Atlanta mayor

A congratulations is in order for Atlanta councilman Andre Dickens as he was recently announced as the newly elected mayor of Georgia's capital city.

On Tuesday Reed filed official paperwork to enter the field of candidates which includes City Councilman Antonio Brown, Atlanta attorney Sharon Gay, and Atlanta City Council President Felicia Moore. 

The disconnect between prison life inmates and getting them reconnected to the real world has been a struggle for years. Many prisoners who get released often struggle to find jobs and take care of themselves. However, Atlanta’s new mayor has made a plan to fix that disconnect by installing a new prison job training program […]

Could Atlanta's new Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms stop a harmful practice of jailing people without bail at the urging of civil rights groups?

Reality has finally set in for Mary Norwood in the Atlanta mayoral race. The Independent candidate announced her concession to Democrat Keisha Lance Bottoms late Wednesday (Dec. 21), saying she will not contest the Dec. 5 runoff results despite earlier calls for a recount. Norwood lost to Bottoms by 821 votes in a race in […]

An investigation has been opened against the Georgia Secretary of State’s Office looking at Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed’s actions on Election Day. WSB-TV reports the investigation started when a complaint about a video posted on the mayor’s Instagram and Facebook surfaced. Filmed outside of Fickett Elementary School, the video showed Reed with his wife and […]

It’s hard out here for a mayor. Just ask NYC’s Bill de Blasio and now the ATL’s Kasim Reed. Reed, like de Blasio, finds himself in hot water with his police force. They are objecting to a photo the mayor took. So what about the pic is upsetting the folks in blue? Well, in the […]