The Atlanta Objective with George Chidi

The leaders of the Buckhead cityhood movement have handwaved away serious constitutional issues about debt and schools. Those issues had an airing today.
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A state senator from Atlanta speaking frankly about guns, gangs and Buckhead sausage-making at the capitol's back rooms.
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We tiptoe around race and crime. Let's stomp a bit, as long as racists are underfoot.
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Governor Shotgun wants to earn that title properly, Atlanta's gun crime problem be damned.
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Let's lay down a few markers, between you and me, about what we expect 2022 to do ... to us.
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Gentrification in Atlanta is fundamentally racist. So is calling the fight against gentrification "racist."
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"People have a shorter fuse. It’s almost like – ennui – like a cloud that hangs over society itself.”
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The last real-ass trap house in Capitol View is gone. In Atlanta, that has to mean something.
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The city has seen a sharp decline in violence over the last few weeks. Something is happening.
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A man was killed in the hunt for the Amber Alert-level abduction of Blaise Barnett last month. His death deserves more attention.
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And I'm offering it at a discount for the holidays.
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DeKalb Police shot Christian Dewayne Smith dead in the back of a patrol car after he "produced" a handgun. After looking at bodyworn camera video, I…
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The Atlanta Objective with George Chidi

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