Peggy Whitlow Ratcliffe is the founder and executive director of Live Thrive, an Atlanta nonprofit launched in 2010 to promote healthy, sustainable environmental practices. It operates the Center for Hard to Recycle Materials, known as CHaRM. Following are edited excerpts…
Former U.S. Speaker of the House Tip O’Neal famously said “all politics is local” – and while that may not be true today, it still holds for development. Literally, of course, at ground level, all development is local – though…
For public transit planners tasked with keeping Georgia moving, complex challenges have piled up, as it were, like the…
Atlanta has long called itself the “world’s next great city,” and its large number of diverse multinational residents…
Georgia boasts a whopping 159 counties, more than any other state except Texas, which is…
Dalton is a city where tradition, diversity and innovation live side by side. Known as the Flooring Capital of the World and affectionately celebrated by locals as SoccerTown USA, the city – which is 53% Hispanic – is home to…
More Candidates: The roster of candidates seeking to become Georgia’s next governor is growing longer, promising to shake up the heated race even more. Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger announced his candidacy one day after former Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff…
I was glad to see Cartersville Mayor Matt Santini's quote in our October Georgia Municipal Association Roundtable about the impact of the arts – that it’s not talked about often enough. As Smokey Robinson would say, I second that emotion.…
Around this time last year, I wrote an article about all the things I was grateful for to celebrate Thanksgiving. At the time, I saw how much of this country was overwhelmed with fear and division and unfortunately, those problems…
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