Axios Atlanta celebrates one year

One 12 months in the past Tuesday, we pressed ship on the first-ever concern of Axios Atlanta.

• Thus started a wild journey overlaying town, area and state we name residence — some of the rewarding and satisfying experiences a journalist can have.

By the numbers: Over the previous 12 months, Axios Atlanta has delivered 263 newsletters, revealed greater than 800 tales, and signed up greater than 80,000 subscribers, in keeping with our information wizards.

Catch up fast: We have tapped our almost 40 collective years of reporting expertise that can assist you make sense of the world.

Zoom out: Metro Atlanta is a hodgepodge of contrasts and challenges: a spot with an unquenchable urge for food to develop however not lose the individuals and locations that preserve it Atlanta.

Why it issues: Native media holds the federal government accountable, highlights essential occasions and spotlights notable achievements, and strengthens residents’ bonds with the place they name residence.

• It is also in the course of an thrilling and difficult time of reinvention, self-reflection and experimentation. On the day Axios Atlanta was revealed, Axios Native was in 11 cities. By the top of this 12 months, we might be in 30.

You are on that journey with us. We’re glad you are right here.

Our favourite tales

This is a quick look at some — however not all — of our most memorable items.

• Kristal explored the way forward for Kennesaw, the Cobb college board permitting non-police staff to hold firearms on campus, and the phrases of warning from Fulton’s embattled elections director.
• Emma alerted you to the fraught early rollout of the governor’s $350 money help funds, assessed a brand new Republican technique in opposition to Sen. Raphael Warnock and Sen. Mark Kelly with one among our Phoenix colleagues and defined why Macon is definitely cool.
• Thomas probed a steel processing plant dealing with hazardous waste close to a waterway and faculty, toured the Buckhead jeweler creating hip-hop’s brightest bling and waxed poetic concerning the one and solely Corey Tower.

So, what’s subsequent?

Zoom out: Metro Atlanta added 65,000 individuals from 2021 to 2022, bringing the inhabitants to five.1 million. Say “we full” all you need, however the reality is that we’re not.

• There’s loads of room to develop and tales to cowl.

First up: Early voting begins on Oct. 17. You’ll have an Axios voter’s information to assist break down the races and points at play.

Sure, and: Search for deep seems at metropolis politics, training, air pollution and… an web thriller. Together with pictures of meals.

Sure, and and: Meetups and occasions! Because of vaccines, lockdowns and mandates are much less probably, making it simpler to plan in-person occasions.

• Our first is a summit deliberate for later this month. And anticipate an off-the-cuff meet and greet the place we simply would possibly purchase you one beer.

Most essential: What do you wish to see? What tales will enable you be the perfect Atlantan you could be?