Tag: Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms
Atlanta’s latest coronavirus updates: Wednesday, March 18
On Tuesday, the mayor called for a $7 million assistance fund, Gwinnett County declared a state of emergency, and Matt Ryan pledged money toward food funds. Here’s your Wednesday morning update.
Atlanta’s latest coronavirus updates: Tuesday, March 17
On Monday, as many kids adjusted to being homeschooled (or just home) for the time being, we saw Georgia’s positive coronavirus cases jump and the mayor impose a new restriction on public gatherings. Here’s your Tuesday morning update.
5 Atlanta events you won’t want to miss: June 26-July 2
Common performs with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Pride Month comes to a close this weekend with a choir performance about Matthew Shepard and Keisha Lance Bottoms reading books with a local drag queen.
Keisha’s no Kasim: Inside Bottoms’s very different City Hall
Her critics worried she would be an extension of Kasim Reed. But after more than a year in office, Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms wants you to know she’s leading the city on her own terms.
With mass resignations and peek into City Hall’s checkbook, Keisha Lance Bottoms aims to start defining her time as mayor
Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms unintentionally launched a media firestorm when she asked more than 25 of her cabinet members to submit their resignations. But regardless of tactics, her message was clear: This won't be a third term of Kasim Reed.
“There’s still an enormous amount of racial distrust in Atlanta.”
Just few weeks into her term, Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms speaks out about the election, her efforts to raise $1 billion for affordable housing, whether she’ll endorse in the governor’s race, and the sexism she encounters as a woman who, besides being a mother of four, is the mayor of Georgia’s largest city.