Thursday, March 7, 2013
New stadium plans have been approved by both the mayor of Atlanta and the Falcons owner.
The new $1 billion dollar stadium deal got a huge boost today, when Falcons owner Arthur Blank and Mayor Kasim Reed announced a joint agreement to build the new site. According to a joint press event, the site of the new stadium will be exactly south of the current Dome. Plans state that if approved by the Atlanta City Council, the new stadium will not cross over Northside Drive to the west. Instead the site will be placed where there is currently Dome parking lots and the nearly 150 year old church, Friendship Baptist. Mayor Reed said at the press conference that he has been in talk with Friendship Baptist and those talks will continue. "If Friendship says no to our plans, then we will look at locating the new stadium on the north side," …
Thursday, February 14, 2013
Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed announces expansion of Centers of Hope program; cites public safety improvements and city’s strong financial outlook during his annual State of the City business breakfast on Wednesday.
Mayor Kasim Reed highlighted his administration’s many accomplishments over the past three years and outlined his vision for the future of Atlanta Wednesday during his annual State of the City business breakfast. In a 40-minute speech attended by more than 900 business and community leaders at the Atlanta Marriott Marquis, Reed focused on significant gains in public safety, economic development and the city’s financial stability. Reed also announced that the Centers of Hope initiative will open two additional recreation centers this year. “While I am never satisfied because there is always more work to be done, I can stand here for the first time since I have had the pleasure of giving this address and state proudly and confidently that …
Thursday, December 20, 2012
The national group of mayors, including a dozen from Georgia, sent a letter to President Obama Wednesday outlining the need to change gun legislation in the United States.
Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed joined more than 750 mayors across the country Wednesday in sending a letter to President Barack Obama in response to the shooting in Newtown, Conn., and the need to change gun legislation in the United States. Reed was among a dozen state mayors to join the coalition Mayors Against Illegal Guns. The group is led by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino. The letter read, in part, "As mayors, we are charged with keeping our communities safe. But too many of us have sat with mothers and fathers of children killed with guns. Twenty-four children enrolled in public schools in your hometown of Chicago were shot to death just last year. At the moving memorial service on Sunday evening, …
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Donors in southwest Atlanta have given about $35,000 so far this year.
Mayor Kasim Reed's part of town has started 2011 with some $35,000 in donations to his re-election bid, even though the vote is two years away. Nationwide, Reed has collected $640,000 from business, individuals and organizations in the first six months of 2011, according to the latest filing to the Georgia Government Transparency and Campaign Finance Commission. Commercial, lobby and law firms lead in donations. Kemi Construction, Gude Management and Russell New Urban Development all build, design or manage big works like utility infrastructure, roads and large buildings, and some of their Cascade brass have made donations to Reed. Kemi's and Russell's bosses have each donated the maximum for any one giver: $2,500. And the man who leads …
Barbara Baggerman
2:24 pm on Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Mayor Reed insults the intelligence of his constituents by saying that "there would be no cost to City of Atlanta residents, and that visitors to Atlanta will be footing the bill," just because the money would come from the hotel-motel tax. Duh! Of course it would cost us: it would be robbing us of that tax money that the City desperately needs to spend on more important things, and instead spend… more ›