As the year comes to a close, I’m going to lean further into my reflections while I compare them to the present. My last piece…
This was the third and final scheduled town hall for Mayor Dickens. The location change was so abrupt that the pre-printed question forms still had…
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…