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Sandy Springs police recently posted this photo of a three-vehicle-squeeze at the Glenridge Drive exit off I-285. The SUV on the right made an ill-fated, last-minute decision to exit, causing a chain-reaction wreck. No one was hurt. (Credit: Sandy Springs Police Department)
OPINION: Picture-perfect proof of metro Atlanta’s road lunacy
Atlanta police investigate the scene of a shooting on May 17, 2021, at the Azule Restaurant and Lounge, located at 2625 Piedmont Road NE in the Lindbergh area of Buckhead. (John Spink / John.Spink@ajc.com)
OPINION: Buckhead a pied piper leading the way to rich-niche cities
This AJC file photo from March 2015 shows abandoned and broken-down houses situated next to well-maintained family homes in Atlanta's Pittsburgh community. The 2008-2010 subprime mortgage fraud crisis left nearly half the homes vacant in the Pittsburgh neighborhood. Pittsburgh homeowners, Invest Atlanta, the Annie E. Casey Foundation and Wells Fargo are working to revitalize Pittsburgh. (Photo by J. Scott Trubey / strubey@ajc.com)
OPINION | Atlanta’s Pittsburgh community: Is green truly the new Black?
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Alessandro Salvo, a contractor who has fought corruption and politics in DeKalb County, keeps pulling that county’s bacon out of the frying pan. Now he’s fighting the city of Atlanta for a contract to replace sewer lines. Photo by Bill Torpy / AJC 2018 file
OPINION: When Atlanta City Hall’s wheels grind, that’s just how they roll
Ric Stonesifer attaches the shoulder cord to the uniform of his son Kristofor after graduating from infantry school at Fort Benning. (Courtesy of Stonesifer family)
OPINION | A Ga. soldier’s dad: What do we have for all the lives lost?
Medical workers at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta emerge from the ambulance bay on Aug. 10, 2021 as Georgia hospitals are diverting emergencies because of the COVID-19 surge. Grady is only taking COVID patients. (John Spink / John.Spink@ajc.com)
OPINION: Georgia anti-vaxxers are like ‘Stop the Steal’ on steroids
Longtime sex shop proprietor Michael Morrison at the Tokyo Valentino store on Cheshire Bridge Road that features his nickname and a bigger-than-life portrait. Photo by Bill Torpy
OPINION: End of the line for metro Atlanta sex shop mogul?
Dirk Brown poses on July 21, 2021, outside the accessory dwelling unit he built in the backyard of his home in Atlanta's Virginia-Highland neighborhood. Brown finished the house a little under a year ago and rents it out. (Christine Tannous / christine.tannous@ajc.com)
OPINION: Why even liberal Atlanta looks askance at plans for more folks
The Wendy's on University Avenue in Atlanta was in flames after demonstrators blocked the interstate and set it on fire Saturday night, June 13, 2020. Protesters gathered there after Rayshard Brooks, a 27-year-old black man, was shot and killed by Atlanta police Friday evening during a struggle at the Wendy's drive-thru line. (Ben Gray for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
OPINION | The Wendy’s fiasco: The one that broke the city?
