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☆ JPMorgan's junior bankers just gained an ally in their fight against overwork. Here's what we know about the longtime exec tapped to advocate for them.
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-19 | by ( Emmalyse Brownstein | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

Read previewLast week, JPMorgan Chase announced that it would be seeking to limit junior bankers' work hours to 80 per week to tackle concerns over unhealthy working conditions. "So a lot of investment bankers — they've been traveling all week. Jamie Dimon on Tuesday addressed Ryland McClendon's new job ScreenshotThe investment banker's daughterMcClendon grew up near Atlanta, Georgia with her parents and three siblings. AdvertisementIn a 2023 episode of JPMorgan's "Women on the Move" podcast, McClendon said her career path has been heavily influenced by her parents. AdvertisementIn the 2023 podcast, McClendon said she likes to use storytelling as a tool to educate because it can be more effective than numbers alone.

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☆ Fani Willis and judge presiding over Trump election interference case defeat challengers in election
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-21 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Two key players in the Georgia election interference case against former President Donald Trump have defeated challengers in Tuesday's election. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee both won. McAfee won a nonpartisan contest, which means he will serve a full four-year term beginning in January. As she moves on to the general election, the odds would seem to be in Willis' favor as well. Fulton County includes most of the city of Atlanta and is heavily Democratic, about 73% of its voters having cast ballots for President Joe Biden in the 2020 election.

Persons: Fani Willis, Donald Trump, Scott McAfee, Willis, McAfee, Christian Wise Smith, Republican Courtney Kramer, Joe Biden, Kramer, Trump Organizations: Fulton, Superior, Trump, Democratic, Republican Locations: Fulton County, Atlanta , Georgia, Georgia, Atlanta, Fulton

☆ Sisters sue a luxury townhome community’s HOA in effort to save a historic Black cemetery
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-30 | by ( Rafael Romo | Jaide Timm-Garcia | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

But at least we found it.”Headstones at the Piney Grove Cemetery are seen amid trees and overgrowth. Melissa BuggA hub for Black communitiesAt the beginning of the 20th century, Piney Grove Cemetery was part of a thriving African American community. Fallen trees and overgrowth at the Piney Grove Cemetery in Atlanta. The lawsuit seeks a declaration from the court that Piney Grove is a public cemetery and an injunction mandating the HOA maintain and provide access to the cemetery. No.”A broken headstone is seen at the Piney Grove Cemetery in Atlanta.

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A longtime Democratic stronghold and home to the city of Atlanta, Fulton County will present an uphill challenge for Kramer, a vocal Trump supporter. I’m very passionate about making sure the citizens of Fulton County feel confident in their DA,” he added. He lost the primary to Willis and former District Attorney Paul Howard, whom he later endorsed in a runoff. Asked if he believes that Willis has the support of Fulton County after her testimony, Dickens told CNN: “Yes. In that case, like she’s attempting to do with Trump and his allies, Willis used the racketeering statute as a tool to build a broad conspiracy case.

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☆ Fulton County government outage: Cyberattack brings down phones, court site and tax systems
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-30 | by ( Alta Spells | Sean Lyngaas | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —An ongoing cyberattack against Georgia’s Fulton County, which includes parts of Atlanta, has brought some of the government’s systems to a standstill, halting access to court filings, tax processing and other services. The office of the county’s District Attorney Fani Willis lost access to its phones, internet and the court system website, according to a source with direct knowledge of the matter. The communication, court and tax systems have all been brought down, said Fulton County Board of Commissioners Chairman Robb Pitts in a news briefing Monday. A source with first-hand knowledge in Fulton County told CNN the internet and Odyssey court access are down as well. “We at Fulton County take cybersecurity seriously and we place a high priority on the protection of sensitive information,” Pitts said.

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ATLANTA (AP) — Reactions to the death of Rosalynn Carter, former first lady and global humanitarian:___President Joe Biden said the Carters “brought grace” to the White House. “There was no greater advocate of President Carter, and their partnership set a wonderful example of loyalty and fidelity. “The State of Georgia and the United States are better places because of Rosalynn Carter," Ossoff said in a statement. “Georgia Democrats join our entire state, nation, and the world in mourning the loss of former First Lady Rosalynn Carter – an extraordinary humanitarian, fierce mental health advocate, and beloved daughter of Georgia," Williams said. In lieu of flowers, Carter requested that those wishing to honor her memory do so through contributions to the Carter Center’s Mental Health Program or the Rosalynn Carter Institute for Caregivers, the statement said.

