The communications director for Atlanta Streetcar Inc. today talks with me about progress on the new transit line, scheduled to begin service later this year. She also sheds some light on her background and what brought her to Atlanta to work for the streetcar project. In our second piece, a young Auburn Avenue business owner shares the demands of a local business group that wants some financial relief for the losses they endured during construction.

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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., arrives to a news conference on Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2025, outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington. MTG’s metamorphosis isn’t all that rare. It’s just more in our face, writes guest contributor Brian Robinson. (Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP)

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Austin Walters died from an overdose in 2021 after taking a Xanax pill laced with fentanyl, his father said. A new law named after Austin and aimed at preventing deaths from fentanyl has resulted in its first convictions in Georgia, prosecutors said. (Family photo)

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