About Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh boasts several assets that are now making it attractive to developers and investors. First, Pittsburgh's extensive city streets sit close to Interstates 75-85. Second, it is an Atlanta Belt-Line neighborhood – a distinction limited to 40 or so communities along a 22-mile loop of parks, trails, and transit currently under construction. A new study has shown that the "Belt-line" project is devastating Atlanta's affordable housing, "Sustainable for whom? Green urban development, environmental gentrification, and the Atlanta Beltline," The report outlines sharp increases in home values in low-income and predominantly African-American communities in the southwest segment. Neighborhoods such as Adair Park, Pittsburgh, Mechanicsville, and Westview have seen median sale prices jump 68 percent from 2011 to 2015.
Displaced Legacy community residents experienced increased rents, and property taxes are pushing out the Black working-class families that have contributed to and invested in Pittsburgh since the 1800s. We need to fight to keep our community whole and our legacy residents in place. The sustainability of our community is essential and is why we organize against gentrification and the developers and politicians who enable it.
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Georgia Municipal Courts
The Georgia Municipal Courts serve incorporated municipalities and try ordinance violations, issue criminal warrants, conduct preliminary hearings, and hear misdemeanor shoplifting and possession of marijuana cases. The Municipal Court is the only exposure many of Georgia’s citizens have to the judicial system.
Municipal courts are city-level courts that have jurisdiction over traffic cases arising within the city limits, cases involving municipal ordinances, and certain specified misdemeanor offenses (O.C.G.A. § 36-32-1 et al.).
Atlanta Municipal Court Judges are running for re-election on the November 2, 2021 ballot.
This is a retention election. A Retention Election is when a sitting judge is listed on the ballot for a yes or no vote. In most cases, judges must receive a majority of yes votes to remain on the bench. If a judge receives a majority of no votes, he or she is removed from the bench and a replacement is selected using the state's method for selecting judges in case of a vacancy. Source @Ballotpedia.
Municipal Court Judges running for reelection:
JaDawnya Baker
Ardra Bey
Crystal Gaines
Calvin Graves
Terrinee Gundy
Gary Jackson
Christopher Portis
Christopher Ward
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