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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Byat News this hour. Though Davis coming up from fresh
beginnings to national spotlight, Georgia's newest city, Mableton is quickly
carving out its place on the national stage. This year's
US Conference of Mayors from an American mayor of Michael Owens,
was a standout's big bay fst inspiring voice on a
new way of leadership. The conversation Mayer Owens continues, but

(00:22):
first here is bin news.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
Now.

Speaker 3 (00:24):
Gun violence involving teens is taking out young lives, even
right after graduation from high school. It's happened again in Memphis, Tennessee,
where a recent shooting outside of a popular club claimed
the life of eighteen year old Cornelius Otis Junior. The
victim's mother, Barbara White. Every day day now it's like
it's okay to go around here and tell people lives
for no reason and just.

Speaker 4 (00:44):
Walk away with it.

Speaker 3 (00:45):
WHBQ reports Cornelius's funeral is set for this weekend. Ford
is telling the owners of over twenty three hundred super
duty pickup trucks from model year twenty twenty five not
to drive them. The order is due to an issue
with the hydraulic break system that can lead to break failure.
The effective models are the F two, fifty three, fifty four, fifty,
and five to fifty super duty trucks. Inflation was up

(01:06):
slightly last month. The Personal Consumption Expenditures Price Index, a
key inflation gauge used by the Federal Reserve, rose a
tenth of a percent. That puts the annual inflation rate
at two point three percent. Now back to you, Doug,
all right.

Speaker 1 (01:20):
Thanks. At this year's US Conference of Mayor's municipal leaders
from across the country came together to confront some of
the biggest issues facing urban America. Among them were many
of the nation's well known black mayors, but one new
face stood out. Michael Owens, mabeledon Georgia's first mayor. Maybeled
it is a growing, emerging city that sits right outside
of Atlanta. Welcome back to the bin, Mayor Owens. We

(01:40):
left off talking about how mayors are sharing their stories
of struggle through Trump budget cuts and how it affects
a city's overall plan to assist in issues you know
that affect our communities.

Speaker 4 (01:51):
You know, one of the good things about the US
comps some mayors is we are able to come together
and put together substative.

Speaker 2 (01:58):
Policy proposals or whethers where we're acknowledging some of the challenges,
but we're also putting for solutions, and those solutions we
formulate through the different committees.

Speaker 4 (02:08):
I'm fortunate to serve on the Housing and Community Development Committee,
where I specifically was able to put forth and co
sponsor specific resolutions that could deal with some of these issues.
You know, I could talk about, in the face of
these budget cuts and the Trump administration, what are some
of the things that we number one, most importantly, still
have to have, and then two, what are those things

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that we need to push forward, going forward and beyond. Now,
there's obviously no guarantee that some of these things are
going to happen, or that he's even going to listen
to us, or the administration is going to listen to us,
because we know that you know, a lot of people
that quite frankly, we know and trust aren't in the
administration anymore. There's so much chaos going on that we
don't know from day to day what's going to happen.

(02:51):
Or mayors are sitting around hoping that they still get
grant funding from a federal government that was problems to them,
we don't know these things right.

Speaker 1 (02:57):
Great answer. As a black mayor leading a young and
growing city, how do you see your role in shaping
you know, not just policy, but also cultural identity and
representation in your town.

Speaker 4 (03:09):
I think it's important to just lead. You know, I'm leading.
I'm forward. I'm talking about solutions that's going to take
us forward. I'm looking at our immigrant communities. I'm obviously
leading from the before a black and brown minority majority city.
But you know, as a black mayor, I try to
do what's right for everybody. I'll say that first and foremost.
But I'm also keen and attune to systemic and institutional

(03:32):
challenges and issues that we've been having. I had a
conversation with a group of people that we're talking about
how the system just continues not to work, and I said,
I like to differ in a lot of ways. The
system is working exactly as it was designed to work,
which unfortunately has placed many black and brown members of
our community at a disadvantage, and we have to acknowledge
it for what it is. But we also have to

(03:53):
push forward and put together solutions as to how we
can go.

Speaker 1 (03:56):
By Mayor Owens running out of time. Thank you so
much for stopping by BI in News this Hour. We
wish you the best. You welcome back anytime. Please keep
us up to date. We'll keep a watchful eye on
your leadership in the new town of Mabelden, Georgia. Thank you,
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