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For more than a decade, work had been nonstop in Atlanta’s booming film industry thanks to Georgia’s extremely generous tax break. Having now gone nearly five months without film work, O'Hare has been relying on a combination of savings, unemployment checks and odd jobs he's been doing for his grandmother's neighbors, including lawnmowing and pressure washing. He hopes the actors will soon reach a deal, though a recent breakdown in negotiations had quelled some optimism. Even with a deal, O'Hare knows it could still be months before he's back on set. She feels Atlanta-based actors are frequently overlooked by casting agents who still focus on New York and Los Angeles talent pools.

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☆ A 19-year-old died after a concrete mixer he was inside cleaning was accidentally started up. His employers could have prevented his death, the Labor Department says.
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-21 | by ( Grace Dean | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

A 19-year-old worker suffered "fatal injuries" after cleaning out a concrete mixer, the Department of Labor says. The machine restarted while he was inside, the DOL said. The DOL called his death a "preventable tragedy" and proposed penalties totalling $245,546. "As one of the workers left the mixer, the machine restarted with the other inside," causing him to suffer "fatal injuries," the DOL said. He called the worker's death a "preventable tragedy."

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CNN —After enduring nearly a month of heartache and anxiety, a dog owner can finally rest after her missing dog was found safely at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson Airport on Saturday, according to airport officials. Delta Air Lines passenger Paula Rodriguez’s 6-year-old dog, Maia, was lost in August at the airport, which is considered the busiest in the world. They canceled her visa and told her she would need to return home on the next flight, Rodriguez previously told CNN. Paula Rodriguez poses with her dog, Maia, in a photo taken sometime before she was lost. Her worst fears faded on Saturday when Atlanta Airport officials announced Maia’s discovery three weeks after she was lost.

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☆ Walmart is making an unusual move to deter theft by building a mini police station inside one of its stores
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-07 | by ( Dominick Reuter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

An arson-damaged Atlanta Walmart store is slated to include a mini police station when it reopens in 2024. Walmart is tapping City of Atlanta funds to keep the store operating amid a rise in retail crime. Get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in business, from Wall Street to Silicon Valley — delivered daily. More than 20 other Walmart locations in the US have shuttered this year so far, typically due to underperformance. Approximately one in four dollars spent at US grocery stores are spent at Walmart, according to retail data service Numerator.

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☆ Airline loses passenger’s dog at world’s busiest airport
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-27 | by ( Julia Buckley | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

Paula Rodriguez is currently living that nightmare, after her dog, Maia, was lost by airport staff who were bringing her to her Delta flight at Atlanta airport – the busiest in the world. Rodriguez was flying from her home in the Dominican Republic for a two-week vacation in California with her six-year-old dog, Maia, on August 18. “They called a Delta agent, who took Maia from me,” Rodriguez told CNN. When we’d got there [to Atlanta] she’d puked with distress and had diarrhea. “I called Delta, Atlanta airport, even San Francisco.

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CNN —Former President Donald Trump is expected to surrender himself to the Fulton County jail at the end of next week – on Thursday or Friday, a senior law enforcement official with knowledge of the surrender told CNN. After the 41-count indictment was unsealed, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis set an August 25 deadline for their surrender. Trump’s expected surrender in Georgia comes the same week as the first Republican presidential debate of the 2024 election cycle. Fulton County Sheriff Pat Labat has previously suggested he wants to treat Trump and the others named in the indictment similar to any other defendant. The US Secret Service has been onsite at the Fulton County Jail for the last several weeks working with the Fulton County Sheriff Department and the city of Atlanta in planning for the former president’s surrender, a USSS spokesperson told CNN.

