From the Saporta Report:

! Hurricane Helene rocked the Southeast in late September, bringing devastation to parts of Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, and more. The storm, a Category 4 at its peak, arrived in Georgia on Friday night and affected almost every part of the state. Gov. Brian Kemp has called the damage left by the storm “unprecedented.” Georgia cities […]

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! One year after organizers delivered 116,000 signatures to city hall in an effort to get the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center, widely known as “Cop City,” onto a ballot referendum for voters to make their voices heard, the community dissent over the project took center stage at a city council meeting on Monday.  “Stop Cop […]

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! At the Aug. 22 Invest Atlanta and Urban Residential Finance Authority board meeting, the city’s economic development authority green-lit over $180 million in bonds, loans and grant funds to various affordable housing projects. It’s part of an ongoing city goal to create and preserve 20,000 affordable housing units by 2030.  In May, Invest Atlanta announced […]

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! It can be hard to sort out what’s news in the middle of a dumpster fire.

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