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Katie Leslie
Leslie, who joined the AJC in 2007, covers a variety of breaking news and investigative stories for page A1.
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Grant Park big-box development takes new turn with a pair of lawsuits
The battle between residents and a developer over plans for a big-box store in Grant Park intensified Thursday as backers of the project slapped Atlanta officials with lawsuits over a recent zoning change. Fuqua Development and Lafarge Building Materials, which owns the 20-acre property that Fuqua is set to convert ...
Reed: Donors to boost APS superintendent pay
Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed said Wednesday he has raised money from the business community to more than double the salary of the city’s next superintendent to around $600,000. Reed, speaking to students at Morehouse College, said he has a certain type of candidate in mind: someone with a stellar track ...
Atlanta names new 911 director
Atlanta Police Chief George Turner has named Angela Barrett as the city’s new 911 communications director. Barrett, who previously served as the director of Fulton County 911 from 2008 to 2013, began her new position this week. Atlanta’s 911 center answered 1.1 million calls last year and is expected to ...
Mayor Kasim Reed: Money available to double Atlanta school chief’s salary
Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed said Wednesday he has raised money from the business community to more than double the salary of the city’s next superintendent to around $600,000. Reed, speaking to students at Morehouse College, said he has a certain type of candidate in mind: someone with a stellar track ...
Atlanta plans $737,000 in refunds to overbilled water customers
Pending approval from the City Council next week, Atlanta plans to refund more than $737,000 to 541 customers who were overbilled for water service.Thirty-six of those customers will each receive more than $5,000, including two in one city district who will divide $46,632.The refunds are the result of an audit ...
Atlanta plans $737,000 in refunds to overbilled water customers
Check your mailbox: Atlanta’s Department of Watershed Management may have a refund coming your way.Beginning next week, 541 customers are expected to receive a collective $737,372 in refunds for overpayments on water bills, pending approval by the Atlanta City Council. Thirty-six of those people are receiving more than $5,000 apiece. ...
Another church, another stadium and another time: a look back at churches displaced by the Ga. Dome.
To this day, when Pastor Byron Broussard walks along Northside Drive in downtown Atlanta, past the block where Rising Star Baptist Church was once located, he shakes his head and remembers.If Friendship Baptist was a church where the area’s black intelligentsia and elite worshipped, and Mount Vernon a gathering place ...
Federal audit slams Atlanta’s use of grant dollars
The City of Atlanta mismanaged federal grants designed to combat crime and rebuild poor neighborhoods plagued by illegal drug activity, federal auditors say. Federal auditors questioned nearly $393,000 in spending related to $1.1 million in grants for Atlanta’s “Weed and Seed” program, which is no longer active. Of that, questioned ...
Mount Vernon Baptist Church accepts offer to sell for stadium
The Mount Vernon Baptist Church congregation voted overwhelmingly Thursday night to accept a $14.5 million offer to sell its property to make room for the new Atlanta Falcons stadium just south of the Georgia Dome, church leaders announced. The decision came after more than an hour of discussion among church ...
Mount Vernon approves deal to sell property for stadium
The Mount Vernon Baptist Church congregation approved a $14.5 million deal to move, potentially making way for the new Atlanta Falcons stadium to be built on land just south of the Georgia Dome, church leaders announced Thursday night. The decision, by a vote of 116-16, came after about 90 minutes ...
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