Mayor Kasim Reed met Thursday with Georgia State University students from Album 88 (WRAS 88.5 FM) to call the mayor’s attention to Georgia Public Broadcasting’s takeover in May of most of WRAS’s broadcast hours, and to solicit his help in regaining complete control of WRAS’s broadcast time. Former and current WRAS general managers and other students attended the meeting, which lasted well beyond the scheduled end time, allowing Reed to ask questions and become better informed about the ongoing struggle for students to regain control of WRAS’s daytime broadcast signal. Reed spent most of the meeting listening to students and did not make a statement after the meeting.
Fulton County Health and Wellness reports that 29 cases of tuberculosis (TB) have been confirmed at four Downtown Atlanta Homeless shelters. Medical Director Dr. Matthew McKenna and Medical Program Director Dr. Daniel VanderEnde confirm two of the homeless persons who contracted TB have died. Further investigation is needed to determine whether a third death of a homeless person who stayed at one of the shelters is TB-related. The doctors stressed there is no threat to the public at large since infection with TB requires prolonged (at least 8 hours) sharing of air in an enclosed space.
A Fulton County Superior Court judge has ruled that the owners of the building that houses the Task Force for the Homeless shelter at Peachtree and Pine streets in Midtown can begin the eviction process since the organization has not paid rent in years. According to a report in the AJC, hundreds of men, women and children bed down nightly at the shelter, but an eviction date is not imminent.
