Thursday, February 14, 2013
Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed announces expansion of Centers of Hope program; cites public safety improvements and city’s strong financial outlook during his annual State of the City business breakfast on Wednesday.
Mayor Kasim Reed highlighted his administration’s many accomplishments over the past three years and outlined his vision for the future of Atlanta Wednesday during his annual State of the City business breakfast. In a 40-minute speech attended by more than 900 business and community leaders at the Atlanta Marriott Marquis, Reed focused on significant gains in public safety, economic development and the city’s financial stability. Reed also announced that the Centers of Hope initiative will open two additional recreation centers this year. “While I am never satisfied because there is always more work to be done, I can stand here for the first time since I have had the pleasure of giving this address and state proudly and confidently that …
Thursday, December 20, 2012
The national group of mayors, including a dozen from Georgia, sent a letter to President Obama Wednesday outlining the need to change gun legislation in the United States.
Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed joined more than 750 mayors across the country Wednesday in sending a letter to President Barack Obama in response to the shooting in Newtown, Conn., and the need to change gun legislation in the United States. Reed was among a dozen state mayors to join the coalition Mayors Against Illegal Guns. The group is led by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino. The letter read, in part, "As mayors, we are charged with keeping our communities safe. But too many of us have sat with mothers and fathers of children killed with guns. Twenty-four children enrolled in public schools in your hometown of Chicago were shot to death just last year. At the moving memorial service on Sunday evening, …
Friday, November 9, 2012
Atlanta mayor tells audience at breakfast put on by the Midtown-based Carter real estate group that he will not seek higher office in our nation's capital.
At a breakfast Thursday morning hosted by the Midtown-based investment, development and advisory firm Carter, Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed confirmed that he would run for re-election next year and would not be seeking a higher office in Washington D.C., where he he has made numerous trips to in recent months stumping for President Barack Obama. WABE reports that Reed told the audience of around 150 at the Atlanta History Center that, “I’m going to be Mayor of the city of Atlanta until the last minute of the last day of the last hour of my term if I’m fortunate enough to be re-elected.” Reed was elected as Atlanta's 59th mayor in 2009 and was officially inaugurated on January 4, 2010. It appears now that he will seek a second term in 2013. Will…
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Virginia Highland residents are among those filling Reed's re-election campaign coffers.
Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed won't be up for re-election until 2013, but hundreds of people and companies nationwide are already donating to his campaign, including a handful from Virginia-Highland. About $8,700 from Va-Hi businesses and residents has flowed to Reed's re-election kitty in 2011. That's just a fraction of the nationwide total during the last six months of $640,000, according to the latest filing to the Georgia Government Transparency and Campaign Finance Commission. Donations from Virginia-Highland are varied. Promoter Peter Conlon maxed out his personal contribution of $2,500. Smaller gifts come from a construction company boss, a management consultant and attorneys. This year's donations bring Reed's campaign fund up to $3.4 …
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6:14 pm on Monday, April 1, 2013
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