Breaking Buckhead

The leaders of the Buckhead cityhood movement have handwaved away serious constitutional issues about debt and schools. Those issues had an airing today.

“Until we see some structure, some possible solution to it, we’re just whistling in the dark.” — Robbie Ashe, an attorney and Atlanta resident, on the problems of the Buckhead cityhood proposal.

More than 100 people — state legislators, Atlanta city councilpeople, school board members, lawyers, municipal policy advocates, and others — joined a sprawling …