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#1. Mayor Andre Dickens announced he wanted to pause what major downtown Atlanta project?
It’s renovations to the Five Points MARTA station.
Dickens called for the pause after Atlanta’s chief financial officer cited “concerns” from an ongoing audit of More MARTA, a voter-approved sales tax program to fund transit projects.
As of now, MARTA says buses will be re-routed from Five Points on July 6, and MARTA will completely shut down pedestrian access at the end of July.
#2. The king and queen of which European nation visited Atlanta this week?
It’s the Netherlands.
King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima of the Netherlands began a four-day tour of the U.S. on Monday in Atlanta, where they paid tribute to the late Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. and learned about the history of the church where he served as pastor.
#3. Which Georgia-based company will increase pay for workers after strikes and pressure from labor organizers?
It’s Waffle House.
In a video message to employees late last month, Waffle House CEO Joe Rogers III said base pay would rise to at least $3 per hour in June and then gradually rise to at least $5.25 per hour by June 2026. Rogers said wage increases will be paid for by higher menu prices.
#4. What happened to the defense attorney for rapper Young Thug this week?
It’s all of the above.
Defense attorney Brian Steel was ordered to spend the next 10 weekends in jail after Fulton County Superior Court Chief Judge Ural Glanville found him in contempt for refusing to disclose how Steel had information about a private meeting between the judge, Fulton County prosecutors and a major witness. Steel asked Glanville if he could serve his days in the Cobb County Jail, where Young Thug is being held, so he and his client could work on the rapper’s defense. He also appealed the criminal contempt, which is now being taken up by the Georgia Supreme Court, which hit pause on the attorney’s sentence.
#5. True or False: A man who was present during a shooting in downtown Atlanta hijacked a commuter bus on Tuesday.
It’s true.
As police responded to reports of multiple people shot at a downtown Atlanta food court, Joseph Grier was on the sidewalk outside, rambling to reporters. Just a short while later, police said, he hijacked a commuter bus and fatally shot a passenger.
The food court shooting and the bus hijacking — only a couple of hours and a few blocks apart — created a sense of chaos in Atlanta.
