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Covid Catches Atlanta’s and Pittsburgh’s New Mayors Slipping
Andre Dickens and Ed Gainey had their transitions disrupted by positive tests
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Andre Dickens Is the Next Mayor of Atlanta
Andre Dickens beat Felicia Moore in a runoff election to become the 61st mayor of Atlanta.
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Felicia Moore and Andre Dickens Face Off in Atlanta Mayoral Runoff
Current City Council President Felicia Moore and fellow city council member Andre Dickens are pushing for voters to show up for this final vote.
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Emmy-Winning Atlanta Journalist Jovita Moore Has Died at 53
The WSB-TV anchor was diagnosed with ‘an aggressive form of brain cancer’ earlier this year, reports her home station.
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Wildly Popular Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms Won’t Seek Reelection and Something Doesn’t Seem Right [Updated]
Thursday was ending the way that Thursdays usually do, with Thursday being all annoyed that no matter what it does, it will never be Friday. Then, literally out of nowhere, news that the rockstar mayor of Atlanta, Keisha Lance Bottoms, won’t be seeking reelection shocked the airwaves. At one point, Bottoms was supposedly on the…
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Tornado Touches Down in Atlanta Area; 100 Million People Could Be at Risk as Severe Storms Headed Down South
A tornado–kind of like one the one that took Dorothy from her Kansas farm to Oz–touched down in the Atlanta area and severe weather is still threatening some 100 million people from “the southern Plains through the Mid-Atlantic.” According to CNN, “A tornado warning was issued at about 10:30 a.m. and lasted until 11:15 a.m.…
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Bad Trip Star Eric Andre Racially Profiled by Police at Atlanta Airport
When TV host and comedian Eric Andre stepped foot into the Atlanta Hartsfield–Jackson International Airport airport to catch his flight, I’m sure the last thing he planned for was to get harassed by two Atlanta Police while literally being steps away from his departing flight, but that’s exactly what happened. In a series of tweets…
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Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms Moves to Counter Georgia's Racist Voting Laws
Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms doesn’t have authority to reverse Georgia’s racist voter suppression laws for her city, but she can at least educate her constituents on how to abide by them as best they can. Bottoms announced an executive order that instructs Atlantic’s chief equity officer to carry out “a series of actions to…
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Reactions to MLB Moving All-Star Game From Georgia: Some Dems Acknowledge Necessity of Action, Big Mad Republicans Blame Wokeness
The fallout from Georgia’s new voter suppression laws and the Major Baseball League’s decision to pull the All-Star Game from Atlanta in reaction to them, continues. Activists, Democratic leaders and the Republicans whose actions drove the MLB’s decision to make a bold move against restrictions at the ballot box spent the weekend taking different sides…