For people like my parents who were promised MARTA rail on I-20 East in the 1970s and 1980s but were always told it was “too costly” and the infrastructure needed years would take years. To see GDOT do this in mere months with an unlimited budget is infuriating.

Coffee Sky: What’s the verdict on the Breville machine? Is it worth the price and investment or are there alternatives?

Everytime I watch an episode of Homeworthy, I wonder what these people do for work and how much do these homes cost

I was riding around downtown tonight and while it’s still not there… BUT If somebody can really get the nightlife, restaurant, and housing mix right around Georgia State, Woodruff Park/Rialto and 5 points. It’s a wrap. This is gonna be the best downtown in America.

THIS is how you do it

UPDATE: House Republicans have also joined Bluesky and promptly received a Blue Check bskycheck.com

There seems to be a concerted, coordinated effort from the White House and various governmental agencies to join Bluesky en masse prior to the "No Kings" protest and flood the zone. A reminder that the Trump admin is monitoring social media platforms to find excuses to revoke visas:

This!

Today I was out with my dog and saw Raven in the wild for the first time… I can confirm that’s much bigger than expected

I was in Athens yesterday and I forgot how much I really enjoy college towns. And it got me to wondering are there any good black college towns? Requirements: -must have a college -walkable -doesn’t require a car -non-college things to do on, near, and off campus

I recorded my first ever live podcast today! Thank you to the Univ of Georgia’s Urban Planning program for allowing me to hold space at their building today. Andshoutout to the Georgia Planner’s Association and having me during their annual conference.

I’m hosting my first ever life show for my podcast this week at the University of Georgia! I will be hosting a live episode for the GA chapter of the American Planning Association’s annual statewide conference!

This is exactly how the state capture of the South China Morning Post played out in Hong Kong a decade ago btw

I just saw some really tone def (black) Atlanta transplant posts and comments about why ‘natives’ should be happy and grateful that transplants are here but then were wrong about a lot of people, history, and dates 🙃

At what point did Atlanta enter its flop era and what is it gonna take to get out of it?

Your favorite local metro Atlanta columnist is back this week [email protected] Being the mayor is a full-time job and it may be time that we consider a reasonable level of salary. If not, it will continue to bring only rich people or those who can keep influencing local government.

Austin is doing the good work and could use a little bit more amplification and most importantly donations to help people get out of medical debt If you have a few dollars please donate and if you don’t, please repost

It's bleak out there. But we're gonna do some good this week. How I'd Fix Atlanta has partnered with Undue Medical Debt to help a bunch of ATLiens this week, and we need your help. Give what you can. Tell everyone you know. unduemedicaldebt.org/campaign/whe...

I had a couple thoughts about the upcoming new Publix on Candler Road and Glenwood. This is a sign that the Eastside market is reaching a saturation point and has to keep moving further… But also we missed the ball on adaptive reuse and design standards in #Atlanta

Taco loved the car wash

Hey, there’s a lot of ugly things in the world right now so instead of that… Tell me something good

NEW @crisesnotes.bsky.social PIECE: With the attempted firing of Lisa Cook by Donald Trump, the first Black woman appointed to the Federal Reserve Board, I think its important to examine the @federalreserve.gov's history of Racial Segregation. This is a long one www.crisesnotes.com/the-federal-...

Please stop gatekeeping restaurants, they really need customers

If the Georgia Democrats have any common sense they’d be laying into Brian Kemp right now about the ICE raids at the plant taking away S Koreans and also the looming threat of National Guard occupation in Atlanta

Terry Crews should now get an honorary Oscar for ‘Idiocracy’

Trader Joe’s is a dating service disguised as grocery store and parking lot designed as the Royal Rumble

You can catch me in print this week for @Decaturish! This week, I’m talking about how Chamblee is quietly becoming a great player in the ongoing Metro Atlanta development saga!

The AJC, the largest newspaper in the Southeast, is going completely digital on Jan 1. The parent company of the AJC, Cox Media is also the owner of Axios, an all digital local news outlet

This is one of my favorite pocket parks in unincorporated Decatur “The Dec”… It’s right off of Candler Road and you wouldn’t know it here unless you live in the area. I really wish more developers, especially those in newer areas think of stuff like this for communities

As seen today in downtown Decatur across from a church letting out

The Trump occupation of Atlanta is coming soon, please don’t let crime porn accounts, hidden avi’s, bots, instigators and especially those ‘for the culture’ accounts to become pro-Trump/pro-Occupation It’s meant to produce micro fragments of division disguised as discourse

Come check me out alongside two wonderful Atlanta historians on September 13th!

You don’t want to miss this! www.eventbrite.com/e/1556527137...

If someone could bring Ryan Coogler’s character development from ‘Sinners’ and Joseph Kosinski action directing from ‘F1’ & ‘To Gun: Maverick’, you’d probably end up with this generations ‘Titanic’

Radioactive shrimp has to be the craziest headline this year

Since the pandemic, there’s only been two Black films (across the diaspora) that have been given major film releases Black Panther 2 (2022) and Sinners (2025) We’ve lost out on black films being given space in theaters, something that was finally on the upswing in the 2010s

The Gilded Age tv show needs to run every year until the current one stops

inexplicably and without fail, a version of this skeet resurfaces on here approx every 6 weeks. brother, we do not care. we havin a good time.

If anyone wants to see ‘Weapons’, hmu!

It took $21M and 7 years to replace this bridge that is maybe a half acre max, which begs the question what the f#ck is going to happen when the Stitch - which is 28x larger than- needs to undergo capital repairs?

My latest newsletter: Let's Review the Atlanta Bid For the Sundance Film Festival iamkingwilliams.substack.com/p/lets-revie...

RIP Corporation for Public Broadcasting (1967-2025) cpb.org/pressroom/Co...

I wonder if it's the "I'm built differently" mentality where they just don't think any of this affects them or their hustle

I mean this with no shade but has LLC Twitter, financial freedom, and hustle bros/gals have any plans on how to combat all of the anti-black/anti-DEI attacks, lawsuits, and company rollbacks? Our businesses are most affected right now and I haven’t seen anything from them.

The word play on this Clipse album is moving me in a way that I haven’t felt about writing in a couple years now

Atlanta is becoming the new LA and Georgia is becoming the new Texas

It’s just upsetting me that the best is possible and we keep getting the worst

My latest op-ed for Atlanta Magazine, is on why I love Six Flags Over Georgia. It was my first theme park and my first venture into the world of urban design. www.atlantamagazine.com/news-culture...

my beef with so many centrist democrats is honestly less their ideology than their total lack of political instincts. the actual public is going wild with epstein speculation and this anonymous idiot is skeptical that it is playing outside of washington www.axios.com/2025/07/24/j...

Check out my latest column for ⁦‪@Decaturish‬⁩! For July, I ask with MARTA and the BeltLine faltering on actually building out their transit lines, should Emory, who left unincorporated DeKalb in 2018, with the hopes of getting mass transit, just form its own plans?