Largest Development Conference in Atlanta is Going Virtual and Moving Beyond.
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19th Annual South Metro Development Outlook Conference to Highlight Plans for Continued Growth in the South Metro Atlanta Region Post COVID-19
Michael Hightower, Founder and Host of South Metro Development Outlook and Managing Partner of The Collaborative Firm, LLC Despite COVID-19, SMDO2021 will deliver an ‘in-person’ experience on a unique, interactive and engaging virtual platform,” said Hightower. “I look forward to hearing the bold plans from the leaders who will help the region move forward beyond the COVID-19 pandemic,” he said. ATLANTA and SOUTH FULTON, Ga. (PRWEB)
A resolution in the decades-long fights over water between Georgia and Florida is probably still a long way off. Even a decision from the U.S. Supreme Court in the case it’s hearing in the water wars, which the states argued Monday morning for the second time, is likely months away.
But one thing was made clear in Monday’s arguments: Florida, in its request to the court to limit Georgia’s water use, says that it is not coming after municipal water users in its case against Georgia.
That would include Atlanta.
Earlier in the case filed in 2013, Florida had criticized both metro Atlanta’s water use from the Chattahoochee River and southwest Georgia farmers’ water use from the Flint River. On Monday, Justice Amy Coney Barrett asked Florida’s attorney, Gregory Garre, whether that was still the case.
How grass-roots efforts by Georgia s Latinos helped tip the Senate races
Rachel Hatzipanagos, The Washington Post
Feb. 3, 2021
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1of3Senate candidate Raphael Warnock, right, and former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro speak to Latinos in Atlanta in December.Washington Post photo by Melina Mara.Show MoreShow Less
2of3Maria Salazar, left, and Antonia Perez talk to a resident in early January as they canvass a neighborhood to encourage Latinos to vote in Augusta, Ga.Washington Post photo by Joshua Lott.Show MoreShow Less
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Selena Herrera s political awakening began last summer when, horrified by the police killing of George Floyd, she organized a protest for racial justice in Tifton, Ga.
One element of the ongoing fight over water between Georgia and its neighbors has been resolved. Earlier this week, the state of Georgia and the Army Corps of Engineers signed a contract giving rights to some of the water in Lake Lanier to communities in the north metro area. Though Gwinnett, Hall and Forsyth