Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms was on hand yesterday at the groundbreaking for the Westside Park at Bellwood Quarry, that once completed will be the city’s largest park and anchor redevelopment on the city’s western half. A two billion-gallon reservoir filling Bellwood Quarry will be the park’s biggest landmark, and hundreds of millions of dollars worth of developments are already being planned around it. Bringing both green space and investment to Atlanta’s Westside, the new park’s boat is RISING…
Taxpayers nervous about two Fulton Commission races
Georgia’s largest county– Fulton– has Democrat Mo Ivory running for County Commission chair. This year, she was the sole commissioner to vote for a tax hike. Now she has new spending plans that could cause property taxes to soar by 40 percent! Republican Bridget Thorne is challenging Ivory– and Thorne is endorsed by the outgoing Democrat chair because they oppose any hike. To stop the Democrats’ tax increase, Republican and retired IBM executive Paul Burton seeks to defeat Ivory ally Jodi Merriday in another Commission contest. The races could be close. DRIFTING….
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