First Slice 6-1-15: Oh, metro Atlanta, you dysfunctional mess
Plus, beware the Onion
Surprise! Metro Atlanta is a Balkanized mess that can’t reach consensus on such unimportant issues as transportation, education, water supply, and pretty much everything else. Welcome to a place where elected officials seem quite content to simply jog in place.
In Georgia, fewer trees can mean more bees.
Four architects and planners could get the Atlanta City Council’s OK to join the special committee that would help prevent bad design from sprouting along the Atlanta Beltline.
Where will you celebrate — or mourn — when the U.S. Supreme Court delivers its landmark ruling on same-sex marriage?
The retrial of Burrell Ellis, the DeKalb County CEO who’s accused of using political pressure to score campaign contributions from county contractors, begins today.
Jack Warner, one of several FIFA officials and corporate executives indicted in an explosive soccer corruption scandal, says he’s innocent of the charges. He does not, however, know what The Onion is.
A writer witnesses the burial of a bluesman.
What will the government agents who spend their days eavesdropping on every single one of your phone calls do now?
Social Security must be reformed so the program can keep paying benefits to Nazis. Wait, what?