Here s who is running to be Atlanta s next mayor
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Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms not running for reelection
Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms speak at a press conference for the first time since announcing she will not run for reelection
ATLANTA - After Keisha Lance Bottoms announced that she will not seek reelection for another term, the race is on to see who will become the next mayor of Atlanta.
In January, Atlanta City Council President Felicia Moore launched her campaign.
Moore filed paperwork with the state to begin raising funds for a mayoral run and on Jan. 28 officially announced she is vying for Atlanta’s top spot.
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Police reforms that are under consideration or have been enacted in several progressive cities could become a blueprint for national police policy, as lawmakers refocus their attention on reform in the wake of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin’s murder conviction.
Liberal activists coalesced over the summer around the idea of defunding police departments, and several cities have taken steps to do just that while a conversation unfolds on Capitol Hill about how to encourage police reform on a national level.
House Democrats passed a bill in March, the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, that would withhold federal funding from state and local police departments that failed to adopt new standards for the use of force and other aspects of policing, such as using no-knock warrants. The Democratic proposal would also end qualified immunity a legal doctrine that shields police officers from facing civil liability if they make a mistake in the lin
February 23, 2021 For 10 years prior to the Covid-19 pandemic, each weekday morning, Jeremy Wilhelm walked from his house in Grant Park to the King Memorial MARTA station.
There, he caught a train to Five Points and then walked another few blocks to his job in a Marietta Street office tower. In fact, when he and his wife were shopping for a house, their top requirement was being within walking distance of MARTA, says Wilhelm, a project manager and analyst at Westat.
Then, the coronavirus showed up, and Wilhelm’s office shut down. He’s been working out of his living room since March 2020 and expects to do so indefinitely. His wife, Holly, used to commute by MARTA, too, riding the train up to Buckhead. Her job as an aptitude consultant for the Johnson O’Connor Research Foundation requires her to be in the office a couple of days a week, but these days, she prefers to drive.
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