In an interview with the AJC, Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed opened up about the impending renovations to Philips Arena, home of the NBA’s Atlanta Hawks. The total pricetag looks to be somewhere north of $250 million, with taxpayers footing the bill for some $150 million of that. The debate over paying for arenas for billion dollar sports franchises with public money, and the plethora of studies showing how that process virtually never pays off for taxpayers is due to start up again, re-opening Braves and Falcons wounds that have hardly begun to heal. More public tax dollars that help millionaire owners way more than the taxpayers themselves means this ship is DRIFTING…
City has entire police force resign
The small town of Milner (population 1,000) in Lamar County, about 45 minutes southeast of Atlanta, saw its police chief and all five officers resign due to a a “lack of trust in the city council and mayor.” Chief Lamar Bunn accused Mayor Craig Timmons of placing a tracker on his personal truck as part of an odd saga that led to the resignations. Milner city officials say they’ll likely push to unincorporate, since the police were about the only service the county didn’t provide. The odd circumstances have Milner and its residents SINKING…
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