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TORPY: Hate leads the shouting hour outside progressive churches
It was 10 minutes before Sunday’s service at St. Paul United Methodist Church in Atlanta’s Grant Park when the amplified hell-and-brimstone squad arrived at its steps.
TORPY: Progress on Atlanta’s Tree Ordinance is like a slow growing oak
When Atlanta discussed changing its tree ordinance, columnist Bill Torpy wrote it would be finished "not long before the leaves change color.” That was in 2019.
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TORPY: Applaud Dickens’ side step on $250M Beltline bar-hopping ride
The proposed 2-mile streetcar extension that I’ve called a boondoggle in the making and an expensive bar-hopping party vehicle gets shelved.
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TORPY: One of the last Rosie the Riveters tells her place in history
The sudden introduction to a “manly” job gave the teen a feeling of capability, as did the 50 bucks a week.
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TORPY: Why does MARTA go where folks aren’t going?
Less than 30 million people rode MARTA’s rail last year. By comparison, almost 62 million did in 2019, the year before the pandemic.
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TORPY: Trans prisoner bill brings out Dem circular firing squad
A nasty squabble among Democrats last week was a chance for Republicans to sit back with some popcorn and watch progressives devour one of their own.
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TORPY: Georgia’s DEI bill is this year’s GOP swig from the ‘woke’ trough
DEI is the new boogeyman of the right, replacing “woke,” which replaced “politically correct,” which, I think, replaced “bed-wetting liberal.”
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TORPY: Gov. Kemp employs the ‘tort reform’ squeeze on his own
Kemp’s adviser Cody Hall let it be known that the governor is ready to use his considerable war chest to primary any Republican who has the temerity to go against his will.
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TORPY: Atlanta’s drug bazaar is slowly on the mend, one house at a time
The English Avenue neighborhood is finally seeing revitalization.