First Slice 5-26-15: Hope fades for Atlanta-Chattanooga bullet train
ACRB proposed changes, body cameras considered, and more
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- “Now we’ll never get to Chattanooga!”
Sad news, bullet train dreamers. The 17-year-old plan to build high-speed rail between Atlanta and Chattanooga is probably not going to happen.
How is Atlanta’s new energy efficiency policy working out? So far, so good, according to city officials.
Metro Atlanta police officers are weighing the potential positive and negative aspects of body cameras. Will they bring about the change demanded in the wake of rising police shootings?
Will the Atlanta Citizen Review Board make enough reforms to stop large numbers of complaints from being dismissed?
Atlanta Police have still not found the person responsible for murdering East Atlanta resident Patrick Cotrona during an attempted robbery two years ago. “There are times I can push the sadness away so I can carry on for the moment and get through the days,” Cotrona’s sister Kate Cotrona Krumm told WSB-TV. “The grief is heavy in my heart, and I know that’s true for all of my family.”
B.B. King’s daughters are claiming two of the iconic blues musician’s aides poisoned him to death.
The Iranian trial of Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian for alleged espionage will be closed to the public, his mother, and his editors. “There is no justice in this system, not an ounce of it, and yet the fate of a good, innocent man hangs in the balance,” Washington Post Executive Editor Martin Baron said in a statement.