Page 14 - Sandtown News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

UpdatedMon, May 3, 2021 at 12:00 pm ET Reply(1) The National Weather Service has issued a tornado warning on Monday morning for Douglas, Fulton and DeKalb County. (Shutterstock) METRO ATLANTA, GA — The National Weather Service has issued a tornado warning on Monday morning for Douglas, Fulton and DeKalb County. At 10:21 a.m., the NWS said a severe thunderstorm capable of producing a tornado was located near Sandtown, or 8 miles southeast of Douglasville, moving east at 35 mph. At 10:44 a.m., a tornado producing storm was located over Bankhead, or near Atlanta, moving east at 35 mph, the NWS...

Comcast to award $5 million dollars in grants to minority businesses Comcast said it was awarding about $5 million in grants to minority small businesses. ATLANTA - Sandtown Pub's sales dropped nearly 60 percent in the early months of the coronavirus pandemic. Nearly a year later, owner Fredericka Jones says the South Fultonrestaurant still isn't operating at full capacity. "Super Bowl was a huge flop for us," said Jones. "We usually have all the tables full, the bars full, but not this year." When the coronavirus pandemic hit back in March, several of dry cleaner Al Patel's customers began w...

But this is a democratic-run city with a democratic council and a democratic mayor and a mayor that said you know let them destroy, give them room to destroy. and mayor that said stand down to the police on monday night. and we saw, you know, the innocent people of baltimore in their homes scared to death and businesses burned to the ground and rocks and bricks and boulders thrown at police officers. it's sad to see that in any city. >> it sure is. >> yeah. >> but you have to learn the underlying reason. >> and what do you think the underlying reason is? >> let me tell you something. like the ...

>> let me tell you something. like the city did a bad job in conveying the issue here. they didn't explain it to the people. so what happened it sounds like mumbo-jumbo. in this spiderweb where freddie gray is from over -- more people are locked up from sandtown than any community in the state of maryland. now, right there, that's a sad state. now, you have good people there. you have homeowners. you have people who have been there five six generations, okay? but the war on drugs is not doing anything. little kids just like freddie gray -- >> quentin, would you want to legalize heroin? >> no. ...

>> no. >> so it allows the political system to say, well, we don't have to worry about it anymore. >> the political system likes washing its hands. the fact of the matter, poverty is increasing. unemployment in these communities in west baltimore where freddie was killed and most of the pockets around the city for black men, latinos and poor whites is astronomical. two, sometimes three times the national average. so i don't understand what's going on. i see where harry reid directed his staff to come back with some ideas about what to do with this issue. i'm trying to figure out where was that...