Closer Look with Rose Scott

Atlanta working to convert to 100 % clean energy; Atlanta City Council responds to Atlanta mass shooting; Atlanta and Virginia students tour civil rights historic sites

May 4, 2023

Chandra Farley, the City of Atlanta’s new chief sustainability officer, discusses several topics, including her new role and the city’s mission of converting Atlantans to 100% clean energy.

Cobb County police have arrested Deion Patterson. Authorities say the 24-year-old is the gunman who shot and killed one woman and injured 4 others at a Northside Medical building in Midtown on Wednesday. Atlanta City Council president Doug Shipman talks with Rose about how the city responded.

The John and Lillian Miles Lewis Foundation recently took a group of students from Atlanta and Washington D.C. on a multi-city civil rights tour. Leslie Schaffer, a tour chaperone and a social studies instructor at Drew Charter School, and D’Angelo Taylor, an 11th grader at Drew Charter School, talk with Rose about their experience on the tour.

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