Atlanta mayor’s race begins with talk of ethics, murder, the Streetcar – and Kasim Reed
Eight candidates for mayor of Atlanta gathered for lunch recently to give the Buckhead Coalition a taste of what’s to come. It appears that we’ll be talking about ethics, the Atlanta Streetcar, corruption, a new subway line, gangs, murder and incumbent Kasim Reed. The event was largely a beauty pageant – an opportunity for check-writers to find out which candidates can walk and chew gum at the same time. Only two questions were asked. Candidates decided for themselves whether
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Here is a throwback column I penned back in 2002 for a magazine I was helping to produce, along with the late Delores Bundy, for Atlanta businessman Bruce Dobbs called The THIRD EYE. Sadly, it was never published. POLITICS 411
Maynard Eaton’s Musing
Bill Campbell On V-103 I suppose there is life after politics— former Mayor Bill Campbell has resurfaced on Atlanta’s black focused radio airwaves—but is it a quality, quintessential new life or a quizzical, quixotic one? The A
