My writing on the City of Atlanta has been extensive in the past year. We don’t have as robust of media coverage as in the…
Week before last, I shared that the Dept of City Planning (DCP) was dissolving the Neighborhood Planning Unit (NPU) R. The SWATs are a story…
The City of Atlanta has named its new Commissioner of Planning, after long last, and she happens to be a white woman (h/t to John…
…Retaliation, rubber stamps, and red tape, essentially. The last time I wrote about the Atlanta Planning Advisory Board, I shared that I discovered (by attending…
A few days ago, I wrote a post about an Atlanta city public meeting I watched. In the post that followed, I didn’t want to…
I’m taking a break from my series on the APD and what I learned about it at the Citizens’ Police Academy to offer a note…
911 is a service provided in Georgia that most people agree is a welcome provision of protection by the police. In the past, Atlantans could…
A note on recent news of Chief Bryant’s resignation: I wrote this entire piece weeks ago and then edited a little earlier this week. Yesterday…
Crime…Atlanta…Police…Protests…Cop City. There’s been a robust discussion in the last few years around these words. I personally think much of it is both overblown and…
The Atlanta Planning Advisory Board. It’s such a long title and sounds so innocuous, doesn’t it? *sigh* In some ways it really is. In some…