Both Borders and Mayor Franklin have had an advantage in city politics: Enjoying positions in City Hall that have given them access to power without providing a paper trail of culpability.

SP chats with JCT Kitchen & Bar’s beverage manager Lara Creasy

Two of the leading mayoral candidates presided over tax cuts that helped trigger Atlanta’s present financial mess.

“You have trouble handling anything that may be perceived as criticism.”—www.MayoClinic.com, on narcissistic personality disorder

Why won’t Mayor Franklin talk to the disabled cops?

The other things an Atlanta Police sergeant told City Hall

Everyone on the Atlanta City Council is up for reelection. Some of them should be voted out.

The mayoral candidate and Stephanie Ramage had a similar idea

Is Mayor Franklin betting the city’s safety on landing a federal grant?

But at what cost?

It’s not too late for the mayor to end the police furloughs before summer, when there will be … more opportunities for crime.

An expanded work visa program is the obvious choice for helping our justice system, our educational system, our health care system and our economy.

How can a broke city pay for better public safety?

The Mayor's Office lashes out at SP

If Franklin loves the arts as much as she seems to, then she ought to rummage through her budget and find a way to end the police furloughs...