Atlanta City Councilman calls for stricter guardrails following housing trust fund ‘clerical error’; Connecting the history of food and Juneteenth

A newly published investigation by the Atlanta Community Press Collective reveals public funds were used to pay consultants promoting Mayor Andres Dickens’ Neighborhood Reinvestment Initiative, including over $100,000 from the city’s Affordable Housing Trust Fund. On Wednesday’s edition of “Closer Look,” Councilmember Matt Westmoreland, who chairs the Community Development and Human Services Committee, discusses how the situation raises concerns about ethics in transparency.

Plus, on the heels of Juneteenth and America’s 250th mark, we hear from Deborah Van Trece, an Atlanta-based chef and restaurateur, Tiffanie Barriere, an internationally acclaimed mixologist, and Adrian Miller, a James Beard Award-winning author. They discuss the intersection of history, food and Juneteenth.

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