolley rolled out in December 2014, the project was already more than a year and a half behind schedule, and construction costs had ballooned from an estimated $69 million to more than $98 million, with federal grants covering less than half the price tag.
Even with a recount, Atlanta’s next mayor is almost certainly Keisha Lance Bottoms
Even though Mary Norwood is requesting a recount after an extremely close runoff, Keisha Lance Bottoms is almost certainly Atlanta's next mayor. We take a look back at a race plagued by low energy and too many candidates—and look to what's next.
Meet the Other Mayors: Johnny Crist, Lilburn
Long a champion of Lilburn’s historic Old Town, Johnny Crist took office as the part-time mayor in 2012. A native of York, Pennsylvania, he raised eight children in an antebellum house a few dozen steps from his current office.
Newt complains of smear campaign
Guess who's also stunned by Newt Gingrich's rise to the top of the GOP Presidential polls? Newt himself. He recently spoke to Newsweek about what it describes in the headline as his "stunning" comeback.
Newt in URL hell
The web domain www.NewtGingrich.com has fallen in the e-hands of someone who doesn't like Newt Gingrich.
Loeffler and Warnock trade barbs in echo chamber of Senate runoff debate
On Sunday evening, three of the four Georgia candidates vying for a pair of U.S. Senate seats went toe-to-toe—or, in Jon Ossoff’s case, toe-to-vacant podium—on all things related to Covid-19 response, elections integrity, racial justice, and more
Candidates spar over healthcare, inflation at 6th District Congressional debate, while Lucy McBath skips 7th District debate
The Atlanta Press Club held debates for Georgia's 6th and 7th Congressional Districts on Sunday, where Republican Rich McCormick and Democrat Bob Christian sparred over who could best represent the 6th, and Republican Mark Gonsalves had 15 minutes to himself to discuss his platforms after Democrat Lucy McBath declined to show.
Jim Barksdale, Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate, stumbles into the spotlight
"I can throw out my various ideas. But I think they aren’t very well vetted out at this point, so I’d rather not.”
Five decades of civil rights coverage
Today marks a monumental anniversary: fifty years since the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom and Atlanta native son Martin Luther King Jr.'s iconic "dream" speech. Amid all the discussion of how far we've come and how far we need to go, it's worth reflecting on how King's legacy is reflected in his hometown.
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