$3.6 Million Will Upgrade and Expand Service in DeKalb County (Atlanta) – The Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) is receiving a $3.6 million grant from the Federal Transit Administration’s (FTA) Bus and Bus Facilities Infrastructure Investment Program. MARTA will use the funding to upgrade and replace 40-foot diesel-fueled buses with 60-foot Compressed Natural […]
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Twitter has restored a White nationalist group leader’s personal account less than a month after the social media company suspended it along with other accounts belonging to prominent members of the so-called “alt-right” movement. Twitter allowed Richard Spencer, head of the Montana-based National Policy Institute, to reactivate the account Saturday. […]
Fulton County’s Board of Assessors approved the new tax assessments, clearing the way for new assessment notices to be sent. County commissioners last month decided to keep residential assessments at 2016 values after an outcry from residents who saw their property values and thus, tax obligation, increase much more than they anticipated. On June 28, […]
On Wednesday, Dec. 7, Rep. Hank Johnson (GA-04), ranking member of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial and Antitrust Law which exercises jurisdiction over antitrust laws and competition, called on the Federal Communications Commission to take swift action to address the disproportionate use of surveillance technology against low-income and minority communities. “Such targeted […]
Due to the anticipated inclement weather, including the potential for snow and ice on the roadways and in alignment with city and state officials’ decisions to close their offices, Atlanta Public Schools’ (APS) campuses and district offices will be closed on Tuesday, January 29. All after school programs, activities and community meetings have been cancelled. […]
