Mayor Andre Dickens announced the enhancement of the Office of Sustainability and Resiliency by naming Chandra Farley as the City’s Chief Sustainability Officer and the promotion of John R. Seydel III to Deputy Chief Sustainability Officer. Farley and Seydel will be tasked with expanding the City’s resilience and sustainability efforts.
The bachelor's and master's social work programs at Clark Atlanta University’s Whitney M. Young Jr. School of Social Work have been reaffirmed accreditation by the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) Commission on Accreditation for another eight years, ending in June 2030.
In the midst of a hyper-partisan political environment, Republicans, Democrats, and Independents in Georgia have found something to work on together: democracy.
Today, Congresswoman Nikema Williams (GA-05) issued the following statement after President Joe Biden announced announced that the Department of Education is extending the pause on student loan repayment, interest, and collections through 2022, providing up to $20,000 in debt cancellation to Pell Grant recipients and up to $10,000 in debt cancellation to non-Pell Grant recipients, and capping the amount borrowers would pay monthly for undergraduate loans at 5 percent of their income:
Boys & Girls Clubs of America announced the official launch of its partnership with Q5id Guardian to support safety in local Clubs nationwide. Q5id, Inc. created the new Q5id Guardian app to revolutionize how missing people are found through immediate, localized alerts at the tap of a button.
Graduates from the Class of 2021 will earn over $1 million more during their lifetimes than they would have without going to college, and earning their bachelor’s degree, according to a new University System of Georgia (USG) study.
The 2022 Absentee Ballot Application process opened for Fulton County residents on Monday, August 22, 2022 for the November 8 General Primary Election.
The Fulton County Department of Registration and Elections is deploying its Voter Education Outreach team throughout the county as part of its ongoing effort to recruit poll workers. Elections is seeking more than 2,000 eligible residents to serve as poll workers during the following times:
President of the Northeast Los Angeles Hotel Owners Association and friend of AAHOA, Ray Patel, has been vocal against a measure that would require Los Angeles hotels to issue vouchers to unhoused residents for vacant hotel rooms
Georgia State’s Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology (CJC) is bringing together the university’s women leadership community with members of metro Atlanta’s highly respected female command staff to launch the state’s first Leadership Academy for Women in Law Enforcement (LAWLE).
The Georgia Institute of Technology has named Danette Joslyn-Gaul as its new general counsel and vice president for Ethics, Compliance and Legal Affairs, effective Sept. 19.
The Georgia State University Alumni Association has named three new members to its Board of Directors and 18 new members to the Young Alumni Council board.
The Motor Carrier Compliance Division (MCCD) of the Georgia Department of Public Safety (DPS) recently participated in SafeDRIVE (Distracted Reckless Impaired Visibility Enforcement), from August 2-4, along with law enforcement partners in Florida, North Carolina, and South Carolina. SafeDRIVE is a national campaign that targets unsafe driving behavior, with a focus on highway and interstate safety.
Fisher Phillips, a national labor and employment law firm representing employers, is pleased to announce that Phillip Bauknight has been selected for inclusion in the NJBIZ 2022 40 Under 40 list.
Earlier this month, the Los Angeles City Council voted to let Angelenos decide the fate of the Hotel Land Use and Replacement Housing Requirements Ordinance at the next primary election on March 5, 2024
War in Ukraine. COVID-19 variant BA.5. Rising interest rates. High fuel costs. Soaring food prices. West coast supply chain failures. Chinese economic and banking crisis. Taiwan. Political races across the country. A disconnect between Washington policies and small businesses.
On Tuesday, August 9th, the Georgia Chamber of Commerce hosted their annual Congressional Luncheon in Macon, Georgia at the Edgar H. Wilson Convention Center with a sold-out crowd. Each year, the luncheon brings together over one thousand business leaders, state and federal elected officials, and community champions from all regions of the state.