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Q&A with the Braves’ Mike Plant
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported last week on an ordinance quietly passed by the Cobb County Commission in February that bans private lot owners within a half-mile of SunTrust Park from...
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SunTrust parking violations criminal
How seriously will Cobb County treat violations of its ordinance restricting private parking lot owners from charging Braves fans on game days? Cobb Commission Chairman Tim Lee Each violation is a...
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Cobb County’s restrictive parking ordinance first done in Washington, D.C.
Cobb County’s restrictive ordinance banning parking on private lots near SunTrust Park is modeled nearly word-for-word on a law passed in Arlington, Texas in 2010, which applies to lots around the...
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As Cobb spends millions on Braves, Arizona official calls MLB `parasitic’
Two weeks after Cobb County Commission Chairman Tim Lee decisively lost a re-election bid over his handling of the Braves’ stadium deal, an Arizona politician’s tough tact in dealing with the...
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NAACP: Cobb County chairman mailers `stupid, insulting’
The Cobb County Commission chairman’s race between incumbent Tim Lee and challenger Mike Boyce generated a stack of paper — nearly $1 million in donations and more than a dozen campaign mailers stuffed...
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Gas shortage prompted angry emails to Ga. governor
In the hours and days after the Colonial Pipeline gasoline leak in Alabama, industry leaders and citizens began lighting up Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal’s email asking for help. Gov. Nathan Deal’s office...
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Disaster strikes Alpharetta-based Colonial Pipeline again
Colonial Pipeline’s main gasoline distribution artery into the Southeast is shut down again, after a deadly explosion Monday in Shelby County, Alabama — the site of a September fuel leak that shuttered...
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Reed defends cost of pedestrian bridge to Falcons’ stadium
Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed gave a full-throated defense of the need and cost for a lavish pedestrian bridge to Mercedes-Benz Stadium in a four-page press release issued Wednesday. The press release,...
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AJC, Channel 2 push Atlanta to release public records tied to corruption probe
An outside law firm hired by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Channel 2 Action News delivered a letter to city of Atlanta officials today, saying it expects public documents requested by the news...
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Contractor at heart of Atlanta City Hall bribery scheme made bank withdrawals...
Elvin “E.R.” Mitchell Jr., the Atlanta contractor at the heart of a million-dollar City Hall bribery scandal, withdrew large sums of money to pay bribes in close proximity to billing the city for...
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A hazy scene at City Hall document dump
Reporters sorting 1.4 million pages of paper documents inside Atlanta’s old City Council chambers became mildly alarmed Friday morning when a sickening electrical smell turned into a smoky haze....
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Atlanta defends second-chance program in hiring of RICO felon
Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed’s communications office sent out a press release Monday defending its second-chance hiring program after a report in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution questioned the city’s...
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Cobb taxpayers to fund traffic control at SunTrust Park
Having Cobb County police officers at 30 intersections around SunTrust Park for games and special events is important because a whopping 95 percent of fans get to the stadium using some form of...
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Bribes and bull semen? Strange payments in Atlanta bribery figure’s bank records
Contractor Elvin “E.R.” Mitchell Jr. has pleaded guilty of paying bribes for city of Atlanta contracts. Sometimes in reporting you stumble across some weirdness. The Atlanta City Hall bribery scandal...
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SEC accuses four Georgia men of defrauding federal employees
The Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday accused four former metro Atlanta brokers of deceiving federal workers into rolling over money from retirement accounts into high-fee variable...
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