Atlanta

• Home Grown to debut Storyteller Goods coffee shop and Wyld Bird dinner service

  Crane’s Southern Fun Dip is made with pimento cheese and chorizo and cheese grits and served with Ruffles potato chips.

  Ok that sounds delicious

• Contentious vote approves $1.1B plan to overhaul Fulton jail

  1.1 billion dollars for a jail. Imagine if that amount of money went towards things that would actually reduce the inmate population like housing, food security, and access to care and services.

• Restaurants to Try

  I’ve been keeping a list of restaurants to try for a while now in Notes app. A friend expressed interest in the list, so I figured I’d keep up with it publicly.

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• The Beltline has a lofty transit plan. Will it actually happen?

  Beltline rail advocates pushed back against the plan, concerned…the rail would never actually happen. Some worried it would fall into a bucket of other Atlanta projects with no finish line

  Kind of weird to have news of a complete Beltline rail plan after the recent news about abandoning Eastside rail. The rail advocates have valid concerns. Atlanta has no shortage of plans, just execution.

• Atlanta Beltline CEO: Eastside Trail light rail no longer makes sense

  The potential for extended disruptions to businesses along the Beltline’s most popular stretch of trail played a significant role in the…decision to cancel light rail plans between downtown and Ponce City Market

  This is incredibly short-sighted. Popularity of the section should be an argument for transit options, not against.

  And don’t start with this “autonomous vehicles” gadgetbahn nonsense.