First Slice 8/25/14: APD considers cameras in O4W park
Plus, CNN to do less with less?
Atlanta Police are considering installing cameras to monitor Peace Park in the Old Fourth Ward after residents have complained about a rash of violence and ongoing drug activity.
Journalists are used to hearing the expression that, thanks to budget cuts, they need to do “more with less.” CNN Chief Jeff Zucker said during a Tuesday conference call that parent company Turner’s plan to overhaul the organization means the cable news network is “going to do less and have to do it with less.”
Atlanta City Councilman Michael Julian Bond, already dinged once for attending a family reunion while on a trip to Washington, D.C., funded by taxpayers, is back in the news for his travel decisions.
Add veteran business and civic journalist Maria Saporta to the list of people calling for the Atlanta Housing Authority to not tear down 20 Hilliard St. AHA says the circa 1910 building in the Old Fourth Ward is beyond saving.
R.I.P, Fantasy Magic World, Gwinnett Place Mall theme park that I never visited. Chalk up another win for the anti-mini golf army.
Nearly 1,000 people gathered over the weekend in Rochester, N.H., to remember James Foley, the journalist who was executed by extremists in the Middle East.
Dozens of people were reportedly injured and buildings damaged after a 6.0 magnitude earthquake shook Napa, Calif., early Sunday morning. The earthquake was the strongest to hit the region in 25 years.