When the airport's manager and watershed commissioner get cut loose on the same afternoon, something's up.

There is, Mayor Kasim Reed admitted to a room full of reporters. But he’s not going to say what.

Let's just talk about the future, the mayor said in an hour-long press conference that veered from philosophy to metrics to slights he has felt through the years. In short, it was Vintage Kasim.

(In a mayoral tweet, meanwhile, Reed dismissed -- or just dissed -- the latest Bill Torpy column as "Typical Torpy." Not hard to read Reed on that one. Take a read on Torpy's take.)

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State senators Greg Dolezal, R-Cumming, and RaShaun Kemp, D-Atlanta, fist bump at the Senate at the Capitol in Atlanta on Crossover Day, Thursday, March 6, 2025. (Arvin Temkar / AJC)

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