Employees of CORE, a crisis response organization, take down information and get samples at the COVID-19 testing site at the Shrine of the Black Madonna on Ralph David Abernathy Boulevard in Atlanta on June 27, 2020. (STEVE SCHAEFER for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
OPINION: Take the ‘Freedom Vaccine’ — then head to work
Atlanta Mayoral candidates (from left) Antonio Brown, Andre Dickens, Sharon Gay, Felicia Moore and Kasim Reed participate in the second Atlanta mayoral forum at The Works Upper Westside Atlanta in Atlanta’s Underwood Hills community, Wednesday, July 21, 2021. (Alyssa Pointer/Atlanta Journal Constitution)
OPINION: Wake up, Atlanta, and pay attention to the mayor’s race
A rendering of Rodney Cook Sr. Park looks to the southwest towards the Atlanta University Center in the distance. The Georgia Peace Column rises in the near distance. (National Monuments Foundation)
OPINION: Battle of the Peace Park continues for Atlanta scion
Brandon Carver, an Uber Eats driver, says a homeowner in Buckhead threatened him with a shotgun when he tried to deliver food to the wrong house. Photo by Bill Torpy
OPINION: Crime fears deliver a shotgun shocker in Buckhead
Edwin C. Atkins (left) points out the grave of an anonymous prisoner buried about 90 years ago near where the Georgia State Prison Farm once stood in Milledgeville. With him are state Rep. Rick Williams and Mary Esther Lord Smith. Photo by Bill Torpy
OPINION: The ‘sin’ of forgetting Georgia’s graveyard of the executed
A Cobb County SWAT team took a man into custody on Monday morning, July 19, 2021, following an hourslong standoff, police said. (John Spink / John.Spink@ajc.com)
OPINION: Atlanta crime-control pendulum swings toward hard line. Again
A Cobb County SWAT team took a man into custody on Monday morning, July 19, 2021, following an hourslong standoff, police said. (John Spink / John.Spink@ajc.com)
OPINION: Atlanta crime-control pendulum swings toward hard line. Again
Muhammad Ali lights the torch to launch the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. (AJC file photo)
OPINION: For every fuzzy feeling about ‘96 Games, there was a tug of war
A margherita pizza from Ken's Artisan Bakery & Pizza in Portland, Oregon. (Courtesy of Ken's Artisan Bakery & Pizza's Instagram)
OPINION: In pizza wars, everybody’s favorite new villain is Portland
A presentation is made to board members of the Development Authority of Fulton County during a meeting in August 2019 at the Fulton County Government Center in Atlanta. (Photo by Phil Skinner / AJC file)
OPINION: Fulton development board’s twisted tactics a stomach turner
Newly elected sheriff Keybo Taylor speaks at a press conference at the Gwinnett County Jail on January 1, 2021. STEVE SCHAEFER FOR THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION
OPINION: Gwinnett sheriff’s ‘book bags’? Claim holds only empty words
Then-Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed speaks during his final workday at Atlanta City Hall. Bonuses given out in 2017 during the final days of his administration were determined to be illegal, according to a pair of city investigations. ALYSSA POINTER/ALYSSA.POINTER@AJC.COM
OPINION: Hey, feds! Put up or shut up on Kasim Reed before election
Newly elected sheriff Keybo Taylor speaks at a press conference at the Gwinnett County Jail on January 1, 2021. STEVE SCHAEFER FOR THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION
OPINION: When a sheriff tries to bail out of a nasty bonding dispute
Then-U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue speaks at an event at the Spring Hollow Farm in Claxton, Georgia, on Jan. 7, 2021, about bringing high-speed internet to two rural Georgia counties. (AJC Photo/Stephen B. Morton)
OPINION | Georgia universities’ chancellor job: Please don’t Perdue it
After an altercation while in line, upcoming sixth-grader Alex Judge III, center, is comforted by his mother, Laura Judge, while they talk with Gregory Farino, left, and Carolyn Elliott-Farino before a Cobb County of Education board meeting begins. Teachers, parents and local residents gathered on June 10, 2021, to voice their opinions on critical race theory. (Jenni Girtman for The Atlanta Journal Constitution)
OPINION | Critical race theory column, Round 2: Readers hit back
Before a Cobb County of Education board meeting begins, Sandra Davis, a Cobb County media specialist, from left, and Janet Arnold Savage, center, debate with Leroy Emkin, right, a Cobb resident who has three children who went through the Georgia public education system. Teachers, parents and local residents gathered to voice their opinions on critical race theory and what Cobb County teaching and the reviews initiated by the school board on June 10, 2021. (Jenni Girtman for The Atlanta Journal Constitution)
OPINION: Why I, a white guy, am no big critic of critical race theory
Security enhancement including metal detectors added at Lenox Square on December 29, 2020. Lenox Square, in the heart of Buckhead, has been the site of numerous shooting incidents in the past two years. The Atlanta Police Department has a mini-precinct inside the mall, which has increased security. (Hyosub Shin / Hyosub.Shin@ajc.com)
Poor parts of Atlanta can’t leave like Buckhead. Not a crime?
Former Mayor Kasim Reed, pictured Thursday after an interview at Colony Square, said rampant crime has caused him to come out of political retirement and run for his old office. Photo by Bill Torpy
OPINION: Can Hizzoner save Atlanta? Ex (and next?) mayor says he can
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