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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

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OPINION: Can Hizzoner save Atlanta? Ex (and next?) mayor says he can

Atlanta police investigate the shooting scene Monday, May 17, 2021, at the Azule Restaurant and Lounge located at 2625 Piedmont Road NE in the Lindbergh area of Buckhead, where a 43-year-old man was found dead in a bathroom. (John Spink / John.Spink@ajc.com)

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OPINION: Fear is the greatest motivator in Buckhead cityhood movement

An old battery factory on Allene Avenue in Southwest Atlanta will be the site of 323 new Beltline apartments with a little help from a $2.5 million tax break from the Fulton Development Authority. Photo by Bill Torpy

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OPINION: Hot Beltline projects sizzle with tax breaks that burn folks

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Atlanta City Councilman Antonio Brown poses for a photo with his supporters following a news conference where he announced his bid for mayor of Atlanta outside of Atlanta City Hall, Friday, May 14, 2021. (Alyssa Pointer / Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP)

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OPINION: Indicted? Why should that derail a run for mayor?

Danny Darby, curriculum director at the Georgia State University Child Development Center, will retire on Tuesday, June 1, after 40 years of teaching preschoolers. A man in the field is rare. And as a Black man, Darby is somewhat of a unicorn. (Photo by Bill Torpy)

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OPINION: A Black male preschool teacher is rare. He wishes it wasn’t

Foster Godfrey, 6, looks at his older brother Rett, 8, as they are getting ready for surgery following a mauling by two Rottweilers in Alpharetta this month. (Credit: Photo courtesy of Scott Godfrey)

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OPINION: So glad for heroes in dog attack that shouldn’t have happened

A new documentary of the Hindenburg disaster features rare footage shot in 1937 by an amateur cameraman, Harold Schenck. (Photo courtesy of Dan Grossman)

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OPINION: Oh, the humanity! Atlanta lawyer is a Hindenburg savant

The eastbound lanes of I-20 were closed for more than three hours on Feb. 25, 2021, after a man was found shot inside his vehicle in downtown Atlanta. (JOHN SPINK / John.Spink@ajc.com)

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OPINION: Atlanta’s roads were already dangerous. Now add bullets

Circa 2011, nearing the University of Georgia arch on Broad Street in Athens. Big sister Emma Torpy, then a sophomore at UGA, with her brother, Liam, left, his twin Fred, and youngest Michael (right) jumping in. (Credit: Torpy family photo)

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OPINION: At UGA, life/death and the varying degrees of graduation

Homeless people in Atlanta gather along Martin Luther King Jr. Drive and some sleep on the steps of the Catholic Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in January of this year. In 2020, as the pandemic spread, city agencies that fight homelessness rented space in two hotels in an effort to shelter those infected with COVID-19, or deemed susceptible to the disease. Now, those decisions are being questioned by neighbors who say that they were never informed. (Jenni Girtman for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

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OPINION: Homeless hotel not a hit with the neighbors. Naturally

Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance-Bottoms speaks at a press conference Friday morning, May 7, 2021, at Atlanta City Hall regarding her decision not to run for a second term. In her first public appearance since announcing her decision to supporters Thursday night, Bottoms said her decision was guided by faith. (John Spink / John.Spink@ajc.com)

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OPINION: Atlanta mayoral job in a spin as Bottoms bows out

Clayton County Sheriff Victor Hill leaves the scene in northwest Atlanta where a man sought by law enforcement officers killed himself on July 10, 2019. (Credit: JOHN SPINK / AJC)

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OPINION: Teflon might be wearing thin on Sheriff Victor Hill

A crew from the group HEY! pulls down the rotten wooden ramp leading to the home of Kathryn Johnston, who was killed there by police in 2006. Photo by Bill Torpy

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OPINION: Home where Kathryn Johnston died gets a rebirth

Reporters crank out copy in 1950 in the Atlanta Constitution newsroom. Longtime reporter/columnist Celestine Sibley composes something, mid-right of photo. (credit: AJC archives)

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OPINION: Not gonna Stop the Presses! But sure gonna shrink the newsroom

Protesters march around Centennial Olympic Park in downtown Atlanta during a rally on April 14, 2021, in solidarity with Minnesota - Justice for Daunte Wright. (Hyosub Shin / Hyosub.Shin@ajc.com)

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OPINION | Killjoy after Chauvin verdict: 1,000 dead by cops each year

210415-Stonecrest-Stonecrest Mayor Jason Lary holds a press conference at city hall on Thursday, April 15, 2021. Ben Gray for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution

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OPINION: It’s raining money in Stonecrest. Some went down the sewer

Braves Fans tomahawk chop during the season opener game against the Philadelphia Phillies Thursday, March 29, 2018, in Atlanta. (ALYSSA POINTER / AJC.COM)

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OPINION: Lose the tomahawk chop? Even Braves not brave enough for that

New townhomes have crossed the $500,000 price tag on Donald Lee Hollowell Parkway. And, yes, that's the Fulton County jail in the background. Photo by Bill Torpy

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OPINION: $500K homes | Going for broke in once-broken swath of Atlanta

During the November 2020 general election, WNBA players (right) urged Georgians to vote for Raphael Warnock, the Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate, and against Atlanta Dream co-owner Kelly Loeffler (left), a Georgia Republican who was running to keep her Senate seat. (AJC file photo)

