by Patrick Hickey | Aug 8, 2019 | News, News 2
Expanding public transit: it has become the topic of the decade in metro Atlanta, where a population influx has outpaced the city’s rail and bus services and left residents crying out for more options. Some municipalities have passed referendums and...
by Patrick Hickey | Aug 1, 2019 | News, News 2
U.S. Rep. David Scott (D-GA) last week introduced H.R. 4067, the Financial Inclusion in Banking Act, meant to protect the nation’s financially underserved and protect them from “alternative financial services” such as predatory lenders, pawn shops, and...
by Patrick Hickey | Jul 26, 2019 | News, News 2
In a move that has been brewing for some time now, Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms on Thursday issued an executive order prohibiting the issuance of any new permits for “shareable dockless mobility devices,” aka electric scooters. The scooters...
by Patrick Hickey | Jul 25, 2019 | News, News 2
The U.S. Senate on Wednesday voted 52-40 to confirm Atlanta native Stephen Dickson as the next head of the Federal Aviation Administration as well as chairman of the Air Traffic Services Committee for the U.S. Department of Transportation. Dickson, a former U.S...
by Patrick Hickey | Jul 24, 2019 | News, News 2
Towards the end of the 2019 legislative session State Sen. Lester Jackson (D-Savannah) introduced SB 278, which seeks to consolidate the state’s public Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HCBUs) into a single new university system. Proponents...