🗞️ Read our January issue here.
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Welcome to 2022
January 2 — Happy New Year!
Georgia Bulldog fans are rejoicing - the Dawgs easily dispatched of Michigan on Friday night and will play Alabama on Jan. 10 for the National Championship.
But first, the inauguration of Andre Dickens as mayor of Atlanta is tomorrow. We have the details below.
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1. 2022 Predictions
🔮 Last week, we told you about the 2022 predictions that we compiled and published in the January issue of Reporter Newspapers.
All of them are now also posted online. Click here to read them all, including pieces from Jim Durrett from the Buckhead Coalition, Malaika Rivers of the Chamblee Doraville CID, and Robb Pitts from the Fulton County Board of Commissioners. And many more!
Pitts was also recently profiled by Mark Woolsey here.
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2. Mayoral inauguration weekend
Every four years, the first Monday of January marks the beginning of a new term for Atlanta’s mayor and city council. The festivities began yesterday, but you can visit MovingATLForward.com to see the whole schedule.
We caught up with Inaugural Co-Chair W. Imari Canady to get a list of ways that folks can get involved.
① Watch the virtual Interfaith Prayer Across Atlanta. Mayor-Elect Dickens is better known as Deacon Dickens to his church family, and today Atlantans from across the city are invited to join him for an Interfaith Prayer Across Atlanta. This ceremony will be entirely virtual and will start at 4 p.m. The stream can be accessed by going to MovingATLForward.com.
② Attend the Official swearing-in ceremony at Bobby Dodd Stadium. Monday’s ceremony will take place at Bobby Dodd Stadium at Dickens’ alma mater, Georgia Tech, during which all city council members and the mayor will be officially sworn in and begin their terms in office. The ceremony will begin at 1 p.m.
Due to limited capacity, registration is requested.
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3. Georgia's moment with Janice Blumberg
REVISITING A TOP PIECE FROM 2021
⚖️ Columnist and editor Joe Earle has chronicled the news in Georgia for more than three decades. When he sat down to visit with Janice Rothschild Blumberg in the early afternoon of Jan. 6, 2021, she was in a great mood.
Their conversation took an unexpected and rather intense turn as insurrectionists stormed the U.S. Capitol in Washington.
Joe writes: "As Janice Rothschild Blumberg saw it, Jan. 6, 2021 started out as a very fine day.
It was the day after the runoff election and as the votes were counted, Blumberg was rooting for the two Georgia Democrats running for U.S. Senate.
By early that afternoon, Raphael Warnock had claimed victory as the first Black U.S. senator from Georgia, and Jon Ossoff was on his way to becoming the state’s first Jewish member of the U.S. Senate. Taken together, their election meant the Republicans would lose their senate majority, and Democrats would control the national government.
'I am ecstatically happy,' Blumberg said during a phone chat early that afternoon. 'It couldn’t be better. It’s wonderful.'
Then, suddenly, the tenor of things seemed to change. As Blumberg and I talked, texts started to appear on my phone saying something shocking was happening in Washington."
Read Joe's entire column here.
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