How I Would Fix Atlanta — Adapt Our Growth Before It’s Too Late Roby Greenwald Atlanta is a growing city. This probably isn’t news to the kind of person who reads this newsletter. But let me make it a little more urgent for you. Our outdated pattern of growth
Good morning. In early 2024, I decided to turn a multi-year Twitter bit about drinking big beers at the airport into an actual essay. It was a couple hundred words long, then eventually it was like 700 words, then it ballooned up to 1,200 or so words, and then
Damn, what a week. Not only did we breeze past our initial goal of $10,000, and a few subsequent goals after that, we beat our previous record of $25,000 yesterday. Amazing stuff. Now, it's the final day of the fundraiser, and we're sitting on
Good morning. Y'all ready to do some good this week? In 2023 and 2024, How I'd Fix Atlanta partnered with a nonprofit organization called Undue Medical Debt. We raised more than $40,000 in donations from folks like you, money that Undue used to abolish nearly
Oh, hello. Some quick housekeeping! Each year around this time, we do a big old fundraiser to abolish as much medical debt in the Atlanta metro area as possible. This year is no different. Please save the date: Sept. 22. Gonna need you to donate as much as you can
How I'd Fix Atlanta — Support Your Neighborhood Public School By Sending Your Kids To It Taylor Cross A neighborhood public school is in or near your neighborhood. Right now. Do you know where it is? Do you know anyone who goes there? You might, but in a city
Hello hello. I hope you've been enjoying your summer. It's much too hot, imho, but what're you gonna do? Me? I've got some new stickers. That's a photo of them above. Do you like stickers? I fucking love stickers. These
Oh, hello. I hope your summer's going great so far. Personally, I can't wait for October to get here, but don't let my sweaty mood ruin your good time. Below, we've got a heartfelt piece from Ruwa Romman. But first, some housekeeping
How I’d Fix Atlanta — Hire An Official City Historian Victoria Lemos As my friend King Williams likes to say, “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it sure does rhyme.” From potholes to prison conditions, Atlanta has had the same issues since it was born almost two centuries ago. As
Platlanta is one of those things that I just assume most How I'd Fix Atlanta people already know about on account of how it just feels like that kinda vibe? But you know what they say happens when you assume. So! Platlanta is a couple friends of HIFA
Oh, hello. Maybe you've heard about Brian Goldstone's excellent new book, There is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America. It strikes me as precisely the kind of book How I'd Fix Atlanta folks would wanna read, and an important step toward
How I’d Fix Atlanta — Rebrand The Braves Now Spencer Hall In a town rife with decades of Sport Disappointment, only one franchise can honestly say it's delivered on the promise of generating actual happiness: The Atlanta Braves. The bar may be low—who wouldn’t look like
Good morning. On Saturday, March 22 from 10am-5pm, some kind humans in my neighborhood are doing a good thing. Here at How I'd Fix Atlanta, we love good things. How about details? Yeah, we love details, too. Here are some: • What? Edgewood neighbors are hosting a street-wide yard
How I’d Fix Atlanta — Let Water In, Let Longtime Residents Stay Put Sam Worley A decade ago, a design firm hired to suggest solutions to persistent flooding in Southeast Atlanta pitched one from left field: Why not turn the old Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium site into a public park? It
I like to joke—and it's only really sort of a joke—that I don't know what How I'd Fix Atlanta is anymore. It's essays, of course. But it's turned into a lot of other things over the years as
To paraphrase a buddy I was texting with yesterday, the vibes out there are total dogshit. It's bad, and there's so little we can control. But there's always someone doing some good that you can help with, and that's what this email
Good morning. Happy Thursday. A few quick programming notes: 1. How I’d Fix Atlanta was recently featured on Rose Scott’s legendary WABE show, Closer Look! What an honor. 2. We're no longer on Twitter! Our publisher/social director/Chief Doofus Officer is now focusing his efforts
It's the most wonderful time of the year, folks. That's right, Cyber Monday. To celebrate, How I'd Fix Atlanta is having a very special sale for one day only. It's the perfect gift for the Atlanta lovers on your list and also
How I'd Fix Atlanta — Establish A Public Banking Option Susi Durán The City of Atlanta has the highest income inequality in the country, an affordable housing crisis, rail that only goes in four directions, a single level-one trauma center, and neighborhood-segregating highways that cause traffic and accidents. That&
How I’d Fix Atlanta — Public Toilets Everywhere Hannah Palmer Shopping at Target makes me poop. Kroger, too. All kinds of retail establishments have this effect on me, from Richard’s Variety Store, where you have to ring a large, humiliating bell to request access to the toilet, to thrift
Good morning. We're 48 hours into our fundraiser with Undue Medical Debt and so far we've raised $7,554. Not bad! But we've got a ways to go. "well then, austie, how can i help?" Great question. There are lots of ways
I tell people I don't really know what How I'd Fix Atlanta is anymore, and it's kind of a joke, but it's also kind of true. It started out as a list of writers on my laptop. Then it turned into a
How I’d Fix Atlanta — Make the Roads Safer For All Of Us Matthew Shaer I grew up in the suburbs of Boston, where “Masshole” is a term of endearment and aggressive driving is a point of regional pride. By the time I moved to Georgia, almost a decade ago,
How I’d Fix Atlanta — Make Peace With Our Trees Rachael Maddux For the nine years my family lived in Kirkwood, I had a nemesis. She stood outside our house watching everything we did. She saw our lights come on in the morning and go off at night; she saw