Nedra Rhone

Atlanta

Lifestyle Columnist at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Lifestyle Columnist for @ajc. Chicago native. Lover of deep house music, deep dish pizza and deep storytelling.

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Articles

Perry Greene apologized for his behavior, but what is he going to do about it?

2 weeks ago | ajc.com | Nedra Rhone

Perry Greene, the ex-husband of U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, needs your attention because he has some free speech he would like to share. On March 30, while exiting the parking lot at Avalon shopping center in Alpharetta, Greene rolled down the window of his Tesla Cybertruck to hurl expletives at a group of young women engaged in prayer. He didn’t know what country they were from, but he wanted them to go back to it, he said. It didn’t matter that they were U.S. born and raised.
In Atlanta, affordable housing is key to American dream

2 weeks ago | ajc.com | Nedra Rhone

I usually don’t answer calls from unknown numbers. But last month, I was rushing to the car and picked up a call rather than allowing it to go to voicemail. “Hello, Nedra? This is Dorice Nolan. You wrote a story about me a few years ago.”“Tell me more,” I said as I mentally ticked through past columns. Nolan described our 2022 interview about her struggle to find affordable housing in metro Atlanta. We chatted a bit before I asked the reason for her call. “I was just feeling grateful,” she said.
RHONE: Show some love for the lazy lawns in your neighborhood

3 weeks ago | macon.com | Nedra Rhone

Every year around this time, I join legions of metro Atlanta residents who scroll the neighborhood chats seeking recommendations for lawn care. Mostly, people just want someone reliable who will show up and do a decent job. It doesn't feel like it should be that hard but in almost 10 years, I've had almost as many lawn guys. Even though I am the least demanding client on Earth, I have good information that my yard isn't the easiest to maintain.
RHONE: Show some love for the lazy lawns in your neighborhood

3 weeks ago | ajc.com | Nedra Rhone

Every year around this time, I join legions of metro Atlanta residents who scroll the neighborhood chats seeking recommendations for lawn care. Mostly, people just want someone reliable who will show up and do a decent job. It doesn’t feel like it should be that hard but in almost 10 years, I’ve had almost as many lawn guys. Even though I am the least demanding client on Earth, I have good information that my yard isn’t the easiest to maintain.
Hot or not, the public demand for mug shots is high despite consequences

4 weeks ago | ajc.com | Nedra Rhone

If the name Lily Stewart doesn’t ring a bell, maybe you know the 20-year-old University of Georgia student by her new nickname, “Miss America.”Stewart, a sophomore at UGA, was arrested not once but twice this month — and charged on March 8 for speeding and again on March 23 for obstruction of a law enforcement officer and loitering/prowling. Not that anyone cares about those charges.
RHONE: In Georgia, a jury of one’s peers remains a work in progress

1 month ago | macon.com | Nedra Rhone

Keith Tharpe, once an inmate on Georgia's death row, died in 2020 of natural causes before he could be executed. Tharpe, who was convicted of murder in 1991, spent years appealing his death sentence believing he was on death row because of racial bias on the jury. A few years after the conviction in interviews with Tharpe's attorneys, one juror, Barney Gattie, said Tharpe "wasn't in the ‘good' Black folks category" and deserved to die.
In Georgia, a jury of one’s peers remains a work in progress

1 month ago | ajc.com | Nedra Rhone

Keith Tharpe, once an inmate on Georgia’s death row, died in 2020 of natural causes before he could be executed. Tharpe, who was convicted of murder in 1991, spent years appealing his death sentence believing he was on death row because of racial bias on the jury. A few years after the conviction in interviews with Tharpe’s attorneys, one juror, Barney Gattie, said Tharpe “wasn’t in the ‘good’ Black folks category” and deserved to die.
In the game of air travel, must Delta always win?

1 month ago | ajc.com | Nedra Rhone

This year, Delta Air Lines celebrates its 100th anniversary, a singular accomplishment among airlines, and though I wasn’t invited to the party, my colleague Zachary Hansen reported that Atlanta’s high society was in high spirits during a weekend gala held at the Delta Flight Museum. This milestone celebration occurred a few weeks after a Delta regional jet crash-landed and flipped over at Toronto Pearson International Airport. Fortunately, all passengers and crew survived.
The one promise I wish Donald Trump would keep

1 month ago | ajc.com | Nedra Rhone

On Sunday, when many of us awoke with feelings of jet lag brought on by daylight saving time, I had one question: Why hasn’t Donald Trump executive-ordered us out of this mess? If some Americans could vote for president based on the price of eggs, which has not gone down and is currently at $5.79 per dozen at my local store, I feel completely justified and not at all trifling in demanding that the president do something about my lack of sleep.
RHONE: Measles in Atlanta has been contained, unlike RFK Jr.’s skepticism

1 month ago | macon.com | Nedra Rhone

After the outbreak of measles in Texas that killed a child in late February, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the new Health and Human Services secretary, seemed to walk back his long-standing aversion to vaccines by noting that the best defense against measles is vaccination. But he simultaneously promoted the use of vitamin A as a supportive treatment, leading some public health officials to worry that he has undermined the importance of vaccinations and increased misinformation.