With Fortune 500 heavyweights like Coke, Delta, and Home Depot all calling Atlanta home, the city’s largest employer might come as a surprise. It’s Emory University, with 32,594 full-time employees in the metro Atlanta region between the school and its extensive healthcare system. The university contributes nearly $15 billion in statewide economic impact annually, making it one of the most powerful economic engines in the state as a whole. Emory’s huge presence both in the local community and economy is RISING…
Atlanta paid deadbeat $910,00 for virtually no work
It’s outrageous that Atlanta taxpayers paid Foris Webb $910,000 for two years even though he produced little record any “work.” After reviewing invoices and emails, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution found he was supposed to be overseeing a petition calling for a vote on the Atlanta police/fire training center. Yet by the time the “consulting contract” was discovered and payments were being made, the center had opened, the referendum never occurred and petition signatures were forgotten. Mayor Andre Dickens and the City Council are blaming each other, but who issued this no-work contract to Webb? No one knows—for now. This incredible taxpayer rip off has Atlanta SINKING…
