While the Suburbs Talk, The City Works
The suburbs love to pick on the City of Atlanta. They claim Atlanta is inefficient, wastes money, etc, but underneath, secretly, they want the city.
Witness the City of Atlanta workers rebuilding the Sandy Springs pipes on Dunwoody Place. City workers are using city equipment to help the suburbs. Why? Because the city employees know more and even the City Council of Sandy Springs know that private contractors just don’t have the experience.
This is just another example of the the hypocrisy the entire state has regarding the city. It’s the engine of the state yet, no other government comes in for so much criticism. They chide MARTA, but more than one suburban public transit systems uses them for maintenance. County hospitals send their indigent and homeless to Atlanta facilities all the time. Grady is the only level 1 trauma center in the entire state.
It’s time for Atlanta to get its due. It is time for the rest of the state to put its mouth where its money is going.
June 27th, 2007 at 4:44 am
Atlanta gets abused when compared to other cities of similiar size, and rightly so. What you say about atlanta’s relationship to the state may be true, but isn’t that more of an indictment of rural Georgia than a vindication of the city?
June 27th, 2007 at 3:35 pm
How do you propose ATL gets its due? If ATL as a region were a cohesive organization, then pressure could be properly leveled on the state fund the area accordingly. Thats unlikely to happen since new ‘cities’ are being created everyday.
June 27th, 2007 at 8:13 pm
The amount of federal funding our region forgoes by not allowing the City of Atlanta to be larger is astonishing. There are all sorts of federal funds the City would qualify for if its population were 1,000,000+.
But, instead, we’re broken up into dozens upon dozens of local governments whose power of influence on the State is greatly limited.
June 28th, 2007 at 4:53 am
For a good article about Grady, read Cynthia Tucker’s editorial of 6/27.
June 28th, 2007 at 4:53 am
OH! Cynthia Tucker’s editorials are in the AJC. Sorry.
June 28th, 2007 at 8:40 am
Atlanta will never be a large great city like New York or Chicago, because our state’s laws on municipal annexation are ridiculously restrictive. While cities in other states can annex when adjoining areas become denser or at will in order to allow for orderly expansion, ours depend upon individual petitions and the whims of the Georgia General Assembly. For this we can thank decades of racial xenophobia and the self serving agenda of the Association County Commissioners of Georgia.
July 5th, 2007 at 1:47 pm
I don’t know what the hell has happened to this board but it has gone downhill with these silly, histrionic posts.
Grady is not the only level I trauma center in the entire state. Any fool could have done a google search for “level I trauma centers Georgia” and found out there are indeed four. Savannah, Augusta, Macon and Atlanta all have level I’s.
However, don’t let the facts get in the way of a good bitch and feel free to post more poorly researched bullshit.
July 5th, 2007 at 5:57 pm
Holy distractions! I dare say, the subject’s been changed over a single, inconsequential fact!
August 3rd, 2007 at 11:55 pm
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