Atlanta residents get to vote Tuesday on a bond referendum worth up to $250 million. If approved, the city says the money will address a nearly billion-dollar backlog of repairs to streets, bridges and municipal buildings. Mayor Kasim Reed encourages voters to cast a “yes” ballot to make Atlanta a more livable city. But an open-government advocate wonders if we can trust the city to be above-board without a binding project list and transparency, given its recent history. In our third column, a country doctor writes about the huge benefits of increasing our state’s tobacco tax.
