First Slice 3/22/16: What up with this Atlanta weather, folk?!?
Pack a parka, galoshes, and some sunscreen
Few details have been released about a shooting outside Georgia State University’s Piedmont Drive residence hall that left two injured and two arrested.
Downtown Atlanta’s Georgia-Pacific building will be renovated after Mayor Kasim Reed and Invest Atlanta’s unanimous approval to issue $150 million in revenue bonds to finance the upgrade. It will add 600 new jobs, Reed says.
“It must be a strange thing to discover magic, and then lose it — an absence you can feel, but not explain or understand,” ESPN’s Zach Lowe writes about the Atlanta Hawks’ struggle to recapture last season’s winning magic. At least the team’s defense has made significant strides. They rule the league in points allowed per possession in 2016.
Morehouse alum Nicholas Richards has created a “Spotify for sermons” called Roho. The New York-based startup recently closed on a round of funding that garnered $700,000.
Brussels airport and subway explosions have left 34 dead, with suicide bombers blamed for at least one of the attacks.