Mayor Andre Dickens wants to spend the next year giving Atlanta's young people better access to jobs, activities and early childhood education.Driving the news: The mayor doubled down on his Year of the Youth initiative and announced additional...
Members of a task force created to offer community guidance over Atlanta's public safety training center say the $90 million project needs more transparency.Driving the news: City and DeKalb County officials are pressing forward with plans to build...
A school voucher bill failed in the Georgia state House Wednesday — as more than a dozen rural Georgia Republicans broke with their party and Gov. Brian Kemp's endorsement to defeat it.Driving the news: S.B. 233 failed in...
Apparently, "CBS Now" is a television news program with a similar proposal to the National Desk, with the difference of inclusion ...
On its final day of the 2023 legislative session, the Georgia General Assembly avoided passing much of its most controversial remaining legislation. Driving the news: In a shocking failure, more than a dozen Republicans defeated a...
Commercial trucks hauling logs and crops can carry heavier loads under new legislation approved on Sine Die. Driving the news: In the final moments of the 2023 legislative session, the Georgia General Assembly narrowly OK-ed a bill allowing...
A new exhibit from Emory University researchers and Atlanta creatives explores how the systems framing our world affect our neighborhoods, economy and even our concepts of ourselves.What's happening: On Saturday, Science Gallery Atlanta opens the doors to JUSTICE,...
The sudden flood of state-level efforts to restrict transgender rights is being fueled by many of the Christian and conservative groups that led the charge against Roe. v. Wade, Axios' Russell Contreras reports on Friday's Transgender Day of...
Seventy-five years ago this month, Atlanta hired its first Black police officers.Driving the news: In 1948, eight officers were hired to staff a new precinct at a "colored" YMCA downtown. But they faced immense challenges.First of all, as...
Another metro Atlanta elections director is stepping down following a series of elections that put a national spotlight on a once little-talked-about job.Driving the news: Janine Eveler, who has served as elections director for Cobb County for the...
