Bill Torpy
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Dunwoody, GA, United States
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OPINION: The endless debate over cars, streets and bikes carries on
Across from Atlanta City Hall on Central Avenue was nearly a block of on-street parking where folks needing to run into that building — or to the nearby Fulton County Courthouse — could do so relatively painlessly. → Read More
OPINION: DeKalb ethics board: The journey of a snakebit agency
The DeKalb County Ethics Board conjures up many descriptions. Snakebit, troubled and cursed immediately come to mind. → Read More
Breakdown: The Atlanta true crime podcast
Breakdown true crime podcast: How to subscribe, Where to find all seasons of the true-crime podcast Breakdown from The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. → Read More
OPINION: Out of options, shelter threatens to kill dogs. Public steps up
The plea was urgent. And dire: The Dekalb County Animal Shelter was packed with unwanted dogs. Historically overcrowded. If the public didn’t adopt some, like 150 by month’s end, animals would be euthanized. → Read More
OPINION: Kennesaw’s walking wonder, 4,023 days straight. And counting
Day after day, week after week, year after year, Tracey Floyd Viars pops up on my Facebook feed, victoriously hoisting her camera above her 5-foot frame and flashing the feigned smile reminiscent of a beauty queen atop a parade float. → Read More
OPINION: Stacey Abrams left it all on the field but won’t walk away empty-handed
Weep not for Stacey Abrams. She’ll do just fine going forward. → Read More
OPINION: Herschel Walker’s candidacy: The Mess Express
It’s fitting that old #34 lost roughly by a Sanford Stadium worth of voters. → Read More
OPINION: Underground Atlanta’s ‘Mystery Man’ slowly tries to revive the attraction
Shaneel Lalani, the 33-year-old owner of Underground Atlanta, was bemused when I referred to him as a “mystery man” two years ago when he bought the iconic and long-troubled property. → Read More
OPINION: Ponce development shows transience of Atlanta’s favorite places
The bulldozers will be coming to flatten what The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has described as a “beloved gritty stretch” of Ponce de Leon Avenue. → Read More
OPINION: Thanks for nothing: The time a bus full of Black soldiers got busted
For decades, Robert Green, a retired mailman from Atlanta, carried a secret from a Thanksgiving Day long ago. It was an embarrassing and infuriating incident that he quickly brushed off. Still, it clung to him. → Read More
OPINION: Abortion battle redux in Georgia? GOP wants no part of that
The issue of abortion is not settled in Georgia. At least for now. → Read More
OPINION: Color Georgia crimson. Or at least ‘tickle me pink’
My AJC colleague, Greg Bluestein, is routinely ahead of the game when it comes to breaking political stories. → Read More
OPINION: Fulton Judge McBurney, the state’s hardest working person in robes
It seems the most contentious legal cases in Georgia have a common denominator: Judge Robert McBurney. → Read More
OPINION: Fancy rooftops for Atlanta’s highways. Are the feds buying it?
The Stitch is the massive deck proposed to cover a stretch of the Downtown Connector. It recently got a boost from the Atlanta City Council when it hit up the feds for $10 million to help make the project happen. → Read More
OPINION: Atlanta council takes a bite at bothersome barking dogs
The city of Atlanta faces a myriad of intractable issues — crime, homelessness, a lack of affordable housing, an economic inequality divide. → Read More
OPINION: Murder or self-defense? Chaka Zulu’s case has many watching
It was an ugly late-night beatdown in a parking lot, one that ended in a shooting death not unlike others that have plagued Atlanta. → Read More
OPINION: Herschel Walker and election enter the red zone
It’s Labor Day weekend and time to officially kick off two vital seasons: Football and elections. → Read More
OPINION: Fulton DA Fani Willis tries to cement image as ruffian on crime
It was a tour de force of badassery. → Read More
OPINION: The long, frustrating wait on Cheshire (Without the) Bridge Road
For the past year, Cheshire Bridge Road has been misnamed because, well, there’s no bridge there. → Read More
OPINION: Georgia is at home in the wild world of conspiracy
If conspiracies are woven into America’s social fabric, then Georgia has filled the quilt with plenty of tuft. Being in the Center of the Political Universe has ensured that Georgians experience endless waves of head-scratching absurdity. After all, we did elect the nation’s Q-Anoniest congresswoman, Marjorie Taylor Greene. → Read More