http://www.decaturmetro.com/2010/05/24/is-atlanta-doomed/ Decatur Georgia News, Events, Atlanta News Mon, 15 Sep 2014 01:05:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0 http://www.decaturmetro.com/2010/05/24/is-atlanta-doomed/#comment-41012 Fri, 28 May 2010 01:24:37 +0000 http://www.decaturmetro.com/?p=20705#comment-41012 The solution would be for metro Atlanta to leverage its South-leading immigrant population. Almost 15 years after its pseudo-turn as a world city in the Olympics, it could become a true world destination — a place that draws some of the best and brightest from elsewhere by welcoming them and making it easy for them to get a foothold in a new country. But the same attitudes about taxes and public investment that are driving Atlanta into the ground go hand-in-hand with the sort of xenophobia that runs wild in places like Cobb and North Fulton — and under the Gold Dome. So that opportunity, too, will be lost. Look for the Legislature to seal the deal next session by passing a me-too Arizona-style identity statute.
Georgia’s leadership could not be more inept or inane. We’ll soon be a suburb of Birmingham — and a national joke.

]]> http://www.decaturmetro.com/2010/05/24/is-atlanta-doomed/#comment-40588 Mon, 24 May 2010 21:28:49 +0000 http://www.decaturmetro.com/?p=20705#comment-40588 At least now we have a Congressman on the Transportation Committee. Hank was appointed to Transportation & Infrastructure a couple of weeks ago.

]]> http://www.decaturmetro.com/2010/05/24/is-atlanta-doomed/#comment-40575 Mon, 24 May 2010 18:38:11 +0000 http://www.decaturmetro.com/?p=20705#comment-40575 Check out this article in Atlanta Monthly:
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/06/here-comes-the-neighborhood/8093

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