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OPINION: Kemp decries ‘cancel culture’ because he’s playing for keeps

Workers install metal fences outside the Georgia Capitol building on Tuesday, March 30, 2021, the day before Sine Die, the final date for a bill to be passed by both chambers of the Legislature before being sent to the governor for his signature. (Hyosub Shin / Hyosub.Shin@ajc.com)

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OPINION: Gold Dome as a fenced-in fortress? It beats building a moat

This is the cache of weaponry that Atlanta police confiscated from Rico Marley, who was seen in the Atlantic Station Publix restroom with an AR-15 on March 24, 2021. (Credit: Atlanta Police Department)

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OPINION | Locked and loaded at an Atlanta Publix: An American mess

Atlanta police officers and detectives respond to a crime scene at Aromatherapy Spa and Gold Spa in Atlanta on March 16, 2021. (Alyssa Pointer/The Atlanta Journal-Constitution/TNS)

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OPINION: Mass shootings defy quest for answers and not just in Atlanta

Andy and Susan May in March of 1991 after their son, Nick, who was not yet 2, received a heart transplant. (Photo courtesy of Susan May)

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OPINION: Baby got another’s heart. 30 years later, it’s still beating

Rudy Giuliani listens to testimony during a subcommittee meeting of the Georgia Senate judiciary committee at the state Capitol in Atlanta on Dec. 3, 2020. Giuliani brought fellow lawyers and witnesses who alleged serious voting problems in Georgia and asked that the Georgia Legislature choose the state's electors. (Ben Gray for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

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OPINION: Why Georgia Senate, once cool and calm, is now kind of crazy

Signs are posted along the Beltline, urging people to stay separated in Atlanta, March 28, 2020. (STEVE SCHAEFER / Special to the AJC)

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OPINION: Maybe Atlanta should nix a tax plan and tighten its Beltline

Then-Mayor Kasim Reed at an Atlanta Press Club luncheon on February 28, 2017. (HYOSUB SHIN / HSHIN@AJC.COM)

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OPINION: Hizzoner, the sequel? Can’t ignore talk of a Kasim Reed redux

A man was rushed to a hospital in critical condition during the very early hours of Feb. 11, 2021, after he was shot outside a gas station in southwest Atlanta. He was one of two men shot inside an SUV at a Chevron on the corner of Martin Luther King Jr. Drive and Peyton Road, according to Atlanta police. (JOHN SPINK / John.Spink@ajc.com)

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OPINION: Awful truth about Atlanta police tactics to deter violence

Voters had a long wait, some two to three hours, at the Park Tavern polling place on June 9, 2020, in Atlanta. (John Spink/Atlanta Journal-Constitution/TNS)

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OPINION: Georgia election ‘reforms’ or ‘restrictions’? Answer is clear

A sketch of a park that would cover the Downtown Connector in Midtown. (Photo credit: From the MCP Foundation)

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OPINION: In stitches over crazy, competing Downtown Connector plans

A distraught woman cries on the sidewalk along Sunset Avenue in northwest Atlanta after two people were killed and two others were injured on July 24, 2020, when gunfire erupted outside a house party in the Vine City neighborhood, authorities said. Rapper Raezion Boyd, who was 18 and went by Rae Rae, had just been signed to Motown Records. He was one of the victims shot to death outside the house party. (JOHN SPINK/JSPINK@AJC.COM)

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OPINION: Street violence a bad rap for Atlanta’s music industry

The city of Atlanta and some activists want to transform the near-empty city jail into an "Equity Center." Photo by Bill Torpy

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OPINION: Atlanta’s jail plan a feel-good, fake fix for a real problem

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis back in 2015, when she was the lead assistant DA prosecuting the massive Atlanta Public Schools test-cheating case. (Kent Johnson/ AJC 2015 file photo)

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OPINION: Legal conflicts work both ways for Fulton DA Fani Willis

“But, yes, you see, it’s all Facebook’s fault for ‘allowing’ her to believe in those things. So don’t blame her — blame Mark Zuckerberg, with his social media lies and his space lasers.” — TREVOR NOAH

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OPINION: Comedic gold of Marjorie Taylor Greene really not funny

Chris Harvey, director of elections for the Georgia secretary of state, shows Georgia’s new voting machines during a demonstration at the James H. Floyd Building in Atlanta. (Alyssa Pointer/alyssa.pointer@ajc.com)

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OPINION: In Georgia, elections can be murder

Matthew Cardinale belts out a tune in reference to the Atlanta City Council not doing enough for the elderly during a council meeting. (Credit: Vino Wong / AJC File)

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OPINION: City gadfly now armed and (more) dangerous with a law degree

Morehouse School of Medicine nurse Dawn-Marie Aime (left) gathers information for records before administering the first of two Moderna COVID-19 vaccines to baseball legend Henry Aaron (seated) and other people prominent in civil rights on January 5, 2021. (Jenni Girtman for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

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OPINION: Conspiracy theories endanger lives and democracy. Believe it

The view of the Atlanta skyline from the Beltline. The city of Atlanta is struggling to rewrite its tree ordinances, which Planning Commissioner Tim Keane said is too hard to interpret. (Bob Andres / bandres@ajc.com)

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OPINION: Can’t new Atlanta tree ordinance be rooted in preservation?

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