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…
I attended the second Town Hall for Mayor Dickens, this time at Peachtree Road Methodist. In contrast to the not-quite-filled pews of Cascade Methodist, Peachtree…
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…
Most weekends my husband and I go for walks in the woods. Last weekend was no different. We hiked a short trail near Smyrna called…
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…
In April of this year, Atlanta City Council Member Byron Amos introduced a resolution calling upon the Atlanta Planning Advisory Board (APAB) and the Commissioner…
…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…
The week after my SWAT tour within the Atlanta Citizens’ Police Academy was the ride along. Each member of the class was divided up into…
The visit to learn about the SWAT Team was interesting and really engaging. For me, probably not in the way the APD had hoped, but…