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☆ A Reuters journalist explores his ancestors’ ties to slavery
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-28 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +38 min

It took me a few minutes of research to figure out why I was losing track of the descendants of the people George Julian enslaved. If the racial cleansing of Forsyth County was mentioned, I didn’t notice. Still hopeful that I might be able to somehow identify and locate living descendants of the people my family enslaved, I flew to Georgia last November. Her father was also a butler for a wealthy white family, her mother a cook. In 1860, Osby’s ancestors were enslaved and working the fields of Forsyth County.

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☆ Atlanta police arrest 23 on terrorism charges after protest at training site
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-06 | by ( Rich Mckay | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

ATLANTA, March 6 (Reuters) - Two dozen people face domestic terrorism charges in Atlanta after they were arrested during violent clashes between officers and protesters at a police training center construction site, authorities said on Monday. The 23 people who face charges were part of a group detained on Sunday by police who said they launched bricks, rocks, Molotov cocktails and fireworks at officers after they breached the construction site, where a new Atlanta Public Safety Training Center is being built. Opponents of the site say they want to save an important green space near the greater Atlanta metropolitan area of 6 million people. The site was subject to a protest in January that briefly turned violent as demonstrators set a police car on fire and smashed windows of buildings. Demonstrators at that time gathered to protest the law enforcement killing of an activist during a raid to clear the construction site.

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☆ ‘Living in despair and hopelessness’: A lack of affordable housing can put people’s health at risk
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-30 | by ( Renuka Rayasam Fred Clasen-Kelly Kaiser Health News | Renuka Rayasam | Fred Clasen-Kelly | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

She suspected the gray and brown splotches spreading through the apartment were mold and had caused her son’s illness. A nationwide affordable housing crisis has wreaked havoc on the lives of low-income families, like Joseph’s, who are close to the brink. Housing instability — such as having trouble paying rent, living in crowded conditions, or moving frequently — can have negative consequences on health, according to the federal Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion. And there is no county in the country where a minimum-wage worker could afford a two-bedroom rental home, according to an August report from the National Low Income Housing Coalition. A few months after leaving the apartment, Joseph and her two children moved in with her sister in Orlando, Florida, with their remaining possessions — a car and some clothes.

☆ How Atlanta's growing economy burned low-income renters and homebuyers
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-28 | by ( Carlos Waters | In Carloswaters | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

"It's a huge increase in population," said Dan Immergluck, a professor of urban studies at Georgia State University. "Atlanta is becoming a wider city," said Nathaniel Smith, founder and chief equity officer at the Partnership for Southern Equity. Some Atlanta locals believe ambitious urban redevelopment projects, such as the BeltLine, have contributed to fast-rising prices in the area. "We've put about $700 million into the BeltLine to date," said Atlanta BeltLine Inc. CEO Clyde Higgs. That has caused a number of good things and also a number of pressures within the city of Atlanta."

☆ Atlanta to pay $1M to Rayshard Brooks’ family after deadly police shooting
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-22 | by ( Chantal Da Silva | The Associated Press | Chantal Da Silva Is A Breaking News Editor For Nbc News Digital Based In London. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +3 min

Brooks was fatally shot by an officer amid national unrest over police brutality after a Minneapolis police officer murdered George Floyd. Two officers located Brooks and bodycam footage showed they had a calm conversation with him for almost 40 minutes. In the footage, Brooks could be seen holding a stun gun he had grabbed from an officer as he ran away. “While we are disappointed that prosecutors didn’t pursue a criminal case against the officers involved in Mr. Brooks’ death, we continue to hold out hope that the Dept. of Justice will intervene in this matter,” Brooks' family's attorneys said on Monday, according to WXIA.

☆ Frontier flight diverted to Atlanta after passenger found with box cutter
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-12 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

Nov 12 (Reuters) - A Frontier Airlines flight heading to Florida was diverted to the city of Atlanta after a passenger on board the aircraft was observed in possession of a box cutter, the airline said in a statement on Saturday. "The passenger in question was taken into custody by Atlanta law enforcement," a Frontier spokesperson said in a statement. No one was injured in the incident and passengers were offered a new flight on Saturday morning to Tampa, Florida. "So I went up to talk to the flight attendants in the front of the airplane," Hoffman told NBC News. "They ended up telling me that they were going to land the plane immediately and we were down in 20 minutes."

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