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Decatur provides model of how Atlanta can reorient its growth to people
By Guest Columnist MIKE MORGAN, an Atlanta-based landscape architect and urban designer Growth has been, for decades, one of the Atlanta’s primary economic forces. Development, infrastructure,...
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Metro Atlanta’s transportation needs can’t wait another decade to be fixed
By Guest Columnist TERRY LAWLER, executive director of the Regional Business Coalition of Metropolitan Atlanta While the recent defeat of the transportation referendum was not well received by Wall...
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Former UGA coach Jim Donnan lost sight of the true value of money
By Guest Columnist DAVID GELLER, founder and CEO of GV Financial Advisors It might be hard to distinguish the barks from the boo’s at the University of Georgia these days. Not many football fans or...
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Georgia businesses and quality of life would benefit from public arts funding
By Guest Columnist DAVE PETERSON, co-founder of Atlanta-based global consulting company North Highland All people, particularly children, need art and cultural experiences. Children need arts and...
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Midtown Atlanta going from Blueprint to Greenprint to an urban ecodistrict
By Guest Columnist KEVIN GREEN, president and CEO of the Midtown Alliance Depending on whom you ask, the term “sustainability” can have vastly different meanings. In the context of a dense, urban...
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Urban League of Greater Atlanta aims to be area’s ‘economic first responder’
By Guest Columnist NANCY FLAKE JOHNSON, president and CEO of the Urban League of Greater Atlanta On more than one occasion when I share the many services of the Urban League of Greater Atlanta, I’ve...
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Don’t let wind energy tax credits go away because of the fiscal cliff
By Guest Columnist JENNETTE GAYER, coordinator of policy development, research and legistlative advocacy for Environment Georgia This past Friday, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar made a...
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New Atlanta Falcons stadium can be a catalyst to lift nearby communities
By Guest Columnist ABLE MABLE THOMAS, a resident of the English Avenue community and the newly elected state representative for District 56 Go Falcons! Let me first state that I am a Big Falcons Fan...
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A wish list for ‘pragmatism and compromise’– not ‘brinksmanship’
By Guest Columnist LISA BORDERS, president of the Grady Health Foundation and former president of the Atlanta City Council and mayoral candidate The coming holidays puts one in mind of wishes and...
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Hoping the Atlanta region will regain its ‘Can Do’ swagger in 2013
By Guest Columnist TERRY LAWLER, executive director of the Regional Business Coalition of Metropolitan Atlanta As we approach 2013 and the potential “fiscal cliff”, the metro Atlanta region is facing...
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Slashing state services again will do lasting economic damage to Georgia
By Guest Columnist ALAN ESSIG, executive director of the non-profit, non-partisan Georgia Budget and Policy Institute You’ve heard the old joke. The Georgia Legislature is back in Atlanta, so you...
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Georgia facing healthcare fiscal cliff if it refuses federal Medicaid expansion
By Guest Columnist PAT GARDNER, state representative for House District 57 (D-Atlanta) Two important healthcare issues loom large for the General Assembly beginning January 14th. Legislators will...
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Educational gains in Georgia must not leave minorities and the poor behind
By Guest Columnist DANA RICKMAN, director of the policy and research for the Georgia Partnership for Excellence in Education When it comes to education, is Georgia a national leader or is our state...
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Hartsfield-Jackson provides runway for metro Atlanta’s growth
By Guest Columnist DARAKA E. SATCHER, partner and chief operating officer at the Pendleton Group consulting firm A few times a week, I have the privilege of working from a location where I have a great...
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Atlanta BeltLine a path for private entities to partner for public good
By Guest Columnist VALARIE WILSON, executive director of the BeltLine Partnership, a private, non-profit organization dedicated to fostering support for Atlanta’s BeltLine Standing on the playground at...
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Georgia’s Gov. Nathan Deal being left behind as other Republican governors...
By Guest Columnist TIMOTHY SWEENEY, director of health policy at the Georgia Budget and Policy Institute A rule of thumb holds that when something happens three times in short order, it’s a trend. So...
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Atlanta prepares for its future as it builds its first modern streetcar
By Guest Columnist LEON EPLAN, former commissioner of the City of Atlanta’s Department of Planning and Development A work progresses on the Atlanta Streetcar, the city has taken a giant step towards...
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Time for Georgia to recommit to water conservation and regional plans
By Guest Columnist LAUREN JOY, an associate attorney with the Southern Environmental Law Center In 2011, many Atlantans were relieved by the court determination that water supply was an authorized...
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Georgia’s green building lead at risk as state sides with forestry industry
By Guest Columnist DAVID FREEDMAN, executive director of the U.S. Green Building Council, Georgia Chapter Can the forestry industry and the green building industry co-exist in Georgia? Most Georgians...
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Replacing the notion of ‘off-shoring’ and ‘on-shoring’ with ‘right-shoring’
By Guest Columnist JEFF SWEENEY, co-founder and executive vice president of East-West Manufacturing, an Atlanta-based domestic offshore manufacturing company Is offshoring inherently bad? Do...
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