Labor Pains: Rural Access to Maternal Care in Georgia
Imagine that the…
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Ups, Downs and In-betweens
Private Equity Ban: Democratic U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock’s provision to ban institutional investors from owning large numbers of single-family homes passed the Senate as part of the ROAD to Housing Act. The act, which aims to address the lack of affordable housing,…
Ups, Downs and In-betweens
Open Seats: Georgia’s U.S. House delegation will have at least four new faces this year. U.S. Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-11) is the latest incumbent to announce he won’t seek reelection this fall. He joins Marjorie Taylor Greene, who resigned from her…
2026 Georgia Trustees
It was nearly three centuries ago, in 1732, when King George II of England appointed the first Georgia Trustees to establish the new colony of Georgia upon the principal “not for self but for others.” Centuries later, in 2008, the…
Ups, Downs and In-betweens
Fraud Alleged: State Rep. Sharon Henderson (D-Covington) has been indicted by a grand jury on two counts of theft of government funds and 10 counts of making false statements. Federal prosecutors allege she collected $17,811 in unemployment benefits from a…
2026 100 Most Influential Georgians
This year’s Georgian of the Year, Grady Health System President and CEO John Haupert, got to where he is today not only because of his years of experience and hard work, but also because of his can-do mindset. That attribute…
Remaking Downtown: From SoDo to GSU
Former U.S. Speaker of the House Tip O’Neal famously said “all politics is local” – and while that may not be true today, it still holds for development. Literally, of course, at ground level, all development is local – though…
Ups, Downs and In-betweens
Name Recognition: Primary ballots got longer in August as more candidates entered statewide races. On the Democratic side, Michael Thurmond announced his run for governor. His extensive resume includes serving as CEO of DeKalb County for two terms and as…
Gimme shelter: Atlanta’s Housing Crunch
Atlanta – and all of Georgia, really – is not alone in…
Ups, Downs and In-betweens
Forts Renamed, Again: Fort Eisenhower in Augusta is now Fort Gordon again. It’s one of nine military bases once named for Confederate leaders whose names were changed in 2023 under former President Joe Biden. Now President Donald Trump is restoring the original…
Ups Downs and In-between
Legislative Roundup: What passed and what didn’t as the 2025 legislative session ended? Gov. Brian Kemp got his signature overhaul of civil litigation, aka “tort reform,” that limits some lawsuits. It passed with little room to spare – squeaking by in…
Ups, Downs and In-betweens
Primary Challenges: Two incumbents have already drawn primary challengers for the 2026 election cycle. State Senator Emanuel Jones (D-Decatur) filed to run in the U.S. Congressional 13th District, currently represented by veteran legislator David Scott. Scott has held the Atlanta-based seat…
Ups, Downs and In-betweens
Nigut Signs Off: Veteran journalist Bill Nigut, a Chicago native who covered politics for WSB-TV from 1983 to 2023, co-hosted his last episode of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution podcast Politically Georgia on January 31. Nigut retired after a career that spanned leading two nonprofits, one of them…
2025 Georgia Trustees
In 1732, England’s King George II appointed the first Georgia Trustees to establish the new colony of Georgia, with the motto “not for self but for others.” Centuries later, in 2008, the Georgia Historical Society and the governor’s office harkened…
2025 100 Most Influential Georgians
This year’s Georgian of the Year, Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens, achieved his lifelong dream of becoming mayor in part because of his confidence and hard work, but also because of his never-give-up mindset. You tend to find similar qualities in…
2025 Georgian of the Year | Andre Dickens, Mayor of Atlanta
It was the job he always wanted – but first there was a hurdle to get over. No problem for the Georgia Tech grad who approaches every challenge with an engineer’s mindset. Still, when Andre Dickens won the runoff for…
True Connectors: Downtown’s Stitch and Buckhead’s HUB404
Atlanta’s Connector – the infamous, traffic-clogged stretch…
Resurrecting Hope in Mental Health in Georgia
Kevin Tanner, commissioner of the Georgia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities, remembers that when the historic Mental Health Parity Act was passed in 2022, the chief champion of the legislation, the late House Speaker David Ralston, stood at…
2024 TravelBlazers
July is traditionally high travel season – kids are out of school, vacation days are pending…
Breast Cancer Breakthroughs
Alicia Arnold was just finishing her third year of medical school when she found…
Catching up with… Tim Denning
Tim Denning became president and CEO of the Georgia Research Alliance (GRA) in November. These are edited highlights from two interviews. What’s your elevator speech about GRA? I try to keep it really simple and say that GRA helps to…
2024 Economic Yearbook
Fiscal Year 2024, which began last July, is proving to be yet another period of strong growth and development, especially in the e-mobility, clean tech and energy sectors. “A reliable energy grid, maintained by the state’s utility companies, keeps Georgia…
2024 Georgia Trustees: Dr. Louis Sullivan and Carol Tomé
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2024 100 Most Influential Georgians
This year’s Georgian of the Year, Ed Bastian, is the classic example of leadership, strength and resilience. Such attributes no doubt helped him rise to the position where he is today. So it’s probably no surprise these same qualities can…
Moving Innovation Beyond the Walls
If you think of research as something that happens in an ivory tower in Athens (or Augusta, or on Atlanta’s North Avenue…
(Re)making Places
Babysitter. First employer. Fashion consultant. Social director. If you were a suburban kid in the ’70s and ’80s, the local mall likely filled at least one of those roles – maybe all, depending on the day you went there. That…
A New Ballgame
