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Kasim Reed

The Big Apple, Biggest and Best in... Homelessness?

Kevin M. Ryan | Posted 05.13.2013 | Impact
Read More: Covenant House, Mitch Landrieu, Michael Nutter, Cory Booker, New York City, Michael Bloomberg, Francis Slay, Homeless Kids, Homeless Youth, Kasim Reed, Unemployment, Homelessness, Department of Housing and Urban Development, Youth Homelessness, Homeless Shelters, Mike Bloomberg, Tina Kelley, Coalition for the Homeless, Sequestration, Vince Gray, Impact News
Kevin M. Ryan

New York leads the nation with many superlatives: it's the biggest, the artiest and most visited of our cities. Now, it has topped its own unfortunate record, with more homeless people sleeping in shelters each night than ever: more than 50,000 each night.

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Lila Shapiro

Mayors For Gay Marriage More Than Tripled Over Past Year

HuffingtonPost.com | Lila Shapiro | Posted 01.18.2013 | Gay Voices
Read More: u.s. Mayors Conference, Gay Rights, Kasim Reed, Freedom to Marry, Mayors for the Freedom to Marry, Gay Marriage, Same-Sex Marriage, Marriage Equality, Gay Voices News

The United States may still be fiercely divided over same-sex marriage in some regions, but over the past year -- among many other signals that the co...

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Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed Gives Meet the Press a Reminder

Lauren Brown Jarvis | Posted 10.27.2012 | Media
Read More: Meet the Press, Maynard Jackson, Elections 2012, Shirley Franklin, Republicans, Kasim Reed, Atlanta Democrats, Kasim Reed Atlanta, Video, Media News
Lauren Brown Jarvis

In a recent appearance on Meet the Press, Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed's comments on race in response to Biden's "chains" gaffe, reflected where young progressives are at today.

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Partnering To Rebuild A Better America

Kasim Reed | Posted 10.09.2012 | Politics
Read More: Infrastructure, Atlanta Beltline, Third Industrial Revolution, Opportunity-Public, Clinton Global Initiative, Opportunity-Private, Kasim Reed, Atlanta, Opportunity-Working, Mayors, Politics News
Kasim Reed

Public-private partnerships are promising opportunities to get domestic infrastructure funded by putting in a small amount of public funds to attract corporate investment. More importantly, such partnerships are crucial to putting more people back to work and creating a better Atlanta.

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Where Up-And-Coming Black Politicos Went To School

The Huffington Post | Gene Demby | Posted 10.05.2012 | Black Voices
Read More: Cory Booker, Bv-Sunday, Black Politics, Kamala Harris, Bv-Politics, Kasim Reed, Allen West, Tim Scott, Black Politicians, Anthony Foxx, Mia Love, Patrick Gaspard, Black Voices News

In keeping with BlackVoices' back-to-school theme this month, we decided to take a look at the college backgrounds of some rising political stars. ...

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Tyler Kingkade

Cities Spend Money To Evict Protesters But Not To Help Homeless

HuffingtonPost.com | Tyler Kingkade | Posted 11.27.2011 | Politics
Read More: Chapel Hill, Michael Hancock, Atlanta, Portland, Occupy Wall Street Eviction, Mayors, Sam Adams, Video, Occupy Wall Street Movement, Occupy Wall Street Protest, Homelessness, Kasim Reed, Occupy Wall Street Protests, Occupy Wall Street, Homeless Shelters, Homeless, #Occupywallstreet, Denver, Politics News

As cities around the country have swept Occupy Wall Street camps from their plazas and parks in recent weeks, a number of mayors and city officials ha...

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WATCH: Rahm Doesn't Agree With Occupy Movement's Solutions

Posted 12.11.2011 | Chicago
Read More: Thomas Friedman, Take Back Chicago, Occupy Chicago, Video, Chicago Ideas Week, Take Back Chicago Protests, Rahm Emanuel, Kasim Reed, Michael Bloomberg, Occupy Wall Street, Stand Up Chicago, Chicago News

Speaking Monday at a panel kicking off Chicago Ideas Week at the Oriental Theatre, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel addressed the rapidly spreading Occupy W...

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Music Midtown Festival Returns -- With Coldplay

Kristi York Wooten | Posted 11.21.2011 | Home
Read More: Walk the Moon, Atlanta, Peter Conlon, Live Nation, The Constellations, Music News, Mylo Xyloto, The Joy Formiddable, The Postelles, Manchester Orchestra, Cage the Elephant, Kasim Reed, Coldplay, The Black Keys, Band of Skulls, Young the Giant, Booker T. Washington, Home News
Kristi York Wooten

The Atlanta gathering has been on hiatus since 2006, but returns this weekend with a lineup that will remind festivalgoers why this fest was so influential during its heyday in the late 1990s.

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Bloomberg Gives $24 Million To Other Mayors

AP | ERRIN HAINES | Posted 09.13.2011 | New York
Read More: New Orleans, Kasim Reed, Rahm Emanuel, Michael Bloomberg, Ny News, Memphis Mayor, Chicago, Louisville, Atlanta, Mayors Project, New York News, New York News

ATLANTA (AP) — New York's billionaire mayor is handing out a combined $24 million in grants to five colleagues around the country to fund programs a...

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WATCH: Celebrate Captain Planet's 20th Birthday!

Huffington Post | Alden Wicker | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Video, Mayor, Captain Planet, Phoenix Award, Atlanta, Kasim Reed, First Episode, Captain Planet Day, Gaia, Planeteers, Episode 1, Smarter Ideas, Green News

Happy Birthday Captain Planet! Forget Spider Man or Batman, around here it's Captain Planet who gets our hearts all aflutter. The ground-breaking TV ...

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Atlanta's Next Mayor Could Be White

AP | ERRIN HAINES | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: Atlanta Mayor's Race, Politics, Reverse Racism, Lisa Borders, Kasim Reed, Racism, Atlanta, Mary Norwood, Race, Atlanta Election, Georgia State, Civil Rights, Home News

ATLANTA — The city that became a post-civil rights movement emblem of the political power held by African-Americans could have a white mayor for...

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