When a municipal option sales tax (MOST) was pitched to Atlantans in 2004 as a way to offset spiraling water and sewer rates, more than 70 percent of voters approved the 1-cent tax. When the Franklin administration went back to the polls in 2008 to ask v

We told you last night that GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum will make his first post-surge appearance in Georgia on Sunday. This morning, The Hill newspaper in D.C. reports that Santorum has included this state in a first round of TV ads – to ma

An Atlanta-based non profit is pitching their community revitilization model to Chattanooga, but the people it COULD affect, aren't too happy about it. Former Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin and the group Purpose Built Communities explained their program

AP photo John Travolta, who has come South to film a movie co-starring Robert De Niro, was spotted dining in Buckhead Tuesday night. We’re told he and three friends dined at The Palm, where he already has a signed caricature on the wall. Folks reco

A look at the Downtown Connector at 7 p.m. Saturday Jan. 14th. ATLANTA, Ga. I have a little story to tell you about my day, Tuesday. And about everyone's immediate future in

A memorial service in honor of civil rights activist Ed Amir Charles Brown Jr. will be held at the Woodruff Arts Center on Sunday, Jan.

FANDOM Posted Monday, January 9, 2012 5:30 PM Rembert Browne Daniel Shirey/US Presswire This past Friday, an article was written on the Internet. The piece, " City of Atlanta Doesn't Deserve To Win ," states that the city's mediocre fan base is the prima

Former Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin will speak Friday at the Martin Luther King Jr. Legacy Lecture presented by Union Institute & University. Franklins speech at 1 p.m. at the Kingsgate Marriott, 151 Goodman Drive, Corryville, is free to the public. Fr

Dunwoody Mayor Ken Wright, Georgia Governor Deal, and Dunwoody City Council Members Robert Wittenstein and Doug Thompson during the 2011 Georgia rides to the capitol event (Timothy J/Creative Commons) “I saw the quote,” said Kyle Azevedo, CEO of Atlanta-

Women entrepreneurs, with full or partial ownership of more than a third of global businesses, win just 1 percent of government contracts, according to Patricia Francis, executive director of the International Trade Centre. They may get a bigger piece o