Josh Dallas comes from a football family. The wide receiver at Georgia Southern University played on a state championship high school team with his twin brother, a quarterback now also at Georgia Southern. Their dad was the coach. Dallas remembers…
2023 Travelblazers
A newly branded beer in College Park. A re-created farmhouse turned into a visual arts gallery in Woodstock. A Christmas lights spectacular in Macon. A kayak vending machine in Gainesville. A farmers market beautiful enough to hold wedding receptions in…
Ramping Up the Fight
Timothy Ratliff had no idea he had lung cancer, and neither did the doctor who did his hernia surgery in 2017. A complication after surgery – a blood clot in his leg – led the retired Navy veteran to the…
Spotlight on Small Business Triumphs
When we hear that Georgia is pro-business or that it has claimed the title of top state to do business for…
2023 Economic Yearbook: Transforming the Terrain
If Fiscal Year 2023, which began last July, were a feature-length movie, it would certainly be a blockbuster: “The best year ever,” according to the Georgia Department of Economic Development. The impact of this banner year is transforming the state’s…
Metro Atlanta: Still on the Rise
Atlanta knows a thing or two about transforming its terrain. The city, as boastful as usual, proclaims it right there in its official seal – featuring a phoenix, symbol of renewal and growth, emerging from flames, capped by the word…
Why Georgia is one of best states to launch a business
Starting your own business is never easy. But it might be a little easier in Georgia than almost anywhere else in the U.S. Job search website Lensa recently ranked Georgia the No. 2 best state in which to launch a…
Growing Tech in Georgia
One of the best decisions Michael Malakhov made as a startup entrepreneur was influenced by something that’s quintessentially Atlanta: traffic. Malakhov and cofounder Eric Morris decided to house their company, Carpool Logistics, in Atlanta Tech Village (ATV), a “tech hub”…
Georgia Trustees: Donna Hyland and Dan Amos
Non Sibi Sed Aliis. The translation from Latin means “not for self, but for others.” It’s the motto of the first Georgia Trustees who were charged in 1732 by England’s King George II with establishing the new colony of Georgia.…
2023 Georgian of the Year: Successfully Selling the State
It was 2010 and Gov. Sonny Perdue’s last legislative session had ended. And Pat Wilson was tired. He’d served as director of government affairs, promoting the legislative agenda of the first Republican elected governor in Georgia since Reconstruction, for the…
Q&A with Verónica Maldonado-Torres
Verónica Maldonado-Torres, president of the Georgia Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, knows firsthand the struggles and triumphs of being a small business owner. Not only is she the founder of a consulting firm that helps small businesses increase sales and maximize…
How healthy are we?
Georgia ranks 36th among states in United Health Foundation’s 2022 America's Health Rankings. The report analyzes overall health represented by 51 measures across five categories, including social and economic factors, physical environment, behaviors, clinical care and health outcomes. UHF, a private…
Two new college and career academies announced
New college and career academies will be established in Dooly and Monroe counties, Gov. Brian Kemp announced last week. That will bring the total across the state to 57, where the existing academies are already serving more than 45,00 high…
Registration open for Georgia Logistics Summit
Not that you need another reason to visit Savannah in the spring, but you can now register for the Georgia Logistics Summit, held at the Savannah Convention Center March 8, 2023. The summit will examine how Georgia’s ports touch every…
A Drive to Thrive
For Verónica Maldonado-Torres, the goal in business and in life is to thrive. It’s part of a trademarked mindset and approach – “Driven to Thrive” – she made the centerpiece of her consulting company, VMT Consulting, and now of her…
Georgia ports continue to drive economy
Another month, another (near) record. That’s becoming a familiar story at the Georgia Ports Authority, which reported its second-busiest month in October, when the Port of Savannah handled 552,800 twenty-foot equivalent container units. That’s an increase of 9.6% compared to…
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Civil Rights Center expands
Atlanta’s National Center for Civil and Human Rights is well more than halfway toward its capital campaign goal of $50 million that will add two wings to the downtown building. The Center broke ground on the new additions in October;…
A new IDEA for Black and Hispanic engineers
Over some 50 years, the Dual Degree Engineering Program at the Atlanta University Center Consortium has had a mission to graduate more Black engineers. A new $1.5 million investment gives that mission a boost by helping create a new national…
Art that moves in Macon
Transportation is crucial to Georgia’s success and helps it claim titles like the No. 1 state to do business – but it’s not every day that a transit authority in the state wins a cultural award. That’s what happened in…
Georgia leads in public health research
When it was announced in October that the Georgia Clinical & Translational Science Alliance (CTSA), a group of Georgia universities, had received a $58.6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to continue to improve the health of the…
Pursuing Premier Public Health
COVID showed us just how vulnerable we are to emerging infectious diseases – not to mention health inequities and underlying conditions that made infected people sicker. But the pandemic also showed us how collaboration could fuel a quick and innovative…
Best in the (music) business
You hear about MBA programs all the time. What about an MEBUS? That stands for music and entertainment business program, and Kennesaw State University’s is one of the best in the world. Don’t just take it from us – Billboard…
Gilded ghouls at Jekyll Island
Georgians know Jekyll Island’s history is full of glitz and glitter – but ghouls and ghosts? You can judge for yourself with a paranormal history tour that delves into the isle’s Gilded Age past. Gilded Ghosts & Ghouls brings Halloween…
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